Andrew Garfield says straight actors playing gay characters helps foster 'empathic imagination'

Forbidding straight actors from playing gay characters would mean "the death of empathic imagination," The Amazing Spider-Man and Tick, Tick...Boom! actor Andrew Garfield said in an interview with The Telegraph published Monday. As part of the profile, Garfield was asked about his performance in a 2017 stage production of Angels in America, "in which he played Prior Walter, a prophetic gay AIDS patient," and about whether he believes straight actors should portray gay characters. "I think it's t...