Andrew Garfield on How Jessica Chastain Helped Him Visit His Dying Mom

Andrew Garfield is recalling how Jessica Chastain ensured he received to spend time along with his mom, Lynn Garfield, earlier than she died of pancreatic most cancers in 2019.

The actor lately expressed in an interview with Individuals journal that he can be without end “grateful” for his The Eyes of Tammy Faye co-star for her assist throughout that tough time.

“What was wonderful was that [Searchlight Pictures’ David Greenbaum] and Jessica rearranged the schedule last-minute — put filming on maintain [in North Carolina] for a couple of days in order that I may return [to England] and be with my mother for 10 days,” he stated.

Garfield added that he and Chastain “would have deep conversations as a result of we have been each attending to know one another as individuals. I’m actually very grateful for that point together with her as a result of it was the time when my mum was actually sick and finally handed away.”

The 2 actors starred within the 2021 biopic concerning the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, who went on to create the world’s largest non secular broadcasting community and a Christian theme park. Garfield portrayed Jim Bakker, reverse Chastain’s Tammy.

The We Stay in Time star additionally remembered a “lovely ritual” he and Christian had whereas filming the film, the place she would decide him up and they’d drive to Heritage USA, the Bakker’s now-closed Christian theme park.

“Each Sunday, we might go down there,” Garfield advised the outlet. “And it was a mixture of making an attempt to commune with the spirit of Jim and Tammy and the place the place they arrange their temple, in a approach, to their god but in addition to themselves.”

Final month, The Superb Spider-Man actor advised The Hollywood Reporter that filming his newest movie We Stay in Time, reverse Florence Pugh, had been a therapeutic expertise following the dying of his mom at age 69.

“Each species of each residing factor on this earth has misplaced a mom. Younger dinosaurs have been dropping their moms,” he stated on the time. “So when it comes to my very own private expertise, yeah, it felt like a quite simple act of therapeutic for myself, and hopefully therapeutic for an viewers.”