Andrew Garfield slams Supreme Court at Tony Awards: ‘Let’s just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked’

Earlier in the evening, Garfield — a British-American citizen — urged “the old guard” to “quietly vanish into the night” because decisions like the one handed down by the Supreme Court on Monday “only embolden other human beings to think it’s OK to hold on to their old, bigoted ideas.”

“Graciously give the world to the new generation, to the generation that knows we are all interconnected, to the generation that knows we are all created to love and to live,” he said in an interview with Variety.

“It’s not something to be afraid of, it’s not a threat. It’s a fucking party,” he continued. “So we have to keep working until the change that we want to see happens. It just may take a bit longer.”

The Supreme Court on Monday came to a 7-2 verdict in the Masterpiece Cake Shop Ltd v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case, in which a Colorado baker objected to making a cake for a gay couple’s wedding due to his religious opposition to same-sex marriage.

The court’s decision focused narrowly on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s actions toward baker Jack Phillips, finding the commission was hostile to Phillips’ faith and failed to act neutrally toward his religion.

“Angels in America,” written by Tony Kushner, explores homosexuality in the U.S. in the 1980s.

Garfield did not make the only political statement of the 72nd annual Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Noma Dumezweni, who stars as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, also told Variety that President Trump wasn’t welcome at any of the production’s performances.

“Anybody else, yes,” Dumezweni said.