Drew Barrymore challenges Andrew Garfield’s six-month celibacy with, “Yeah, so?”
The Under The Banner Of Heaven star recently divulged details of his method acting processes
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Messiah of method acting Andrew Garfield very bravely came forward and admitted that as a part of his process for Martin Scorsese’s Silence, he abstained from sex for six months. Fellow actor and talk show host Drew Barrymore finally broke her own silence to say what everyone’s been thinking: “Yeah, so?”
“What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time? I was like, ‘Yeah so?’” Barrymore says during the September 20 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
“We buried the lede there, that’s the headline,” co-host Ross Matthews adds. “Drew can go six months, no big deal.” Some people accidentally go six months without having sex, much less seek praise for forgoing intercourse for a measly half-year. Come back to us when you go at least a full year without sex, Garfield.
The Under The Banner Of Heaven star recently took to defending method acting from the bad rap it has received over the last few years.
“There [have] been a lot of misconceptions about what method acting is, I think,” he said on an episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. “People are still acting in that way, and it’s not about being an asshole 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.”
“It was very cool, man,” he adds. “I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food at that time.”
Imagine getting so much regular sex that abstaining from it for six months leads to “trippy experiences.” Well, you heard it here first: Andrew Garfield fucks.
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Did he fill the void by sniffing his own farts?
That might bring him dangerously close to his own penis.
Does sniffing someone else’s farts count as sexual activity?
According to South Park Brazilian fart porn is a thing
According to Brazil, South Park fart porn is a thing.
If it gets you off
Hey there is a kink out there for EVERYTHING, do you get your jollies rubbing one out to a one legged amputee midget with down syndrome banging a horse, well your in luck, this is there internet so you can BET someone made a porn video for that. LOL
What’s that rule number? “If you can imagine it, there’s likely niche porn of it”?
EXACTLY. It’s like why kink shame someone there is an almost 100% guarantee there is some other freak out there into the same shit lol.
That counts as sex to some people.
Kneeling to accommodate another person’s fart hitting your face flush, whilst both parties are nude… that’s sex, pal.
I went a whole 18 years without sex!
Yeah I’d say the vast majority of the planet went at least 16 years without sex.
God I hope so.
random knowledge, allegedly Johnny Depp lost his virginity at age 13 and I find that gross!
It certainly wasn’t my experience, but that’s not totally unheard of.
I can do six months standing on my head
We call that one the corkscrew.
A variation is called the Oil Derrick
That ends with Red Adair blowing you up and covering you with his foam, right?
You and me both, Costanza
I know where this came from and…applause.
That necklace looks heavy.
Heavier than a pearl necklace, which from the sounds of it, she doesn’t wear very often.
“I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food at that time.”
Yeah that’s the fasting, dude. If abstaining from sex gave you trippy experiences I’d be at a permanent Disco Biscuits show…
Someone who considers 6 months “starving” themselves of sex must legit have sex 4 times a day on a normal basis.
Or wants people to think he does.
To be fair he did star in a couple major motion pictures.
Be unfair.
So did Oliver Platt.
Yep and I bet everyone who starred in Lake Placid gets laid more than I do also.
That’s including Betty White in posthumous existence?
He’s single, famous, and looks like Andrew Garfield. I’m guessing the dude has sex four or five times on the way to get a gallon of milk.
If so I hope he also picks up some water. Hydration is key.
I’d have sex with Andrew Garfield but I would be thinking about Tobey Maguire the whole time
Why?
So would he.
What I read is him saying “look guys I am swatting all this pussy away, like it’s straight RAINING pussy on me and I ain’t touching it”
Would he not have someone to do that for him? Buying the milk, I mean.
I’m glad you clarified. From the ordering of the comments I was thinking you meant for “swatting all this pussy away”.
“and looks like Andrew Garfield”Is this supposed to imply that he’s really attractive?! You probably should have just stopped with “single and famous”.
now seriously, sex can be a hell of an addictive experience once you start having it on abundance. In my particular life story as a gay man, it was the moment I let everything go, accepted myself as a hot guy and ended up having sex every weekend then twice a week then more than three times then totally addicted to grindr and I really was lucky not to get too deep into that spiral, but yet I could not forgive myself for not having sex with others for the space of one week. And it was trippy. Fortunately I had a bike accident, I lost my front teeth and I met my current boyfriend shortly after. EDIT: my point before I digressed talking about me me me, is that once you have something for granted, not having it is pure fasting. Call it privilege if you might, as Andrew Garfield is way hotter than I am after all.
