Andrew Garfield has revealed his preparation for his priest role in Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film "Silence," revealing he fasted from food and sex for six months. He described his experience as “pretty wild and trippy.”
The actor occurred on the entertainment podcast "WTF with Marc Maron" to broadcast the true-crime series "Under the Banner of Heaven," in which he stars as a detective whose faith is shaken when he is called to investigate a brutal murder in his local Mormon community.
"I did a bunch of spiritual practices every day, I created new rituals, I was celibate for six months and I was fasting a lot,... It was very cool, man. I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food at that time." -Garfield said in the episode of the "WTF with Marc Maron" podcast.
The 39-year-old also opened up about method acting, an approach that 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.
The Spider-Man star said he spent a year studying Catholicism with Fr. James Martin, a prominent Jesuit priest, in New York, He went on a 31-day spiritual retreat and gave up "sex and food" before filming the movie.
"You end up in pretty deep space...It's a transformational process." Garfield added.
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