Andrew Garfield Recalls “Starving Myself of Sex” for Silence – E! Online

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Andrew Garfield Recalls “Starving Myself of Sex” for Silence - E! Online

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Andrew Garfield is a master of his craft.

The Amazing Spider-Man star, 39, remembered how he prepared to represent a Jesuit priest in the 2016 Martin Scorsese– directed drama, Silence— which likewise starred Adam Driver and Liam Neeson— consisting of studying Catholicism and watching a genuine priest in New York for a year.

“I had an incredibly spiritual experience. I did a bunch of spiritual practices every day, I created new rituals for myself,” he shared on the WTF with Marc Maron podcastAug 22. “I was celibate for six months and fasting a lot, because me and Adam had to lose a bunch of weight anyway.”

Andrew kept in mind that his experience shooting Silence was “very cool,” including that he “had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food for that period of time.”

The Golden Globe award winner likewise protected the “misconceptions” around technique performing, which “trains actors to use their physical, mental and emotional self in the creation of a character and stresses the way in which personal experience can fire the actor’s imagination,” according to the Lee Strasberg Theatre & & Film Institute.