Fair enough, I’ll allow this.
“Yeah that’s the fasting, dude.”
Yeah he said that, dude. It’s part of what you quoted.
For six whole months he says? He must have went to the moon and back!
Yeah if that were even close to being real there would be masses of asexual’s all out of their gourds.
Being that it was preparation for a Mormon character I think, then it could have also included abstaining from masturbation, which is a much more difficult feat I believe.
“Some people accidentally go six months without having sex, much less seek praise for forgoing intercourse for a measly half-year.”
I know we go on a bit about the quality of writing here, but what the heck does this sentence mean?
I’m thinking it means Gabrielle isn’t impressed.
You should see how long it’s been since Gabrielle has gotten laid! You call THAT a dry spell, Andrew Garfield?? Try being an AV Club writer!
It seems pretty clear to me. Not sure where the confusion lies.
It’s poorly written, any english speaker can see that.
“It’s poorly written, any english speaker can see that.”We’re letting the person who wrote THIS^^ sentence judge good writing??
It seems pretty clear to me. Not sure where the confusion lies.It has two problems. First, it should say “seeking” praise rather than “seek” praise. Second, it intends to say that some people don’t seek praise for a six-month period of sexual abstinence, but it ends up saying that people go six months without seeking praise for six-month period of sexual abstinence.
I’m not saying it’s well-written, just that the intended meaning is clear.
Have a cookie.
Thanks.
He couldn’t think of any terrible jokes so he had to feign confusion over the writing. Gotta get that comment quota somehow!
Who said anything about feign?
It’s really clear what it means.
It means that Andrew Garfield was asked about his process and answered it, which to the AVClub means that he was BEGGING FOR PRAISE about it because the AVClub is populated by assholes who hate celebrities.
It’s a little awkward. I might reword it as, “He’s looking for praise for a measly six months of abstinence, a length of time that many people hit completely on accident.”
Some people accidentally go six months without having sex, and after that time they would hardly seek praise for forgoing intercourse for a measly half-year.
Can we talk about her commercials where she shills for some bingo phone app? Are times that tough for her?
Gien the $$ those apps rake in she probably made or is making bank for a partial day’s work.
I mean, I get that it probably pays well, but it’s strange. Like seeing Owen Wilson doing a Safelite commercial. It just doesn’t seem right.
Now him I could see needing the money because he invested in a mink farm in Memphis Texas and bought matching wardrobes for the 75 puggles he adopted.
Her family has taken weirder gigs.
No, that seems exactly right.
Cash grab before everything crashes, I’m afraid
I hope she’s getting paid in gold or bullets then
I think it’s funny that folks always ask if times are tough when an actor does a commercial. A friend of mine was trying to say the same thing about Jon Hamm doing Progressive commercials. Are y’all really saying you wouldn’t take a million dollars for an easy day’s work? It’s not about times being tough. It’s about stacking paper with something you could do in your sleep.
It’s about stacking paper with something you could do in your sleep.I fully get that, but there is the risk of diluting your brand. Especially if the commercial winds up saturating the airwaves. Given the (sometimes) clever bent that Progressive commercials take, though, I think the Hamm spots probably appeal to his sense of fun.
Meh, that’s the same thing my friend said, but a million dollars is a million dollars. What good is the brand if you can’t use it to sell things? That’s exactly what a brand is for. Plus, as we see with actors over and over again, popularity can take a nosedive at literally any time. You could get a sexual harassment charge against you (whether it’s real or fake), you could slap somebody silly at the Oscars, you could just fall out of style. I think it’s smart for actors to capitalize while they can, strike while the iron’s hot, get while the gettin’s good, and all of that. You can baby your brand all you want but at the end of the day whether you’re popular or not is out of your control. No reason to pass up easy money.And yes Jon Hamm definitely loves the chance to open up and be silly. I bet all those years playing the dour character on Mad Men was probably kind of rough for him, seriously.
“ I bet all those years playing the dour character on Mad Men was probably kind of rough for him, seriously.”There’s a probably a reason why he went to rehab pretty much immediately after the show ended.
I’m generally fine with stars doing commercials. But, and I admit I haven’t really done any research for this, I find this online gambling apps (and I guess she’s not doing a sports one or anything–it’s bingo) slightly reprehensible due to having a friend who got hooked on them. It seems to go against Drew’s public persona–again, maybe I’m completely off and it’s just a fun bingo app that isn’t potentially hooking people into blowing a lot of money. (And yet, I also admit, I have no issue with celebs shilling booze, so I’m a hypocrite 😛 )
I agree that online gambling apps are pretty gross. And I think it’s totally fair to judge an actor by what products they shill for, just not fair to judge them for shilling for products in general.
