Andrew Garfield has addressed the recent marketing confusion around his new film The Uprising, a Paul Greengrass-directed period drama that briefly appeared to have been rebranded as a Robin Hood film before studios clarified the subtitle was only a tagline. Garfield, who says he has been largely disconnected from entertainment news and hadn't followed the controversy, told The Hollywood Reporter he welcomes any unusual publicity if it draws audiences to the film, comparing it to the viral "deranged horse" moment from his earlier film We Live in Time.

The Uprising is set during England's 1381 Peasants' Revolt, with Garfield playing a fictional grieving farmer called the Ploughman who joins real historical figures Wat Tyler and John Ball in rebelling against oligarchic taxation under King Richard II. Garfield draws parallels between the historical uprising and modern discontent with billionaire influence over politics and rising living costs, saying he hopes the film "scares" the wealthiest one percent. While the film nods to Robin Hood mythology—the character's name references a poem containing the earliest literary mention of the outlaw—Garfield says it is not a literal Robin Hood origin story but instead captures the "emergent energy" behind the legend.