Andrew Garfield Says Technique Performing Critics ‘Have No Concept What It Even Is’

Andrew Garfield has planted his flag within the technique performing debate, saying individuals who criticize the method do not really perceive it.

Showing on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast (through Variety), Garfield defined that technique performing is not about mistreating different members of a manufacturing.

“[There’ve] been a whole lot of misconceptions about what technique performing is, I believe,” Garfield stated. “It’s not about being an a**gap to everybody on set. It’s really nearly dwelling in truth underneath imagined circumstances, and being very nice to the crew concurrently, and being a traditional human being, and having the ability to drop it when you should and staying in it while you wish to keep in it.”

The actor additionally stated critics of technique performing might not have a full understanding of what goes into it, saying “I don’t suppose you understand what technique performing is when you’re calling it bullsh*t, otherwise you’ve simply labored with somebody who claims to be a technique actor that isn’t really performing the tactic in any respect.”

Garfield himself additionally detailed his strategy to technique performing for 2016’s Silence, the place he performed a Seventeenth-century Jesuit priest. He ready for the function by researching Catholicism, present process religious coaching, and going celibate and fasting forward of filming, saying he “had some fairly wild, trippy experiences from ravenous myself of intercourse and meals”.

There are many examples of technique performing, from tame implementations like Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst not talking to one another whereas filming The Energy of the Canine, to extra excessive examples like Jared Leto requiring crutches for his bathroom breaks while on the set of Morbius.

Earlier this 12 months, some actors began speaking out against method acting. Mads Mikkelsen known as the apply “pretentious”, Will Poulter stated technique performing is used as an excuse for inappropriate conduct, and Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Pattinson, and Martin Freeman have additionally weighed in. Stranger Issues actor David Harbour additionally recently criticized method acting, calling the apply “harmful” and “foolish”.

Garfield also recently decided to take a break from acting after a busy stretch the place he appeared in Spider-Man: No Manner Residence, Tick, Tick… Increase!, Underneath the Banner of Heaven, and extra. When he does finally return to our screens, there are a ton of fans that would love to see him in The Amazing Spider-Man 3.

Logan Plant is a contract author for IGN. You could find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.