Two years after they first went viral for awkwardly flirting on the red carpet, Andrew Garfield finally appeared on Amelia Dimoldenberg’s YouTube show, Chicken Shop Date. It’s just as charming as we all hoped it would be. Sometimes, we can have nice things.
If you aren’t familiar with Amelia’s interview style, her shtick is being awkward and somewhat blunt. Andrew has said in the past that he’s a longtime fan of Chicken Shop Date, so he came prepared. He gave as good as he got, cracked up a bunch of times, flirted his ass off, and even caught Amelia off guard by suggesting that if they weren’t appearing on a fake date for the show, there was a chance they could have actually gone out on a real date, away from the cameras.
On Friday, Oscar-nominated actor Andrew Garfield finally appeared on Amelia Dimoldenberg’s latest episode of “Chicken Shop Date,” her popular long-running YouTube interview show that takes place, date-style, over a meal at a local chicken shop in London.
The pair’s chat comes two years after their very first meet-cute sent the internet into a frenzy, and the result lives up to the hype – in their latest chat, Garfield and Dimoldenberg vacillated between leaning into the gimmick of the interview and their seemingly real chemistry, with a lot of giggling sprinkled in.
“I think that we… There’s something going on,” Dimoldenberg told Garfield in the clip. “To the point where you’ve been avoiding me for two years because the vibes are too much for you to handle.”
Acknowledging that they’ve “had a couple of lovely interactions,” Garfield went on to say he genuinely thinks that they could have really gone on an actual date “if it weren’t for” them being on her show.
“Take out all the practicalities and the logic,” he said. “I actually believe that, maybe, we could’ve” gone on a real date, off camera.
The obvious current of electricity between Garfield and Dimoldenberg has had the internet hungry for more after footage of several flirtatious encounters between the two went viral online.
As the lore goes, the connection between them began two years ago when they had a flirty encounter on the 2022 British GQ Men of the Year party’s red carpet, a moment captured by cameras and posted online.
They met again on the January 2023 red carpet for the Golden Globes, where they giggled and flirted, further fueling the internet’s fervor for the potential coupling when Garfield joked he can’t come on her show for a “date” because “I’m scared of what it could turn into.”
Dimoldenberg has accrued millions of views on her videos, having interviewed everyone from Jennifer Lawrence to Billie Eilish to Jack Harlow. She’s known for her comedic style of turning awkward moments into engaging and charming conversations.
The show’s format may be a gimmicky “date,” and we suppose it makes sense that Garfield would choose now to come on her show while he’s been busy promoting his latest film “We Live in Time.” Still, the actor seems keen to leave room for a perhaps authentic romantic connection with “Chicken Shop’s” host to blossom. By the end of Friday’s episode, Garfield said that they should consider this interview “date” to be just “a practice round.”
“I feel we should do it again actually,” Garfield said. “And better.”
That moment where he throws it out there that this could have just been a real date instead of a TV one was great, but so was the entire interview. My favorite part was when Amelia asks Andrew who he would “Snog, Marry, Avoid” out of Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire, or herself, and he picks her to avoid. Their exchange over Andrew never winning an Academy Award was hilarious too. (Andrew admits that at one point, winning an Oscar was important to him but he’s sort of let it go at this point. I guess that Golden Globe, Tony, and BAFTA helped him feel better.) Oh, and also, I did not realize that Andrew is 41! That man does not look a day over 30.
Like I said, it was a very charming, fun interview and Andrew handled himself really well. It’s cool that shows like Chicken Shop Date and Hot Ones can now qualify for Emmy Awards. These content creators really put the work in to deliver fun interviews in a clever, creative way. They deserve more recognition for all of the great content they give us. You can watch Amelia and Andrew’s Chicken Shop Date here:
Photos via YouTube and credit: Justin Ng / Avalon, IMAGO/Clemens Niehaus / Avalon
I haven’t watched this yet but I just heard an interview with him and he’s just so charming and interesting and sweet. He’s also apparently newly single so maybe these two will take it beyond the show.
I found it charming, but…somehow I also got the ick. I can’t really figure out why. Maybe because kept trying to break through the act..trying to point out that it is a fake date. It made me feel like he disrespected her work environment, and it felt a tiny bit condescending. I don’t know.
To me it feels like he is trying very hard to be likeable (and he does it well) but the sense doesn’t sit well with me personally.
FWIW that feeling is due to my own negative experiences with people who are obviously trying to be charming for nefarious reasons, nothing to do with AF specifically.
He’s seems like a charming and lovely human. He and Amelia would be super cute together. As would he and Florence Pugh — they’re so adorable in all of the press for their new film.
I thought it was uncomfortable, too. He was a bit manipulative, like Oh this could’ve been something but you blew it. A) I don’t think he really meant that and B) if he did, she didn’t blow it by interviewing him, that wasn’t fair. It takes two to tango and let’s not forgetting he is using this press to promote his own work.
I love Andrew but he is definitely well aware of the comments and knew how much the public would ‘stan’ playing up to a romance, even if it was in a jokey way.
Her show is a gimmick and they both were in on the joke. If being charming and likeable is now something to be wary of, then we’re all doomed.
This interview, along with the one with Lando Norris, are my faves. It’s always more fun when they’re in on the joke.
I like that she friend zoned him. I like Andrew but I do think there is some fuck boi energy about him. No woman needs that kind of energy, life is too short for that mess.