Andrew Garfield reveals how he prepared for ‘Silence’ role: ‘I was celibate for six months’

British actor Andrew Garfield has revealed that for his lead role in “Silence’, a movie that Martin Scorsese released to theaters in 2016, deprived himself of sex for six months and also skipped breakfast for several months.

In the new film adaptation of the novel by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, the Hollywood star plays a 17th-century Jesuit priest who, along with a colleague (Adam Driver), travels from Portugal to Japan in search of his missing mentor (Liam Neeson). .

Andrew Garfield said during an interview with the WTF with Marc Maron podcast that for the project Martin Scorsese decided to follow in the footsteps of the acting method. “You find yourself in quite deep space. It is a process of transformation,” he said.

“I was celibate for six months…and fasted a lot,” the 39-year-old actor said. He also added that he went into a month-long spiritual retreat and studied Catholicism with a Jesuit priest. “I had a pretty wild and psychedelic experience depriving myself of sex and food during that period,” he said.

Andrew Garfield and the ‘misconceptions’ about acting method

Theater founded by Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky. method performance According to the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, this is a technique in which actors or actresses use their “physical, mental, and emotional personalities” to shape a character.

According to Andrew Garfield, today around this system there is a “misconception” that bothered him. “It’s not about being a jerk to everyone on set,” said the one who brought Spider-Man to life in the Marvel strips.

“It’s really about living with the truth in imaginary circumstances, and at the same time being very kind to the team and being a normal person. And to be able to leave it when you need it and stay with it when you want to stay with it,” he opined.

Although American critics have acclaimedSilence’, Film about Martin Scorsese it only received a Best Cinematography nomination at the 2016 Oscars. Andrew Garfieldmeanwhile, won an award for this performance at the 2017 London Film Critics Circle.

Andrew Garfield to take hiatus after ‘Under Heaven’s Banner’

Currently, Andrew Garfield is promoting the series Under the Banner of Heaven, where he plays a detective who sees his faith weaken at the very moment he investigates a murder in the Mormon community.

Last April, the celebrity announced that she was planning to take a break from acting. In recent years, his career has been more than eventful: he not only participated in the films “Spider-Man: No Home” and “Tick, tick … Boom!”, For which he was nominated for an Oscar, he was also in ” Through the eyes of Tammy Faye” and played in the theater.

“I’m going to take some time off… I need to re-adjust and re-evaluate what I want to do next and who I want to be and just be a little human for a while,” she told the magazine. Diversity.

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