Andrew Garfield reveals he fasted a lot and was celibate

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23rd Aug, 2022. 10:23 am
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Andrew is shown as a pious individual who abstains from earthly pleasures in the 2016 film set in the 17th century.
the actor revealed that he did a bunch of spiritual practices every day, and was celibate for six months
the actor added: “There [have] been a lot of misconceptions about what method acting is, I think.”

Andrew Garfield discusses the preparations he had to do in order to portray a Jesuit priest in Silence.

Andrew is shown as a pious individual who abstains from earthly pleasures in the 2016 film set in the 17th century.

Speaking about his journey in an episode of the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast, the actor added: “I did a bunch of spiritual practices every day, I created new rituals, I was celibate for six months and I was fasting a lot,” Garfield said in Monday’s episode of the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast.

“It was very cool, man,” he continued. “I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food at that time.”

Speaking upon the drawbacks and misconceptions of method acting, the Spider Man actor added: “There [have] been a lot of misconceptions about what method acting is, I think.”

He continued: “People are still acting in that way, and it’s not about being an a–hole to everyone on set. It’s actually just about living truthfully under imagined circumstances and being really nice to the crew simultaneously and being a normal human being and being able to drop it when you need to and staying in it when you want to stay in it.”