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Drew Barrymore and co-host Ross Matthews chimed successful connected Andrew Garfield's abstinence revelation during a Sept. 20 occurrence of The Drew Barrymore Show. Here's what she had to say.
Andrew Garfield Talks "Starving" Himself of Sex & Food for Movie Role
Drew Barrymore has weighed successful on Andrew Garfield's abstinence confession.
During a Sept. 20 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, big Drew Barrymore and co-host Ross Mathews poked amusive astatine Andrew Garfield's prime to stay abstinent for six months successful bid to hole for his role arsenic a Jesuit clergyman successful the 2016 film Silence. The actor's admission left Barrymore questioning herself, teasing, "What's incorrect with maine that six months doesn't look similar a precise agelong time? I was like, ‘Yeah so?'"
Mathews besides chimed successful saying, "I get abstaining from sex, I mean I did that my full 20s, right?"
"We buried the lede there, that's the headline," he added. "Drew tin spell six months, nary large deal."
But that's not to accidental Barrymore isn't on-board with method acting, admitting that she knows plentifulness of actors who person gotten large results from the method including Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey. Barrymore tin also understand wherefore actors request to "transform and afloat commit" to a quality during filming.
"I decidedly did on definite projects, similar erstwhile I did Grey Gardens, this movie I did wherever I played beloved real-life pistillate Edie Beale," she explained. "I was truthful tense I didn't truly chit chat with everybody connected set, I conscionable truly stayed successful character."
The abstinence chatter archetypal started erstwhile Garfield revealed his celibacy for Silence connected the WTF with Marc Maron podcast connected Aug. 22.
"I had an incredibly spiritual experience. I did a clump of spiritual practices each day, I created caller rituals for myself," the Spider Man: No Way Home histrion shared. "I was celibate for six months and fasting a lot, due to the fact that maine and Adam had to suffer a clump of value anyway."
Andrew called the experience of shooting the Martin Scorsese-directed film "very cool," noting that helium "had immoderate beauteous wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of enactment and nutrient for that play of time."
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The Golden Globe grant victor besides shared his grievances implicit the backlash method acting has received successful the past.
"I'm benignant of bothered by this thought that ‘method acting is bulls--t.'" Garfield explained. "No, I don't deliberation you cognize what method acting is if you've conscionable worked with idiosyncratic who claims to beryllium a method histrion who isn't really acting the method astatine all. It's besides precise private. I don't privation radical to spot the pipes of my toilet. I don't privation them to spot however I'm making the sausage."
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