Andrew Garfield Recalls ‘Starving’ Himself Of Sex To Play A Priest In 2016 Film Silence
perezhilton.comAndrew Garfield is extremely dedicated to his career! According to a new episode of WTF with Marc Maron on Monday, the 39-year-old actor did some method acting for his 2016 role in Silence.
In case you haven’t seen the film, it follows the story of two 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel from Portugal to Edo-era Japan via Macau to locate their missing mentor and spread Catholic Christianity.
It’s based on the 1966 novel of the same name. In order to get familiar with the priest he was playing, the Under the Banner of Heaven star lived a similar life — including fasting and being “celibate for six months” he tells Marc: Talk about taking your career seriously! Related: Holy Cow, Nicole Kidman Is JACKED!
Look At Those Arms! Andrew went on to say the experience was “cool” and “trippy”: The Amazing Spider-Man alum also revealed he spent a year studying under a real priest — Jesuit writer James Martin, whom Garfield calls his “friend and spiritual director”.
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