Andrew Garfield Defends Method Acting

Andrew Garfield Defends Method Acting, Says Starving Himself of Food and Sex Delivered

Method acting is never far from the headlines as the technique seems to rally just as much support as it does hate from Hollywood insiders

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Andrew Garfield is firmly in the former category “I’m kind of bothered by the misconception,

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I’m kind of bothered by this idea that ‘method acting is fucking bullshit,'” the 39-year-old actor told Marc Maron

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on the latest installment of his WTF podcast. “People are still acting in that way, and it’s not about being an asshole to everyone on set.

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It’s actually just about living truthfully under imagined circumstances, and being really nice to the crew simultaneously,

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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.”

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Garfield went method to play a 17th century Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film Silence

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