Garfield, for his part, noted that he had a “big spell of unemployment” before he found stardom with The Social Network, Hacksaw Ridge and Silence. So, in retrospect, I’m not unhappy with the decision and I think he did a beautiful job.”īarnes, 40, went on to appear in the 2008 film and a sequel two years later. “Ben Barnes is a very handsome, talented man. “She eventually just broke under my incessant nagging, and she was like, ‘It’s because they don’t think you’re handsome enough, Andrew,'” he recalled. The Marvel actor recalled being a major contender for the role of Prince Caspian, saying, “I think it was down to me and him, and I remember I was obsessed.”Īfter the Tick, Tick…Boom! star didn’t land the job, he continued to ask his agent about the rejection. “I auditioned for Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia and I thought, ‘This could be it, this could be it.’ And that handsome, brilliant actor Ben Barnes ended up getting the role.” “I remember I was so desperate,” Garfield, 38, said during an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Saturday, January 8.
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