Andrew Garfield has gone "sober from social media".

The 43-year-old actor has revealed he made the decision to step back from online life a few weeks ago, and so he missed the drama around his new film The Uprising being temporarily promoted as a Robin Hood origin story.

He told The Hollywood Reporter: "This all went over my head a little bit. I'm three weeks sober from social media.

"It feels really weird, but good. So [the marketing kerfuffle] passed me by a little bit, but I really trust Focus.

"I trust [director] Paul [Greengrass]. I trust this film to find the people that it's meant to find."

The movie is set during the Peasants' Revolt of the 1380s, and stars Andrew as grieving farmer Ploughman.

Reflecting on parallels between the film and the modern world, he said: "Right now in the world, there's a universal rage that people are either aware of, or they're avoiding, or they're kidding themselves about.

"There's a universal rage we're all feeling, and there's a deep longing to reconnect to the water of life, to the source of what it is to be a human being. There's a loss of soul, and I'm even emotional talking about it now.

"There's a kind of imprisonment that we're all suffering under, and it's keeping us from our sense of belonging to this earth, to ourselves, to each other and to the dignity of our own souls."

Andrew noted that everybody is "deeply longing for a reconnection to that belonging", but he argued the answer is "not simple".

He argued: "There's an obsession that we have right now with ascending above all of our issues and even going to another f****** planet to do it. That's going to solve nothing.

"I feel like the solution is the opposite, counterintuitive way, which is down. It's down through all of our pain, all of our rage, all of our agony and anguish."

The Spider-Man actor suggested that people are united by "our woundedness".

He added: "Down there is where we find our connection to nature and to each other.

"That's where we realise we are the custodians of this miracle that is called life and Planet Earth, rather than dominators of it or victims to it."