And yes Jon Hamm definitely loves the chance to open up and be silly. I
bet all those years playing the dour character on Mad Men was probably
kind of rough for him, seriously.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you should absolutely check out the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” episode that he’s in (season 10, maybe?). He’s playing himself preparing to do a “Larry David-type” character so he starts shadowing Larry, and ends up perfectly capturing the essence of the character.
Thanks for the tip – I’ve just been looking at the scenes on YouTube. I love Jon Hamm in comedies. He was wasted on Mad Men.
I can’t think of a comedy I’ve seen him in, but “wasted on Mad Men”??? Unless you’re referring to the epic alcohol abuse on that show.
Wasted in two ways then! I exaggerate for effect, but my point is that he is fucking hilarious in comedic roles and needs to be doing more of them. He’s great in the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (particularly in the Interactive special) and in Good Omens (as well as, obviously, Sylvester’s tip of Curb Your Enthusiasm).
I will!
I bet all those years playing the dour character on Mad Men was probably kind of rough for him, seriously.
Elisabeth Moss seems to have come through ok.
I think Chloe Sevigny once said she decided it was better for her to do commercials for money than bad movies because commercials disappear after a while and are never seen again whereas bad movies hang around forever
I thought Michael Caine said that.
Get away from me
Maybe. Still, I feel like she did the Bingo ad with the promise that it would only air in Europe and they lied to her. It’s a cheaply made commercial – like a Ricola or Mentos ad. The Progressive ads are at least well made.
I feel like there was a time when it was considered “undignified” for film actors to do commercials, aside from those for a handful of luxury goods, such as cologne and watches. That’s why the likes of Nic Cage, Harrison Ford, and Tommy Lee Jones had to sneak of to Japan to do their commercials.
I’m reminded of Bill Murray’s character in Lost in Translation. Anyway yeah I agree that was true some years ago, but I think it’s becoming increasingly commonplace now to the point that it really should no longer be raising eyebrows. Even rich folks are getting in on the gig economy.
“It’s like breaking the fucking social contract you have with your audience”, according to Russell Crowe.
I hereby release Russell Crowe from the social contract I have with him. But I’m going to hold onto the social contract I have with Ana De Armas until she caves on the, admittedly, rather one sided negotiations we been engaged in.
Does that include releasing him from your basement?
That sump pump aint pumping itself.
I have a social contract to fuck my audience?
It’s an old perception from when artists pursuing artless endeavors for the sake of money was looked down upon. It’s a negative in our culture that we’ve become so money obsessed that few care anymore, and that the criticism is seen as juvenile and stupid. An inevitable negative, unfortunately. Wait until you see the grown version of the current wave of kids who have grown up watching streamers and influencers who are famous and wildly wealthy for almost nothing other than being voyeurs. All this while education rates slide in the richest country in the world.
“and that the criticism is seen as juvenile and stupid”First of all, I never said the criticism was juvenile or stupid. Second of all, you might think it’s a “negative” that I don’t understand the criticism, but I think it’s a “negative” and super snobby for anyone to say something like “artists pursuing artless endeavors for the sake of money.” First of all, who the fuck are you to call actors doing acting on commercials “artless”? Second of all, who the fuck are you to say that just because someone is an “artist” everything they do has to be “art”? Does that apply to any other job? I’m a lawyer; does that mean everything I do has to be law-related? Third of all, who the fuck are you to say that actors shouldn’t do what they can to earn extra money just like everyone else in this capitalist hellscape? Someone mentioned Taylor Swift, who gives enormous amounts of money to charity. Maybe her Capital One commercials help fund that? “Wait until you see the grown version of the current wave of kids who have grown up watching streamers and influencers who are famous and wildly wealthy for almost nothing other than being voyeurs.”And this has nothing to do with this conversation at all, since Drew Barrymore, Jon Hamm, and Taylor Swift hardly count as “streamers and influencers who are famous and wildly wealthy for almost nothing…”
I mean it is shitty tho to look down on artist for wanting to cash a cheque though. For some reason non-artists dont seem to understand that professional artists also need to eat food and pay rent. It really blows my mind when people are like “whaaaat such and such director isnt doing it for the art?!?! What the fucking shit!” It’s like…. artists aren’t audience members slaves lmao. It’s ridiculous.
