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Andrew Garfield thinks landing the role of Spider-Man is like "any other acting job".

The star who shot to fame in ‘The Social Network’ revealed that ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ wasn’t his dream job after all.

He told the Radio Times magazine: "To achieve what you set out to achieve and realise it’s not what you want, it’s disappointing.

"This role had been something I’d always, always wanted to do. Then you realise it’s like any other acting job."

He continued to explain that he probably never be entirely happy as far as his career is concerned.

He added: "Some days it’s great, others you feel lost. And I’d always felt that if I got certain roles then I’d be set for life, emotionally, professionally. It would be Utopia.

"But you never get to Utopia. The dream has become reality."

Andrew said that producers now handed him roles as a short-cut to getting their movies made.

He joked: "It seems flattering but it isn’t. It’s like: ‘Are you kidding me? I can’t actually play a 50-year-old black, male prostitute."

"I wasn’t offered that… but it’s scary, being treated so nicely. Maybe it’s seductive if you believe in it. I don’t, I see it for what it is."

The actor, who was bullied at primary school, said that playing 17-year-old high school geek Peter Parker "wasn’t actually much of a stretch".

He explained: "It’s a horrible time of your life. But I still feel like I’m in that chapter. I’m unsure, insecure, awkward in my body."
 

Andrew Garfield once pretended his mother had died to stop himself being mugged.

The ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ star was "desperate" to avoid being robbed in the street as a student, and his tactic worked because his would-be attacker began comforting him instead.

He said: "I was in London, going to my girlfriend’s, and this guy caught me and told me to empty my pockets and I was so desperate I lied and said, ‘Listen, I’ve just come from my mother’s funeral.’

"It was an awful thing to say, but it worked and made him see me, and he sat on the steps with me for 10 minutes instead, comforting me."

However, the actor admits he has never told his mother about his lie and thinks she would be "heartbroken" if she found out.

He added: "I’ve never told my mum about that and it might really upset her. She’d be heartbroken"

Andrew was bullied at school and still doesn’t understand why he was singled out for such a long period.

He told GQ magazine: "I was bullied because I was very confused when I first went to school and there was a kid who was just mean and I didn’t understand it, and right into my teenage years when I was mugged on the street, or when I was 17,18 and in drama school and wouldn’t be able to do anything because there’d be three or four of them and they’d take my wallet, and I’m come home feeling so disempowered and so angry."