Andrew Garfield is opening up about what he called a “miserable” time making “The Uprising.”
Speaking on Monday’s episode of the “SmartLess” podcast, the actor was quick to explain that the hardship of shooting the Paul Greengrass film — a drama centered on England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt — was the “best possible” version of misery.
The Golden Globe winner looked back on filming in Munich last year with a cast that included Tommy Hollander, Jamie Bell and others.
Garfield said the production used Germany in part because “there’s a lot of medieval architecture still” there, noting that much of the shoot took place in a single field in Munich that stood in for multiple peasant fields. “It was miserable,” he recalled.
Co-host Jason Bateman responded with a joke about the rugged conditions, saying a peasant war movie did not sound like the kind of production that would come with many luxuries.
Garfield, who could be heard laughing, joked that “Chuck Schumer [was] definitely not waiting for him on a yacht on any kind of port” after wrapping shooting.
He went on, however, to rave over the director as an “incredible filmmaker.”
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The Emmy nominee called Greengrass, 71, “one of those team captains that kind of makes you want to suffer for him … because he’s driving.”
Garfield’s comments come on the heels of online backlash over his hopes that billionaires are “scared s–tless” of the project.
During a Los Angeles film screening Thursday, the Tony winner said he wanted the movie to be “galvanizing” to audience members.
“I hope there’s some awakening that people feel … that we all feel like our own struggles are being reflected in the struggles of these characters from a distant time and place and that it could be directive,” he said.
Spencer Pratt, the “Hills” alum and former candidate for mayor in Los Angeles, blasted Garfield’s statement via X.
“You mean … like the billionaires who greenlight your movies and stroke all your multi-million dollar paychecks? Or they good?” the former reality star, 43, tweeted.
“Ironically, Garfield just got paid like $5M for playing billionaire Sam Altman in ‘Artificial,’” Pratt added.
Garfield has yet to comment on the controversy.