--- description: Find out why Andrew Garfield is one of the 100 most influential people of 2022. title: Andrew Garfield: The 100 Most Influential People of 2022 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a0f1c56cc5c0e6/698a3208457a52fa3ed6674d/Andrew-Garfield-time100-2022.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- May 23, 2022 # Andrew Garfield by Martin Scorsese  33367\_KMC\_GQ\_008\_12 001 33367\_KMC\_GQ\_008\_12 001Katie McCurdy Casting the lead in my [adaptation of _Silence_](https://time.com/4664990/martin-scorsese-silence/ "undefined") was not easy: the role was demanding on every level. When [Andrew Garfield](https://time.com/4547317/andrew-garfield-hacksaw-ridge/ "undefined") came to audition, I could see right away that he understood the character of Rodrigues. He gave all of himself to the role. In preparation, he actually completed the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, which is quite an undertaking. Once we started work, I understood that Andrew could get to any emotional level the story called for, sometimes immediately. I developed a sense of confidence and trust in him that I’ve found all too rarely. Quite often, when we were getting ready to shoot one of the many emotionally difficult scenes that Andrew and I had painstakingly worked on for months, I found myself checking in with him, seeing that he had gotten himself into the zone, and then just leaving him be. Sometimes I just listened. I knew that he was giving the moment exactly what it needed. He’s a remarkable artist, one of the greats of his generation. _Scorsese is an Oscar-­winning filmmaker_ Andrew Garfield Is on the 2022 TIME 100 List ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177784/andrew-garfield/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177784/andrew-garfield/"},"headline":"Andrew Garfield","datePublished":"2022-05-23T10:25:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:35.403Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177784/andrew-garfield/","keywords":["TIME 100","franchise","TIME100 2022"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a0f1c56cc5c0e6/698a3208457a52fa3ed6674d/Andrew-Garfield-time100-2022.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a0f1c56cc5c0e6/698a3208457a52fa3ed6674d/Andrew-Garfield-time100-2022.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177784/andrew-garfield/","name":"Andrew Garfield"}}]}] ```