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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Kai Grady

What did he meme? Andrew Garfield explains that viral Oscar photo

LOS ANGELES — Andrew Garfield confirmed that he was doing exactly what everyone thought in that viral photo from this year’s Academy Awards: texting his friends about the infamous Oscars slap.

“I feel so bad because Kevin Costner’s introducing the director nominees in the most beautiful and elegant way, and I’m like, ‘There’s no way I’m going to be on camera during this,’” the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” star said Thursday on “The View.”

Garfield — who was nominated for best actor alongside Will Smith — said that his phone was blowing up after the shocking moment onstage.

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