The new production of Angels in America, which runs nearly eight hours, opened in early May with Garfield and Nathan Lane fronting the cast. The revival, which premiered two months ago on the 25th anniversary of its 1992 opening in San Francisco, has garnered largely flattering attention for its starry cast and contemporary resonance.īut on Monday, Garfield became the subject of slightly less congratulatory attention for telling a panel discussion audience he is living as a gay man right now-“just without the physical act.” Which, you know, isn’t really how it works. As the star of a new production of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, actor Andrew Garfield, erstwhile Spider-Man and lover of Disneyland and pot brownies, plays Prior Walter, a gay man diagnosed with AIDS in mid-1980s New York City.
