Instead, “storytelling is my passion now,” Garnett says. He introduced himself to a wider audience two years ago in Uncut Gems, the propulsive, neurotic Safdie brothers film starring Adam Sandler. Garnett played himself, and his natural intensity was pitch perfect. “I don’t necessarily want to do something that I’m not passionate about, or that I can’t be very, very expressive in,” Garnett says. “But I’m not opposed to doing another film. It’s just got to be the right fit for myself, and in what we’re doing.” (Garnett loves all kinds of movies, but his all-time favorite is Serendipity, the 2001 romantic comedy starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. “It took me, and I never let it go,” he says. “Like, that’s some s— that I would totally be on, being free-spirited and all that. Every time I watch Serendipity, I feel like I’m watching it for the first time, you know what I’m saying?” Even just discussing it, he can’t help but get worked up. “Each time I’m like, No! Get back on the elevator! Go, go! Like, f—.”)