{"id":53543,"date":"2022-08-23T05:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/andrew-garfield-recalls-starving-himself-of-sex-to-play-priest\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T05:45:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T05:45:59","slug":"andrew-garfield-recalls-starving-himself-of-sex-to-play-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/andrew-garfield-recalls-starving-himself-of-sex-to-play-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield recalls ‘starving’ himself of sex to play priest"},"content":{"rendered":"
Method actor Andrew Garfield revealed he abstained from sex and food to prepare for his role as a 17th century Jesuit priest in the 2016 film \u201cSilence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI did a bunch of spiritual practices every day, I created new rituals, I was celibate for six months and I was fasting a lot,\u201d Garfield said in Monday’s episode of the \u201cWTF with Marc Maron\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very cool, man,\u201d he continued. \u201cI had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the end, Garfield spent a year studying under Jesuit writer Father James Martin, to whom he referred as his \u201cfriend and spiritual director.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin, 61, helped Garfield, 39, research Catholicism and led the Oscar nominee through a series of spiritual exercises to get ready for his role in the Martin Scorsese-directed historical drama.<\/p>\n
Garfield said he and Martin turned to the same rituals that Konstantin Stanislavski followed to come up with method acting over 100 years prior.<\/p>\n