Andrew Garfield is an Actor with a capital A. And if there’s one factor Actors do, it’s defend performing.
In a current look on the “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast, the Oscar-nominated actor stood by the oft-maligned artwork of Methodology performing.
“There [have] been a whole lot of misconceptions about what Methodology performing is, I feel,” Garfield mentioned. “Persons are nonetheless performing in that manner, and it’s not about being an a— to everybody on set. It’s truly nearly residing honestly beneath imagined circumstances, and being very nice to the crew concurrently, and being a standard human being, and with the ability to drop it when it is advisable to and staying in it if you need to keep in it.”
Actors Brian Cox and Mads Mikkelson are among the many current and vocal detractors of Methodology performing. In a 2021 New Yorker profile on his “Succession” co-star Jeremy Robust, Cox lamenting “the crises he places himself by means of with a purpose to put together.” And Mikkelson was vital of the apply in an April GQ profile, saying “it’s b—.”
However Garfield insisted that the apply’s picture has been harm by actors behaving badly and claiming it as Methodology.
“I’m type of bothered by the misunderstanding, I’m type of bothered by this concept that ‘Methodology performing is f— b—.’ No, I don’t assume you recognize what Methodology performing is in the event you’re calling it b—, otherwise you simply labored with somebody who claims to be a Methodology actor who isn’t truly performing the Methodology in any respect,” the “Hacksaw Ridge” actor mentioned. “It’s additionally very personal. I don’t need individuals to see the f— pipes of my rest room. I don’t need them to see how I’m making the sausage.”
The “Below the Banner of Heaven” star recalledemploying Methodology performing in Martin Scorsese‘s 2016 non secular drama “Silence,” by which Garfield performed a seventeenth century Portuguese Jesuit missionary who ventures to Japan. For the position, Garfield studied Catholicism with famend Jesuit priest Father James Martin and took particular observe of the Ignatian Non secular Workouts.
“It’s principally a 31-day retreat that you just do the place you actively meditate on the lifetime of Jesus Christ and also you place your self, utilizing your creativeness, into each single stage and scene and second of the lifetime of Christ, from his inception to his resurrection,” Garfield mentioned. “It’s a transformational course of. I had a relationship with an imagined Christ in my head by the point I had completed this retreat.”
That isn't the one factor he did to embody the lifetime of a priest.
“I had some fairly wild, trippy experiences,” Garfield added, “from ravenous myself of intercourse and meals for that time frame.”
Garfield additionally highlighted different a number of acclaimed performances that carried out the Methodology method in seemingly non-problematic methods.
“You see [Al] Pacino in ‘Canine Day Afternoon’ ... and also you see somebody who's following his impulses,” Garfield famous. “Each single impulse is uncooked, actual and it’s susceptible and it’s grotesque and it’s lovely, it’s poetic.”
Talking on Robert De Niro‘s position in 1986’s “The Mission” Garfield mentioned, “Each single second is so pure ... a bunch of mysterious s— occurs in his physique, in his psyche.”
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