Andrew Garfield ; Inset: Christine Obanor and Demari Kevin Winter/Getty Images ; inset: Netflix
Andrew Garfield being a closet fan of Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle makes Us feel less guilty about binge-watching every season.
“My guilty pleasure is Too Hot to Handle on Netflix,” Garfield, 41, said in his Friday, January 3, profile for W magazine. “F—, it’s really good. Sorry, this is like my pitch for people who haven’t seen Too Hot to Handle.”
He continued, “So, they get to the island and they’re like, ‘Woo!’ in their swimming costumes. … Then, like a day goes by and they have a party, maybe a couple of them will make out, maybe there’ll be some fellatio, I don’t know, like, it’s up to them. And then it’s revealed to them they are in fact on Too Hot to Handle.”
Garfield goes on to explain that there is a “prize pot of money” that contestants — described by host Desiree Burch as sex-crazed singles who aren’t interested in securing anything remotely resembling a long-term relationship — only win “if [they] don’t f— each other.”
Andrew Garfield has some thoughts on dating in Hollywood after years of high-profile relationships. The actor, 41, appeared on Amelia Dimoldenberg’s viral Chicken Shop Date interview series on Friday, October 18, during which he questioned the host whether she thinks she could actually find “the one” for her on the show. “Yeah. Do you not?” […]
“It’s run by this Alexa kind of robot figure [named Lana], and she says like, ‘You’ve all been selected because you are terrified of intimacy and you are terrified of making true emotional connections. You will be here for a week, and if you do anything physically with each other that is not born out of a true emotional connection, you will be fined,’”
Garfield explained, putting on his best robotic Lana voice. “Suddenly, it’s like all these really horny [and] maybe sex-addicted people are having to not do anything sexual unless they are given permission by Alana.”
According to Garfield, it becomes an “amazing thing” when each couple begins to actually open up.
“It’s beautiful,” he mused. “And you see these people start to reveal their traumas and start to reveal that they haven’t trusted men because of a trauma in their family life or in a previous relationship. Guys who are just bro’d out that they can’t access their hearts because of the hurt [they’ve felt] and suddenly they’re softening and they’re vulnerable and, of course, they’re terrified of doing it.”
Garfield added, “Then, of course, everyone around them is very encouraging and it becomes a very beautiful thing.”
Netflix has aired six seasons of the dating show since its April 2020 debut. A handful of couples who have appeared on the prorgam are still together, including season 2’s Emily Miller and Cam Holmes, who welcomed son Reggie in 2024.
Bri Balram and Demari Davis, for their part, won season 6, which aired in August 2024.
“We actually have not got paid yet,” Balram,” 26, told Us Weekly exclusively at the time. “They didn’t want us to go, like, elope and spend the money, so we haven’t got paid yet.”
It is not known whether Balram and Davis, 27, have received their prize money yet, but they are still a couple.
Too Hot to Handle is streaming on Netflix.
