Drew Barrymore isn't impressed by Andrew Garfield giving up sex for six months for movie role
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Andrew Garfield
Anish Vij
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Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Andrew Garfield
It turns out that Drew Barrymore isn't impressed in the slightest by Andrew Garfield giving up sex for six months in preparation for a role in Martin Scorsese's Silence.
The Amazing Spider-Man actor decided to method act as prep for his priest role as Sebastiao Rodrigues in the 2016 drama Silence, which also happened to lead to a 2017 best actor Oscar nomination.
Garfield told the WTF with Marc Maron podcast: "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."
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However, it seems as if Barrymore, 47, wasn't too bothered by Garfield's commitment to the 2016 role.
On a recent episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the 50 First Dates actor joked: "I get abstaining from sex, I mean I did that my entire 20s, right?"
She then added: "What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time? I was like, ‘Yeah so?’”
Co-host Ross Matthews also joked: “We buried the lede there, that’s the headline. Drew can go six months, no big deal.”
Barrymore admitted that she had tried method acting on a few occasions and said: “I definitely [did], on certain projects, like when I did Grey Gardens, this film I did where I played beloved real-life woman Edie Beale.
"I was so nervous I didn’t really chit chat with everybody on set, I just really stayed in character."
Later on in the podcast, Garfield went into the 'misconceptions' of 'what method acting is'.
He said: "People are still acting in that way, and it's not about being an a******e 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."
The synopsis for Silence reads: "Two 17th-century Portuguese missionaries, Father Sebastian Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Father Francisco Garupe (Adam Driver), embark on a perilous journey to Japan to find their missing mentor (Liam Neeson).
"While there, the two men minister to the Christian villagers who worship in secret. If caught by feudal lords or ruling samurai, they must renounce their faith or face a prolonged and agonizing death."
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