“It’s a negative in our culture that we’ve become so money obsessed that few care anymore, and that the criticism is seen as juvenile and stupid.”Nah dude, we need to stop romanticising/fetishising the “starving artist”, that shit is toxic. Never mind the whole question of what is “artful” or “artless”, which is some more bullshit.
None of these people are starving. There are entire industries gone because already very rich and successful actors have replaced them. Dedicated voice actors, commercial actors, etc. are fast replaced by already very wealthy very famous people further expanding their wealth and status in culture.
Let’s see … I work in an industry where my good looks are my meal ticket … and someone offers to pay me because of said good looks (and assumed personality behind those good looks)? Yeah that’s called “going to work”, not “times are tough”.
Hey, Taylor Swift did Capital One commercials and she’s worth $360 million.
I’m not sure if this means to agree with me or disagree with me lol, but yeah, commercials aren’t just for the strugglers anymore, and I don’t think anyone could say that Taylor Swift’s brand is any kind of diluted.
I think that is more that Flo was in the first season of Mad Men and her and Jon were friends. The joke about her dating Jon before he was famous is more inside baseball.
Oh that’s a fun fact. I didn’t know that.
Reminds me of 15 years ago or so when the British comedy duo of David Mitchell & Robert Webb did the “I’m a Mac/And I’m a PC” there (yes, Apple localized them to different countries). People asked them why they did that and they honestly said it was because for about three days of work they got paid roughly the same amount as they did for an entire season of one of their shows.
Jon Hamm is a great example – his breakout role was on cable television, which was considered a very low rung until the last 20 years or so. American actors appearing in American commercials had the same stigma, and they’ve also shed it.
Before he broke, Brian Cranston did a ton of commercials, for pretty much anything. He said it’s was a great place to learn how to be a professional— you memorize your lines, you talk to the director about what they’re looking for, you hit the mark, you do your bit, you get paid. Usually in a day. Book for or five of those a month and living expenses are covered. If an ad goes national, you get residuals.
I know a girl who does commercials now and she gets paid $30k per if it’s a national spot! I was like dannnng, and she’s not famous or anything.
That’s what Cranston said– he made a good living off commercials for a number of years, and he couldn’t understand why actors who wanted to work got so sniffy about them.
If she saved her BBT $$$ I shouldn’t think she’d ever need to leave her house again.
I can’t tell you how sad I was when John Goodman and Sharon Stone both offered up their faces and voices to a really shitty app’s really shitty commercials.
take it from whoever will give it to you. those fucking apps pay a shitload of money. kim k paid for kanyes 30 million in debt for doing raid shadow legends commercials or whatever the hell tencent or king was pushing at the time. she made that shit in 1 year.
this girly is rich as fuck. that sounds like easy money lol
Until the last decade or so, Drew Barrymore was basically the object lesson in how childhood stardom ruins a person’s life. Now that she has a pretty comfortable career, I doubt she’s overly concerned about her brand being “likeable person on TV.”
Tommy Lee Jones is still the face of BOSS Coffee in Japan. Are times that hard for him?
Drew Barrymore owns her own production company and has one of the highest rated daytime talk shows. She’s doing alright.
Man, if he thinks six months is hard, then I hope he never gets cast as me in a biopic. Having to realistically depict some of my dry spells would turn him into Ezra Miller.
I’ve had 3.5 years…
However, his showertime has gotten ridiculous.
Is describing his prep work for a role in a response to a question about his prep work for a role “seeking praise?”
Is it not?When people ask me how my day was, or what have you been up to lately… I choose how to respond. If I point out that I gave a homeless guy a sandwich, I’m making a pretty clear choice to put that front and center.
Your mom asking about your day and an actor being asked about his role preparation on a talk show are not the same things.
What if your mom is Drew Barrymore?
Don’t reply to me.
Be kind. Be gentle.
Fuck off.
Gently.
Everything an actor does is in the pursuit of praise or at least attention. It’s the only reason people become actors.
That is a broad brush you’re using there.
Has this movie come out yet? Is he just preparing for us to be wowed? I like Andrew Garfield but this interview does not make him come off very likeable.
why anyone would want to watch a drew berrymore talkshow is beyond me. enjoy i guess
She’s really just kind of an idiot.
I mean, it probably is difficult to abstain for six months when you’re a famous actor and beautiful actresses and models are constantly offering you sex.
At the same time it means you know you can turn that tap on again anytime you want. Not like someone wondering when they’ll ever break the dry spell.
“At the same time it means you know you can turn that tap on again anytime you want.”
Yeah, AND???
He didn’t say he couldn’t turn the tap back on. In FACT, his fucking POINT was that he was purposefully depriving himself.
