This is the first promotional image of Andrew Garfield as Spiderman, all up in his Spidey suit and everything. The lycra doesn’t leave much to the imagination, does it? Spiderdong… would it have killed them to give Andrew some extra padding down there or something? But other than that, I think he looks good. He’s got that skinny, lanky, tall, broad-shouldered thing that I end up falling for over and over. Add to that my affection for nervous, neurotic boys, and Andrew is pretty much every guy I ever dated from the ages of 17 to 24.

The NY Times had a wonderful piece on Andrew yesterday too. He was talking mostly about how tired he is from the frenetic awards season pace he was keeping, but he also gave some wonderful quotes about his work in The Social Network:

“I was working yesterday in L.A. and I flew on a jet with David Fincher so we could be here tonight and today,” Mr. Garfield said at the lunch at the Four Seasons. “We were in separate places and we converged on the plane for our flight, landed at 4 a.m., went on the ‘Today’ show and then here.” He admitted to being a bit bleary-eyed and wore what looked like a well-loved plaid shirt. “I’m trying to not have any idea about what’s happening,” he added, of his schedule. “I’m just being led to things.”

Much has been made of the relative youth of the cast (Mr. Garfield and Mr. Eisenberg are both 27). Did they feel like neophytes when they were making the movie?

“Only when the lawyers came in,” Mr. Garfield said. “Until then it just felt like we were making a movie. But then when we started doing the deposition scenes, I think we all started to feel like kids. Which I think is apropos, because it is a story about young people taking over the world and forgetting that they are young people and then they’re in litigation, which they know nothing about, and they have to be adults. I felt that transition, that we felt like we were rulers of our own world and then suddenly we were kids throwing our toys out.”

For Mr. Garfield — a smooth talker, bleary-eyed or not, who grew up in England, where he attended a theater conservatory – playing a brainy and ambitious foreign-born college student was more of a stretch than playing a superhero, he said. “It’s not about putting on a mask and moving my body differently,” he said. “I have to feel like I am that person, I have to search inside as opposed to out and uncover the aspects I need to uncover to do the character just as it’s written.”

For “The Social Network,” he drew on his character’s Brazilian roots. “Eduardo is freer in his body,” he said. “He’s more open in his body because of his culture. So I did a lot of capoeira before we shot and every morning I’d dance in my trailer, I’d put on samba music and dance.”

[From The New York Times]

I would pay good money to see this boy shake his slender hips. What? Don’t give me that look.

By the way, here’s the cover of Details with Andrew… he has certain angles, doesn’t he? He photographs well when it’s a formal photo shoot. On the red carpet, the boy’s a hot mess.

Header PR image courtesy of Columbia. Details cover courtesy of Socialite Life, and additional pic courtesy of WENN.