Drew Barrymore Says She Could Abstain From Sex For Years

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Drew Barrymore has no problem abstaining from sex. During Tuesday’s episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show“, the 47-year-old actress and talk show host spoke about Andrew Garfield and his method acting practices, which included abstaining from sex and food, for six months for his role as a Jesuit priest in the 2016 Martin Scorsese film, “Silence”. “Well, I get abstaining from sex, I did that my entire 20s,” “Drew Barrymore Show” contributor, Ross Matthews, said during the show’s “Drew’s News” segment. “I was like, ‘What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, so?'” Barrymore agreed. “I mean we buried the lead there, that’s the headline, ‘Drew can go six months, no big deal,'” Ross quipped. “Oh, years,” Barrymore added.

Barrymore knows a thing or two about method acting. It’s a practice she’s employed herself, specifically while in her Golden Globe-winning role of Edie Beale in “Grey Gardens”. “There are lots of actors who have, Christian Bale, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, you do want to transform and fully commit, so I understand that,” Barrymore said of the sometimes-controversial acting method. “I definitely on certain projects, like when I was doing ‘Grey Gardens’ this film I did where I played this beloved real-life woman Edie Beale…” “I was so nervous I didn’t really chit chat with everybody on set, I just really stayed in character, or her,” she continued.

Garfield spoke about diving into the role for “Silence”, during an August episode of the “WTF With Marc Maron“podcast, and the lengths he went to embody the 17th-century priest. “I had an incredibly spiritual experience.