Andrew Garfield Will Bring You to Tears as He Recalls His Late Mother: ‘I Hope This Grief Stays With Me’ (Video)
on Monday night’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” sharing a story with the host about how he was able to use his performance as Jonathan Larsen in Netflix’s “tick, tick… Boom!” to honor her.Garfield lost this mother, Lynn, who died of pancreatic cancer, in 2019, and during his interview segment on “The Late Show,” Colbert asked the actor if his art helped him grieve.Garfield then launched into a lengthy and heartfelt response, explaining how being in the Netflix film about the life and tragic too-soon death of “Rent” creator and songwriter Jonathan Larson helped him pay a meaningful tribute to his mom.