Andrew Garfield had "triple experiences" for months of fasting and celibacy
All of this was part of his self-imposed preparation for the silence of the 2016 film.
The actors sometimes go to the extreme for their roles, whetherchange their appearance, lose or gain weight, learn a new difficult skill, or embody their character's life in another way. For some artists, launching this way is necessary because they study the method. The method game implies an actor living in his character and the inner self of this character, so that their performance is more realistic. In a new interview on the podcastWTF with Marc Maron, Nominated withAndrew Garfield Acting method, which recently took blows in the press and other actors. As part of its preparation for 2016Martin Scorsese filmThe silence, He has fast and was single for months, which, according to him, led to "tripping experiences". Read the rest to see what the actor had to say else.
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He plays a Jesuit priest in the drama.
InThe silence, Garfield andAdam Driver Star as a Jesuit priests of the 17th century, who travel from Portugal to Japan as a missionaries and to find another priest (Liam Neeson), who they hear are tortured in the country after trying to spread Catholicism. It was a critical success but did not succeed well at the box office.
Garfield has lost weight and abstained from sex for the role.
InHis interview withMarc Maron, Garfield explained that to enter the character forThe silence, He studied Catholicism and worked with the Jesuit priest and writerJames Martinfor one year. He also became single and lost 40 pounds of weight.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I had an incredibly spiritual experience",Under the sky bannerAccording to Star. "I have made a lot of spiritual practices every day. I created rituals for myself. I was single for six months and fasted a lot because I and I had to lose a bunch of weight, all way." He said that the practices he had kept included prayer and meditation.
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He said it led to "wild and tripping experiences".
Garfield explained in the interview that depriving himself had an impact unexpectedly. "It was very cool, guy. I had quite wild and tripping experiences to make myself hungry with sex and food during this period," he said.
Maron added: "Of course, your brain should do something." TheAmazing Spider-Man The actor laughed and said, "gives you some gifts, that's for sure."
He also went to a silent one week retirement.
In an interview onThe late show In 2017,Garfield talked about the preparation forThe silence, including literally be silent for a seven -day retirement. He said that after the departure of him and driver, they had "the most disgusting, dirty, horrible and dark conversation for three hours on the airport path". He continued: "It was as if the devil was so excluded from the last seven days ... We went to the darkest place for three hours."
He also said to lose weight for the role: "You do not eat somehow and that you become very, very angry with everything around you ... not to eat makes you incredibly [angry]." He added: "It was brutal. We would somehow make blueberries and almonds between the catches."
He defended the acting method.
Other celebrities have publicly talked about theirdisgust for the method of method, includingMads Mikkelsen, who called him "pretentious" andSebastian Stan, who called it "self-indulgent". Meanwhile, some actors who subscribe to the method have made the headlines for a related behavior that some find inappropriate, asJared Letopretend to have a handicap Between the sockets during the shootingMorbius.
OnWTF with Marc Maron,,Garfield defended method acting By explaining that this should not be as encompassing - or also coarse - as some people do.
"There have been many false ideas on the acting method, I think," he said. "It is not a question of being a [explanive] for everyone on the set. It is actually a question of living honestly in imaginary circumstances, and being really nice to the crew simultaneously, and D 'Being a normal human being, and being able to drop it when you have to, and stay there when you want to stay there. "
The 39 -year -old continued: "I am sort of embarrassed by the false idea. I am sort of embarrassed by this idea that" the acting method is [explanive] [explanive] ". No, I do not think Whether you know what the method is if you call it [explanive], or if you have just worked with someone who claims to be a method actor who does not act the method at all. Also very private. I don't want people to see the pipes [explains] of my toilet. I don't want them to see how I do the sausage. "