Entitled to their wrong opinion? Andrew Garfield revealed that although he was in the running for a role in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, he was later told that his looks led to him losing the part to Ben Barnes.“I remember I was so desperate,” Garfield, 38, said during an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Saturday, January 8. “I auditioned for Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia and I thought, ‘This could be it, this could be it.’ And that handsome, brilliant actor Ben Barnes ended up getting the role.”The Marvel actor recalled being a major contender for the role of Prince Caspian, saying, “I think it was down to me and him, and I remember I was obsessed.”After the Tick, Tick…Boom!
star didn’t land the job, he continued to ask his agent about the rejection.“She eventually just broke under my incessant nagging, and she was like, ‘It’s because they don’t think you’re handsome enough, Andrew,'” he recalled. “Ben Barnes is a very handsome, talented man.
So, in retrospect, I’m not unhappy with the decision and I think he did a beautiful job.”Barnes, 40, went on to appear in the 2008 film and a sequel two years later.
Garfield, for his part, noted that he had a “big spell of unemployment” before he found stardom with The Social Network, Hacksaw Ridge and Silence.The California native continued to rise to fame when he played Peter Parker in the Spider-Man reboot in 2012.
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