Andrew Garfield opened up about his past drug use.

“Drugs… The word has such a stigma,” he recently mused to the Evening Standard, while admitting he spent a day last year eating hash brownies at Disneyland. “I can only really take substances if it’s a ritual,” he said. “I mean, weed, I can smoke because it’s just nice. But with hallucinogens, I have to do it in a very conscious way in a place where I feel free and safe and can have a freak out if I want to. I want to be able to express my insights.”

“That’s what makes it so beguiling and so addictive,” he said. “You get to be bigger than what you are. You get to hold more than you. You get this divine dissatisfaction.”

In regards to his play, Angels in America:

“Everyone’s in a spiritual emergency in that play. Even though we’re playing make-believe, your body doesn’t know it’s not real. I reached burnout halfway through,” he added. “I’d be dragged to the theatre kicking and screaming on some occasions. I have a tendency to the dramatic and I have a tendency towards the pathetic. There was a scary dissonance. I had felt, intellectually and viscerally, that this is as good as it gets. So, for that to be worn out of me, I felt guilty and ashamed. It’s never going to get better than this and here I am not wanting to do it.”