Jesus, how about you fuck off all the way back to your mother’s rotting cunt?
Billy Bob Thorton confirmed years ago that, despite being married multiple times, he never got married for the sex. It’s not hard to come by when you’re a well-known film actor. “Just call one of your regulars,” he said. “It’s no big deal.” Dunno if he meant fuck buddies or sex workers, but I’d believe either one.
I assume the former rather than the latter.
If he also didnt jerk off for those six months also, that would be something.
That would just result in needing to change the sheets a lot.
Does this really happen? This is an odd af comment for me to make but, I’m age 31 and I have never experienced a wet dream. Obviously I masturbate etc but like…. are those real? I’ve never had anything that even resembles a wet dream. When I was a kid I assumed it was like an extremely common thing for dudes. Maybe I should see a doctor? But yah like age 31 just, nope.
I can only say for myself, but it happened as a teenager. Never happened at older ages but I think could happen if you never had any masturbation or other ‘outlet’ for a long time.
I think that’s a key element this article fails to address and could change the context dramatically.
I’ve been married for 25 years. The idea of six months of no sex being some amazing dealbreaker is….hilarious.
Yeah this definitely dehumanizes Andrew Garfield a bit for me. This is the very opposite of feeling like celebrities are like us.
Is he still dating Emma Stone? Because that influences my opinion of his celibacy.
Emma Stone got married to someone else in 2020 and has a kid, so I’m gonna guess the answer to your query is ‘no’.
D’oh! Google is my friend. Shoulda checked.
Good. I’ve hated him ever since he made that stupid comment about how Spider-Man makes his suit despite sewing being a feminine thing, that Emma Stone got up from the panel and publicly corrected him for. As a professional puppeteer and puppet designing I’ve been waiting years to look him in the face and tell him to go fuck himself.
That day is gonna come, my friend.
There’s all kinds of married.
Does he think Mormons don’t have sex? I just did a quick look and his character in that show was married. I mean, they are allowed to have sex with their spouses. And even if it’s just for procreation, they do a lot of procreating…
I’m certainly no fan of method acting or boasting about sex, but this “calling him out for his bullshit” type of article feels pretty unnecessary in this case, no? By all accounts that I’ve heard, he’s a pretty nice guy and has never caused problems with his co-workers or anything, seems like he doesn’t take the method acting as far as some people do (hell, he even says as much in his quote there). And I’m not sure his 6-months abstinence was even really “boasting” in context, but idk. Regardless, I’m sure the dude’s not perfect, and perhaps he didn’t really need to say that, but I feel like there are far worse people doing worse things that articles could be written about than a silly thing Andrew Garfield said one time that he probably didn’t think deeply about before saying
idk it’s kind of reverse boasting. Six months really isn’t a long time to go without sex so like what he’s really saying here is “I have so much sex so often that this was a mind numbing experience for me to go (not a long time) without sex, I feel so accomplished (because I’m always having sex)”. And if he isn’t deliberately bragging here than it makes him seem detached from normal people and I don’t think that’s a vibe celebrities want for their brand either. My guess is that he is a bit detached from ‘normal people’ and he didn’t realize he was making an alienating comment. Which kinda makes me think he’s a douche.
Actors answer questions in an interview and some of these motherfuckers act like the actor did a press conference in their front yard. This pop culture site sure is popular with people who hate pop culture.
Jacking off counts, Garfield. You won’t have the same raging blue balls issues if you think causing a UTI will make the difference in your performance.
So, did he have 0.5 children? That would do it.
But did he tell anyone about the time he went backpacking through Western Europe?
He wasn’t seeking praise. He was being interviewed about it. This is so lame.
to be fair, his comments read as someone who takes themselves way too seriously trying to be relatable and down to earth.
Psh…I did 18 years once. Amateur
Whenever someone defends method acting they just emphasize why everyone makes fun of method acting.
yeaaaah I don’t think Andrew Garfield is the person to change what Jared Leto spoiled in my head about method acting. Sorry.
“he abstained from sex for six months.”Goof thing life is infinity and beyond right. Talk about wrong priorities
FFS some people just LOVE listening to podcasts and shitting on what people say. Is that the new thing? A nice long form interview gets picked fucking APART? The person sat down for 90 minutes, and goes in depth on random things AS ASKED TO. Drew Barrymore: nobody fucking asked you. This shit is catty.
Bajillions of ppl, from every background, persuasion, and relationship status go without fir at least 6 months between sex. It’s routine.
“What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time?”