Andrew Garfield Says He Starved Himself Of Sex And Food During Filming Of Silence
Via CNN:
Andrew Garfield has revealed that he went celibate and fasted for several months to prepare for his role as a Jesuit priest in the 2016 film “Silence.”
The British actor appeared on the entertainment podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” on Monday to promote the true-crime series “Under the Banner of Heaven,” in which he stars as a detective whose faith is shaken when he is called to investigate a brutal murder in his local Mormon community.
As well as discussing the new limited series, his early acting career and the death of his mother, Garfield spoke about working with Martin Scorsese for “Silence,” a movie about two young Portuguese priests (Garfield and Adam Driver) who undertake a treacherous mission to Japan in the 17th century.
The Spider-Man star said he studied Catholicism with a Jesuit priest, went on a 31-day spiritual retreat and gave up “sex and food” before filming the movie.
“You end up in a pretty deep space,” Garfield said. “It’s a transformational process.”
“I was celibate for six months … and fasting a lot,” he added. “I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food for that period of time.”
[CNN]
Despite Scorsese, the strong cast, and good reviews, Silence was a box office bomb. I still keep meaning to watch it, although this trailer doesn’t do anything for me.
