- And you know, cut to..
We're married.
The mother of my children.
That's not true.
We had a really good time together.
Little did you know I was on hallucinogens.
I'm Andrew Garfield.
These are my 10 essential cool things.
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Oh God, you wanna start with the ring?
This is a really sentimental symbol
that is in memory of my mother
with a little bunny rabbit engraved.
I've only worn it once
to the Oscars
because for the first time I was nominated for an Oscar,
she was there with me with my dad
and she passed away a couple of years ago
and she wasn't able to come with us.
And I wanted something with me
so that she could have some physical, symbolic presence.
She was someone that could find beauty and meaning
in this most invisible, diminutive things.
And I think she always identified
with something in the rabbit.
She would fantasize about becoming a rabbit
and hanging out with the rabbits
that are the bottom of our garden.
And maybe some days she does get to go
and just kind of hang out down there
with her rabbit folk, maybe.
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Now I dunno if anyone knows Vlaad Chvátil
who created Codenames.
[laughing]
But it's a great game that I got
into about five or six years ago and like
so whenever me and a certain group of friends are together
we will make sure that this happens.
And it's just a really fun, fun time.
And Bananagrams, you know,
it's Bananagrams
and you can play on your own I discovered,
which is a sad state of affairs.
But I've done it a few times on a flight.
I remember.
Now this is a story that maybe I shouldn't tell.
[laughing]
Cause usually on a flight I keep to myself.
But for this trip I think I microdosed
I did a little bit of mushrooms
and it took away a kind of layer of
self consciousness or shyness.
And I just started playing Bananagrams on my own
on my little pullout table.
And I ended up asking the person next to me
if she wanted to play.
And we had this really wonderful long game
of Bananagrams and you know, cut to
we are married
[laughing]
and the mother of my children.
That's not true.
But it was a really, really nice flight.
We had a really good time together.
Little did you know, I was on hallucinogens
so she was getting a very specific version
of me in real life.
Real life.
What is real life Vlaad Chvátil?
You tell us.
[soft hip hop music]
This is self-explanatory.
I feel, I feel like everyone has their own
$150 ping pong paddle.
[laughing]
This is my luxury item on my Desert Island Discs.
Just playing ping pong on my own wherever I am.
I never thought I would be someone who
owns the own ping-pong paddle.
But look it, it's just beautiful.
It's like, it's absolutely beautiful.
And now when I play my friends in a casual game,
there is no such thing as a casual game of ping pong.
I always have the upper hand with my T-mobile blade.
[laughing]
I mean like, is it essential?
Yes, the answer is yes.
No, absolutely not.
But it does make me feel happy to be alive.
[laughing]
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Granola generally is like the favorite part of my day.
This one is Farmers.
Farmers We Know,
you know, I like this one a lot.
It's like a morning ritual.
I'll sit in my favorite chair,
I'll look out my window
I'll eat my granola with raspberries and blueberries
and some 2% milk.
It used to be yogurt
but then I got food poisoning from my yogurt
and then I just decided I don't wanna deal with that again.
And then I'll have my coffee and I'll just...
I'll think or I'll write
and I'll just kind of...
it's like sort of like beautiful solitude.
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So this is a beauty.
This is what something I'm riding at the moment.
Can you see me still?
I don't know.
It's hard to do this sat down
This is something that I've been riding
and it's just elegantly beautiful.
I keep this one in my bedroom like,
you know what I mean?
Like this one sleeps next to me.
I think like surfboards are pieces of art onto themselves.
And when you catch a wave and you ride it,
you feel like you're riding the wind
and you do make stupid sounds.
Haaaaaaaa!
To have the time and the space
to be able to pursue something just
for the sake of doing it,
I feel very grateful for.
And that is essential.
We do need those things
that are for no one else but for ourselves
and for our own growth and spirit
and connection to reality.
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This is a necklace with a compass on it.
My closest friends gave this to me
in a period of time where I needed to trust the direction
I was going even if I didn't know where I was going.
And it was again
during the time where
going through a terrible loss
there was something about the void that that created
and the remarkable things that started to slowly
fill the void of that kind of loss.
And one of them was friendship.
And this definitely is a symbol
of that kind of invisible net of friendship I suppose.
And yeah, the compass is, I don't know
it's a reminder maybe that the more lost you are the more
of an adventure you're on.
And also maybe that's when you're into your true walkabout
and you're gonna find things that you wouldn't
have dreamed you would find.
My friendships are essential.
And this is a little symbol
of some of the deep friendships in my life.
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Yeah, books.
These are just like some things I'm reading right now
cuz I've been kind of nomadic a lot of my life.
For a good 15 to 20 years.
I was just kind of like,
and I would have one suitcase with clothes
and I would have another smaller suitcase
with hard copy books.
Some of them got read and some of them didn't.
But it was more just like a feeling of home with me
wherever I was going.
I start to get a bit anxious
if I don't have literature and great stories
with me in some way.
And I have my iPad and I download,
but there's something about
I don't know, is this is, you know, it's not like theater.
This is not going anywhere.
And you know, we have A Time as a Mother
and it's a series of poems and essays
and Alan Watts always, you know like get to get existential.
And remember the smallness of our own individual egos
with Alan Watts.
That's really exciting.
This is a guy called Wade Davis
who's was a National Geographic explorer
and this is him going into lots of indigenous cultures
around the world
and looking at our original human wisdom
and how it can apply to our meaninglessness
in today's world.
You know, this kind of like creative stimulation
and life stimulation that feels essential to me.
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This is a Carver skateboard.
There's a specific thing that the Carver skateboard does
and it's the front truck has this weird ability to
twist as well as go side to side.
I think is meant to kind of simulate more
of an ability to carve out long lines
that you would carve out while you're surfing.
And surfing has become a really essential part of my life.
It's one of the most kind of beautiful activities
I think a human being can attempt to master and even try.
So this is a cool invention really
because waves are few and far between.
So when you finally catch that wave
you wanna be able to have fun.
And this contraption enables you on dry land
to get that rhythm
so that by the time you manage to catch
the one wave you might catch in a session,
you're ready to commune.
You're ready to have your spiritual moment
with this mysterious thing that's appeared
in the magnificent ocean.
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Dark chocolate generally is really a way for me
to kind of satiate an addiction
without feeling really awful about myself.
I grew up with Aero, Wispas and Twixes
and we have to stop that at some point
because the body just can't deal with it.
So, enter stage left, Alter Eco
and enter stage right, Hu.
This is a daily thing.
Like I will eat one of these a day.
I don't want to live in this world
if I don't get to deal with these brands,
these specific brands of dark chocolate
and specifically these flavors
the Quinoa Crunch gets me
and the Vanilla Crunch gets me.
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So I feel like I'm like
[laughing]
I don't wanna sell stuff to people.
But I did, like when I was thinking about these things,
I was thinking, you know, ethical brands
and as far as I know, Weleda
are pretty good with that stuff.
Non-toxic.
And it's just like really
it's like jumping outta my hand
cuz it's like the universe saying
[Voice Over] Don't sell products
Minnie Driver always also likes Weleda.
That's a little tidbit.
We're buddies and we live nearby to each other.
And you know, she came over,
a cup of tea,
she used the toilet.
Is this a fucking great Hollywood story for you?
She came outta the toilet going,
Weleda, and I was like, yeah.
And she said, I love that you love Weleda
And I was like, me too.
Isn't it great?
And that was that.
And thank you so much for watching.
These have been and still will be for the time being
my 10 essentials.