Actor Andrew Garfield who achieved international recognition for his superhero role in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” announced that he's drawn to films that deal with faith and spirituality.
Garfield has starred in films based on true stories or about people of faith throughout his career, from playing World War II Army medic Desmond T. Doss in “Hacksaw Ridge” to evangelist Jim Bakker in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
Now he's starring in the true-crime series “Under the Banner of Heaven,” inspired by Jon Krakauer's bestseller of the same name. In the FX limited series, the actor plays a detective wrestling with matters of faith and murder.
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“This is the heaviest and darkest film I’ve done,” Garfield expressed at the series’ Hollywood premiere on Wednesday night. “It’s a true-crime thriller dealing with important psychological themes that have kind of been stuck with me for the last 10 years, ever since I first read the book. How could men be good and end up doing terrible, evil things in the name of God? That is a vital question that we need to get to the bottom of to make sure that it happens less and less and less.”
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“Questions of faith and spirituality, and the mystery of a spiritual life, is what I’m drawn to the most,” Garfield expressed in an interview with Vanity Fair.
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He continued saying, “If I wasn’t an actor, I think I’d be doing some kind of theological study, and Dustin’s adaptation is that. He presents a study and a set of circumstances and unpicks the notion of fundamentalism and extremism, and how it undermines the virtues and the goodness that can come from having faith."
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In the past, nevertheless, Garfield's views about religion were scattered and confused.
In 2016 Garfield briefed The Hollywood Reporter, “I’m not a Christian person. I consider myself pantheist, agnostic, occasionally atheist, and a little bit Jewish, but mostly confused.”
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It's not clear where Garfield now stands regarding his faith journey because, in 2017, he recalled “falling in love” with Jesus Christ while playing a priest, Father Sebastiao Rodrigues, in Martin Scorsese’s film, “Silence.”
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“What was easy was falling in love with this person, was falling in love with Jesus Christ, that was the most surprising thing,” the celebrity described America magazine at the time. “That was the most remarkable thing — falling in love, and how easy it was to fall in love with Jesus.”
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In another recent interview with Collider, the 38-year-old admitted that his motivation for portraying characters with faith storylines comes from an infatuation with life and death.
“Life and death are everything,” he noted. The “finite nature of being here” and then suddenly dying is what fascinates him.
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“For me, it’s a very fertile ground that is endlessly interesting,” he added. “Because if you’re dealing with spirituality, you’re dealing with faith, then you’re dealing with life and death. And what’s more vital? What’s a greater question?”
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