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Even someone like Martin Scorsese — arguably the most influential American filmmaker of the last 50 years — can have underrated and underseen films, which is exactly the case when it comes to his 2016 historical epic Silence.
Case in point? I’ve personally never seen it, so I’m not going to sit here and preach about how you simply *must* see it, because that would be hypocritical. Although, for what it’s worth, the general consensus seems to be that it’s an excellent movie.
Perhaps more people will seek out the film now that it’s made its way back into headlines thanks to Andrew Garfield, who starred in the film alongside Adam Driver and Liam Neeson.
During a recent interview on WTF with Marc Maron, Garfield detailed the “trippy experiences” he had while “starving himself” of sex and food for six months while preparing for his role as a 17th-century Jesuit priest.
Andrew Garfield says he starved himself of sex and food to prepare for his role in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
“You end up in a pretty deep space. It’s a transformational process. I was celibate for six months … and fasting a lot. I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food for that period of time,” Garfield said on WTF with Marc Maron on his preparation for Martin Scorsese’s Silence.
“It’s not about being an a**hole to everyone on set. It’s actually just about living truthfully under imagined circumstances, and being really nice to the crew simultaneously, 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.”
Given the nature of Garfield’s comments, the internet had naturally a field day with them:
Spider-Man doesn’t eat or fuck, we know this.
props to andrew garfield for inhabiting that character the way he was written 🙏🏻 https://t.co/hxtfo8QV1n
— Cade Onder (@Cade_Onder) August 23, 2022
girl we goin to islam? https://t.co/awxq1EI3CW
— johan (@malaymango) August 23, 2022
https://twitter.com/jamieeast/status/1562033747461120002
“My dear boy, have you tried acting?” –Laurence Olivier https://t.co/wzTQZ3NbZu
— Franklin Harris (@FranklinH3000) August 22, 2022
I did this too, but it was called ‘being in an indie band.’ https://t.co/UPaW6Y9Okv
— John Niven HQ (@estellecostanza) August 23, 2022
Imagine you've had a bad day at work and you just want to go home and get your back broken by Andrew Garfield and he's just like nah not having sex in the name of Martin Scorsese x
— mace (@ANDREWG4RFlELD) August 22, 2022
I too am starving myself if sex. https://t.co/9AHwYbOHFD
— B1G c🅿️eezus (@tha_real_cp) August 23, 2022
Sometimes it's good to remember that in the '30s and '40s actors would just read lines from the script and pretend… Choices https://t.co/Qbm5cfrvTd
— Tommie Dearest (@IAmThomasKrause) August 22, 2022
Reminds me of the Chris Rock line about David Blaine: "What’s his last trick? 'I’m in a box… and I ain’t gonna eat.’ … That ain’t no trick, that’s called living in the projects." https://t.co/po4kNaSgby
— Stephen Robinson (@SER1897) August 22, 2022
https://twitter.com/SeanMBurns/status/1561846989863755777
https://twitter.com/m0llycore/status/1561823227076280320
Omg same https://t.co/meCG7KoA1U pic.twitter.com/2hzIIFc5At
— Brendan Fraser Crane (@bf_crane) August 22, 2022
If you do find yourself in the mood to watch Silence, it can be streamed over on Paramount+ and rented virtually anywhere else for about $3.
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