Andrew Garfield is a master of his craft.
The “Wonderful Spider-Guy” actor, 39, recalled how he well prepared to portray a Jesuit priest in the 2016 Martin Scorsese-directed drama, “Silence” — which also starred Adam Driver and Liam Neeson — which include researching Catholicism and shadowing a serious priest in New York for a calendar year.
“I had an unbelievably spiritual working experience. I did a bunch of religious tactics every single working day, I designed new rituals for myself,” he shared on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast Aug. 22. “I was celibate for six months and fasting a whole lot, since me and Adam experienced to get rid of a bunch of bodyweight anyway.”
Garfield mentioned that his practical experience filming “Silence” was “really amazing,” introducing that he “experienced some quite wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sexual intercourse and food items for that period of time.”
The Golden World award winner also defended the “misconceptions” about system acting, which “trains actors to use their physical, psychological and psychological self in the generation of a character and stresses the way in which individual practical experience can fireplace the actor’s imagination,” according to the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Movie Institute.
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While method acting has gotten a adverse rep from other stars in Hollywood, Garfield believes that there are positives to performing it.
“There [have] been a lot of misconceptions about what technique performing is, I imagine,” he shared on the WTF podcast. “People today are nonetheless acting in that way, and it’s not about currently being an asshole to all people on established. It truly is essentially just about dwelling truthfully underneath imagined instances, and being genuinely great to the crew simultaneously, and getting a regular human becoming, and being ready to fall it when you will need to and being in it when you want to remain in it.”
The “Beneath the Banner of Heaven” star additional that he is “kind of bothered by this strategy that ‘method acting’s f–king bulls–t.'”
“I don’t think you know what approach performing is if you’re calling it bulls–t. Or you just labored with someone who claims to be a approach actor that isn’t really acting the system at all. And it is really also very non-public. I believe the procedure of creating—I you should not want folks to see the f–king pipes of my bathroom. I you should not want them to see how I am generating the sausage.”
