Andrew Garfield He has become one of the most sought-after actors in the film industry for being part of great works such as “The Social Network” (2010) or “Tick, tick… boom!” (2021). This success of his acting is due in large part to his method acting technique, with which he seeks greater realism in acting.
Garfield told comedian Marc Maron, in the latest episode of his podcast, WTF, how he prepared for the Martin Scorsese film “Silence” (2016), in which he had to play a Jesuit, a role he went through a year preparing.
He was studying with the Jesuit writer James Martin, reading and researching Catholicism and doing spiritual exercises. Also, for six months, she did not have sex and fasted.
Andrew Garfield. Photo: AFP
“I had an incredibly spiritual experience. I did a lot of spiritual practices every day, I created new rituals for myself. I was without sex for six months and fasting a lot because I had to lose a lot of weight anyway. It was incredible. I had some pretty wild and ‘trippy’ experiences depriving myself of sex and food at that time”, settled Gardfield, who doesn’t seem like he’s going to stray one millimeter from that ‘method’ that is bringing him so much success.
Some stars such as Brian Cox, David Harbor and Mads Mikkelsen have described the process as “dangerous”, “pretentious” and even “sick”; however, the interpreter of Spiderman thinks differently.
“The misconception bothers me, the idea that ‘method acting is a s*** m*****’ bothers me (…). People still act that way, and it’s not about being a jerk to everyone on set. It’s really just about living honestly in imagined circumstances and being very nice to the team at the same time, and being a normal human being, and being able to leave it when you need to and stay in it when you want to stay. in it”, assured the actor to Marc Maron.
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