Andrew Garfield Reacts to the Internet’s Response to His Viral Glasses Look on Golden Globes Stage

Andrew Garfield didn’t intentionally mean to make the internet obsess over his onstage look at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards.

While speaking with MTV’s Josh Horowitz, the After the Hunt actor was asked whether he knew of his “power” onstage at the Jan. 5 awards show where, while presenting, he put on glasses and wore his shirt partly unbuttoned.

Garfield disagreed and said he could give the “exact play by play” of what was circling in his mind to prove that it wasn’t as “sexy” as the internet thinks it was.

“Everyone else was projecting something entirely different,” Garfield said before explaining what was going through his mind while presenting alongside Kerry Washington.

He said prior to taking the stage he felt “relaxed,” however that changed when walking out.

“You’re surrounded by your peers and other people you admire and have admired since you were a child,” he said. “Your heart starts racing and you start feeling this kind of unbridled terror.”

Intent on hitting the correct stage mark and speaking at his right turn, Garfield said it was then that he realized that he couldn’t see what was written on the teleprompter.

“’Oh fuck. I can’t actually see the fucking teleprompter. Did I bring my — [glasses]? Yes, they’re in my right hand. Put the glasses on. Okay, great, now I can see,’ ” he said of his thoughts as he put on his glasses.

His then recalled thinking, “’Oh shit, this shirt is too open. I do not want to give people this much of my flesh.’”

Garfield said that when he attempted to close his shirt, it just opened wider. “I’m like ‘Okay, just breathe.’ I breathe, and that makes me do a facial thing. I don’t know.”

 “And then, everyone thinks I’m trying to be sexy. But in truth, neurosis is, I guess, kinda sexy ultimately.” 

Towards the end of the interview, Garfield added, “My astigmatism is fucking me up right now. Okay, I can kind of see, but now I see too much chest.”

The look sparked reactions online of people (one user tweeted, “BREAKING NEWS: Andrew Garfield in his reading glasses just received a 55 minute standing ovation from me in my bed room.”) with even the Globes seemingly poking fun sharing a montage of Garfield onstage and on the red carpet with the caption, “All eyes on Andrew Garfield.”