‘Breathe’ Star Andrew Garfield on Finding Hope in ‘a Place of Near Apocalypse’
Robin Cavendish couldn’t use his body. Couldn’t caress his wife or pick up his son, couldn’t scratch his nose or shoo a fly. He had some control of his facial muscles but no control of his breathing, which was regulated by a machine. And none of those things struck Andrew Garfield, who plays Cavendish in the Andy Serkis movie “Breathe,” as any kind of acting challenge.
“I only thought of it as a life challenge,” said Garfield, who co-stars with Claire Foy in the decades-spanning biopic of the man who became a pioneering advocate for the disabled after being paralyzed by polio.