With every project, Andrew Garfield is ultimately digging for the molten core of how to be human
Photo: ALANA PATERSON/The New York Times/Redux We’re experiencing something of a Garfieldaissance at the moment: Andrew Garfield has starred in four projects released since 2020 — not to mention a surprise cameo in Spiderman: No Way Home that caused heart palpitations in movie theaters everywhere — the latest being his role as Mormon police officer Jeb Pyre in the new FX series Under the Banner of Heaven, based on the true-crime book of the same name.
Watching Under the Banner of Heaven not long after I saw The Eyes of Tammy Faye got me thinking — it seems like there’s a through-line in your career of projects that address institutional corruption, as early as The Social Network. Is there something that draws you to those kinds of projects? All of those things interest me, but mostly it’s about how to live. I am curious about how human beings organize themselves — how do we make meaning as we live? Religion and spirituality is kind of the quickest way to do a study on how we do that and where we go wrong, where we go right. Hopefully every project I do is a kind of attempt to get to a North Star of meaning and how we make lives of true aliveness.
We can be very tempted to sacrifice our own truth, sacrifice our own knowing, for the sake of belonging, of being accepted, of being liked, of being safe and protected and fed and clothed — all of those things. Absolutely, there’s a tension there to be acutely aware of.
I did speak to certain people who have had the same experience that Jeb has had — detectives who are in certain organized religions, who had big crises of their faith because of the cases that they were on and how it related to their faith and how it was these horrific acts done in the name of their God. It was humbling for sure, and it enabled me to treat Jeb as a real person.
Jeb knows if he’s to do his job properly, he has to reckon with the deep wounds of the past in order to understand how this happened and to make sure it doesn’t happen again in his vicinity, on his watch. He would like nothing more than to put a Band-Aid on it and just move on. But as more information is revealed to him, he realizes, Oh, I can’t. I have to keep picking at this scab in order to fully honor Brenda and Erica Lafferty, these two innocent people who were murdered so horrifically.
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