silence

When you have the opportunity to work with someone like Martin Scorsese, you don’t let it go to waste…even if it means you must put your body through hell.

Andrew Garfield stars in the director’s new drama Silence, which opens for a limited release Dec. 23. The film has been receiving a lot of love from critics, and that has to make Garfield a very happy man because he put in a lot of hard work to master his character.

He and his co-star Adam Driver play 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel to Japan looking for their mentor. Both Garfield and Driver had to lose a ridiculous amount of weight for the movie.

Garfield dropped 40 pounds, which is a little scary because he was already pretty thin to begin with.

“We had to look as if we had been on a long, arduous boat trip from our native Portugal. … Right at the beginning of the film, we kind of had already gone through our dysentery phase. The choice of what costume to wear is the same as losing that amount of weight. It’s just a necessary thing for the reality of the piece. So that was very challenging, not eating is very challenging.”

But it was worth it. Garfield claims that it’s actually fulfilling and satisfying, “You learn a lot of information from emptying out.”

I’m pretty sure the only thing I’d learn was that I really love food.

In addition to the extreme diet, Garfield and Driver also went to a silent retreat in Wales to prepare for their roles.

“It’s a wonderful thing. Just after about three days everything shifts. Your central nervous system just kind of settles down and it becomes normal. You go into all these meditation and prayer rooms and the quiet in there is the loudest thing you’ve ever f–king heard. It’s crazy. You literally go in there and your ears start ringing. it’s the purest silence that you could know.”

It’s a beautiful Monday morning. The Golden Globe nominations were announced, and you know what that means, there are wagons full of people complaining about the snubs.

And since everyone loves focusing on the negative, we’re going to do the same. Below, you’ll find a short list featuring a few of the biggest snubs from the list of nominees in the film categories. If you’d like to check out the full list of nominations, you can click on this link.

Finding Dory

This snub might be the biggest of them all. It was just assumed by almost everyone that Finding Dory would be nominated for Best Animated Feature Film. When the list was released, we were all checking it twice to make sure we were seeing things right. Not only was Finding Dory loved by the critics, but it was also the biggest domestic movie of the year. Both Zootopia and Moana got a nomination, as well as smaller films like Kubo and the Two Strings and My Life as a Zucchini.

It was all silent for Martin Scorsese’s Silence. He might be one of the greatest directors of all time, but the Golden Globes showed him no love. His film didn’t receive a single nomination. It’s pretty surprising, considering most people thought Andrew Garfield would clean up for his performance in the film. The good news for Garfield is that he was in another great movie this year, Hacksaw Ridge. He grabbed a Best Actor nomination for his work in Mel Gibson’s war drama.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Nocturnal Animals grabbed several Golden Globe nominations this year, and for good reason..it’s a legit thriller. Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the movie and his performance was great as usual, but apparently it wasn’t great enough. He did not get nominated for Best Actor, which is extra surprising because he was nominated the past few years for Nightcrawler and even Love and Other Drugs. But honestly, I think they got it right this year. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stole the show in Nocturnal Animals, and he was awarded with a Best Supporting Actor nomination.