Garfield went on to say that he is “kind of bothered” by those who would dismiss the method outright, given past examples of actors using it to justify bad on-set behavior. “I’m kind of bothered by this idea that ‘Method acting’s f*cking bullsh*t.’ No, I don’t think you know what Method acting is if you’re calling it bullsh*t — or you just worked with someone who claims to be a Method actor, that isn’t actually acting the Method at all,” he said. “And it’s also very private…I think the process…I don’t want people to see the f***ing pipes of my toilet. I don’t want them to see how I’m making the sausage.”<\/p>\n
In conversation with Maron, Garfield also went into his own Method approach in preparing for Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film Silence<\/em>, which had him playing the Portuguese Jesuit Priest, Sebastião Rodrigues — remaining celibate and fasting for six months out of his full year of prep. “It was very cool, man,” said Garfield. “I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food for that period of time.”<\/p>\n Garfield’s WTF<\/em> appearance came as part of the promotional campaign for his performance in FX’s true crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven<\/em>, based on Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name, which recently landed him his first Emmy nomination. The show created by Dustin Lance Black centers on the devout detective Jeb Pyre (Garfield), whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.<\/p>\n
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