Drew Barrymore has revealed that she is perfectly fine with abstinence and could go "years" without having sex.
According to Entertainment Tonight, during an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show on September 20, the 47-year-old actress and her co-host Ross Mathews discussed Andrew Garfield being celibate for six months to prepare for his role in 2016's Silence.
Seemingly unimpressed with the 39-year-old Amazing Spider-Man's method acting, Barrymore said: "I was like, 'Yeah, so?'" to which Ross chimed in and joked: "That's the headline: 'Drew can go six months, no big deal'."
The TV show host then corrected the 42-year-old and said that she could easily refrain from any sexual activity for "years" before adding: "What's wrong with me that six months doesn't seem like a very long time?"
Method acting is when actors use a series of techniques - often off-set - in order to bring themselves closer to the character to create realistic performances.
The 50 First Dates star said that she understands why actors practice the method and said that they "transform and fully commit" themselves to a character during filming.
"I definitely [did], on certain projects, like when I did Grey Gardens, this film I did where I played beloved real-life woman Edie Beale," Barrymore disclosed. "I was so nervous I didn't really chit chat with everybody on set, I just really stayed in character."
Barrymore's reveal came one month after the Hacksaw Ridge actor spoke about the lengths he went to portray the 17th-century priest in Silence on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast.
"There were all the spiritual practices we got to do while we were praying, meditating, having all the intentions we had as those characters," Garfield began.
"It was very cool, man. I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food for that period of time," he added, before explaining that there are "misconceptions" around what method acting is.
"People are still acting in that way, and it’s not about being an a***ole to everyone on set. It’s actually just about living truthfully under imagined circumstances, 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," he said.
"I'm kind of bothered by the misconception," he added, explaining that he is "kind of bothered" by someone's perception of the practice, saying: "I don't think you know what method acting is if you're calling it bulls**t".
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