Andrew Garfield was "desperate" for a role in the Narnia movies – but was told he wasn't handsome enough

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Andrew Garfield has revealed that🍬 he auditioned for the Narnia movies, but lost out on the part because he wasn't deemed handsome enough.

"I remember I was so desperate. I auditioned for Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia and I thought, 'This🔯 could be it, this could be it,'" Garfield said in an interview with . "And that handsome, brilliant actor Ben Barnes ended up getting the role. I think it was down to me and him, and I remember 🅺I was obsessed."

The character first appears in the second movie in the series, 2008's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and again in the final movie in the trilogy, 2010's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

When he didn't get the role, Garfield went to his agent and asked♚, "Why not me?" 

"She eventually just broke under my incessant nagging and she was like, 'It’s because they do🎀n’t think you’re handsome enough, Andrew,'" Garfield added. "Ben Ba🅘rnes is a very handsome, talented man. So in retrospect, I’m not unhappy with the decision and I think he did a beautiful job."

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