Mom has lunch in same restaurant as Andrew Garfield, boldly asks him to record video for her son

Give this woman an award!
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Rachel Thompson
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Next time your mother tells you she'd do anything for you, believe her!

This mother did what many of us would be far too nervous to do had we found ourselves seated next to Andrew Garfield at lunch. She asked him to record a video for her son.

Ian Palmer — an actor and writer in NYC — posted a video sent to him by his mother after she found herself sitting in the same restaurant as Garfield. What are the odds, eh?

"Hi Ian, you have a very sweet mother who doesn't mind crossing boundaries over lunch tables," Garfield joked. "I hear you're sick and I hear you didn't get to go out last night, get better."

"Sending love. This is Andrew Garfield by the way," he added, just in case anyone couldn't tell that from the video featuring his face.

Palmer's sister Emily also tweeted about her mother's interaction with the Spider-Man actor, stating that he was "politely throwing shade" at her just hours after winning a Tony Award.

Um, best mum ever?!

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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