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Andrew Garfield, 39, proved he takes his performing profession very severely, in his newest interview. The actor revealed he abstained from each intercourse and meals when getting ready to play a priest within the 2016 movie, Silence, on a brand new episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. “I did a bunch of non secular practices daily, I created new rituals, I used to be celibate for six months and I used to be fasting lots,” he mentioned about his expertise.
“It was very cool, man,” he continued. “I had some fairly wild, trippy experiences from ravenous myself of intercourse and meals at the moment.”
Andrew additionally revealed he spent a 12 months finding out beneath Jesuit author Father James Martin, whom he known as his “good friend and non secular director.” Martin helped him analysis Catholicism and confirmed him how one can do a collection of non secular workout routines to prepare for his position within the drama, which was directed by Martin Scorsese. The proficient star acknowledged the advantages of the kind of technique performing he took half in for the position, but additionally warned that it could actually typically get out of hand if not correctly executed.
“There [have] been quite a lot of misconceptions about what technique performing is, I feel,” he defined on the podcast. “Individuals are nonetheless performing in that manner, and it’s not about being an a**gap to everybody on set. It’s truly nearly dwelling in truth beneath imagined circumstances and being very nice to the crew concurrently and being a standard human being and having the ability to drop it when it is advisable and staying in it once you need to keep in it.”
Andrew’s intense performing fashion can take its toll, which may very well be why he determined to take a break from it for some time. “I’m going to relaxation for a bit of bit,” he informed Selection in Apr. He additional defined that he desires to be “abnormal for some time” and he did simply that in a current trip in Bali. He made headlines for being noticed shirtless and exhibiting off his muscular tissues whereas taking within the attractive sights of the unique location.
