Andrew Garfield’s “lawyer up” scene in The Social Community is among the movie’s most memorable moments. Eleven years after the Oscar-winning film got here out in theaters, Garfield nonetheless has followers referencing his well-known “lawyer up, a**hole” line. In a current interview, the actor revealed the grueling course of behind the scene. And contemplating the truth that it’s a David Fincher film, it ought to come as no shock that he had to movie it 40 instances.
Andrew Garfield’s ‘lawyer up’ scene in ‘The Social Network’
Garfield performed Eduardo Saverin in The Social Community, one of many founders of Fb who was shut associates with Mark Zuckerberg, performed by Jesse Eisenberg. The movie depicts the creation of the social media platform, from its beginnings at Harvard College all the way in which up to Saverin’s lawsuit in opposition to Zuckerberg.
In its climactic scene, Garfield’s character visits the Fb workplace in California the place learns he’s being pushed out of the corporate. He instantly confronts Mark and Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) in entrance of the remainder of the corporate. Garfield smashes a laptop computer earlier than delivering a few of The Social Community‘s finest traces.
“Sorry, my Prada’s at the cleaners along with my hoodie and my f***-you flip-flops you pretentious douchebag,” Garfield yells at Timberlake and Eisenberg.
In one of the best second of the whole film (let’s name a spade a spade right here), Garfield says to Eisenberg:
“And I’ll bet what you hated the most is that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook—which I am! You better lawyer up, a**hole, ‘cause I’m not comin’ back for my 30 percent, I’m comin’ back for everything!”
The scene ends with Garfield leaning in to punch the scared Timberlake, to which Garfield responds, “I like standing next to you, Sean. It makes me look so tough.”
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Andrew Garfield’s ‘The Social Network’ ‘lawyer up’ scene was an extended day of filming
Fincher is understood for making his actors do a whole lot of takes for one scene. And it doesn’t all the time go properly. (Zodiac star Jake Gyllenhaal actually didn’t prefer it.) However Garfield stated the exhausting course of makes for compelling scenes.
Sharing what he remembers of filming the “you set me up” scene in The Social Community, Garfield informed Collider:
“Jesse, laptop smash, that day, that long goddamn day, and Fincher being such a good dad that day. He was the perfect sports dad. He was instilling me with, ‘Keep doing it, and you can keep doing it, believe that you can keep doing… I know I’m going to ask you to do this a lot, and your voice is going to be tired, and your heart is going to be tired, and your body’s going to be exhausted, and I know you’re going to hate me, and that’s OK, because we are going to get it absolutely perfect.’”
Garfield informed Vanity Fair in 2011 the laptop computer smash took 13 takes alone. And he informed Collider filming his closeups took round 40 takes. However Fincher’s management received him by way of it. He stated:
“At the end, instead of saying, ‘We’re moving on,’ I was sat on the floor after take 35, 40 of my closeup of that scene, which you can imagine would have been a lot of screaming and agony. And I’m sat on the floor, just wiped, exhausted, thinking we’re probably going to go again another 10 times. He just walks up to me, up that corridor from this monitor, and he puts his hand out to me and pulls me up and shakes my hand, and he says, ‘Moving on.’ And that was that.”
(*40*)
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Andrew Garfield perfected the scene with improvisation
Whereas Fincher’s directing model could also be tiresome, Garfield discovered it extremely rewarding.
“That was a beautiful moment,” he stated of finishing the grueling scene. “I felt very gratified. Leaving it all in the field. That was a beautiful day. I loved it.”
The numerous totally different takes additionally made Garfield change up the supply of his traces to hold issues attention-grabbing. Whereas his iconic “you better lawyer up, a**hole” line was in Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar-winning script, Garfield informed Buzzfeed it was his thought to whisper it. And it made the road simpler.
“The cool thing about that movie [is that] my love [for] Jesse Eisenberg and the relationship we created for that film meant that I wanted that line to hurt more than if I [had] shouted it,” he stated. “I wanted it to be lodged in his f***ing soul.”
Appears prefer it labored.