{"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":"
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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

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Garfield defended method acting while on the podcast. <\/figcaption>
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While the \u201cAmazing Spider-Man\u201d star defended the acting style, he acknowledged that it can sometimes get out of hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cthere [have] been a lot of misconceptions about what method acting is, I think,\u201d he said on the podcast. \u201cPeople are still acting in that way, and it’s not about being an a\u2013hole to everyone on set. It’s actually just about living truthfully under imagined circumstances and being really nice to the crew simultaneously and being a normal human being and being able to drop it when you need to and staying in it when you want to stay in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The actor played a Jesuit priest in \u201cSilence.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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But the rigorous technique may have taken its toll on Garfield, who recently revealed he is taking a step back from Hollywood to be \u201cordinary for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m going to rest for a little bit,\u201d he told Variety in April.<\/p>\n

\"Andrew
Garfield revealed earlier this year that he is taking a break from acting.<\/figcaption>
WireImage for Ralph Lauren<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The much-needed rest seems to be doing the \u201cTick, Tick\u2026 \u200b\u200bBoom!\u201d star good, as he was spotted looking ripped while on vacation in Bali just last week.<\/p>\n

Photos of a shirtless, buff Garfield instantly went viral on social media and sent his fans into a frenzy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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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 \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 …<\/p>\n

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