Andrew Garfield on how Jessica Chastain helped him visit his dying mother

Andrew Garfield remembers how Jessica Chastain made sure he could spend time with his mother, Lynn Garfield, before she died of pancreatic cancer in 2019.

The actor made the comments in a recent interview with People magazine that he will forever be “grateful.” The eyes of Tammy Faye co-star for her help during this difficult time.

“That was the amazing thing [Searchlight Pictures’ David Greenbaum] and Jessica changed the schedule at the last minute – filming was put on hold [in North Carolina] for a few days so I could go back [to England] and be with my mother for ten days,” he said.

Garfield added that he and Chastain would have “deep conversations because we both got to know each other as people.” I’m really grateful for the time with her because it was the time when my mother was very sick and eventually passed away .”

The two actors starred in the 2021 biopic about the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, who later founded the world’s largest religious broadcast network and a Christian theme park. Garfield portrayed Jim Bakker alongside Chastain’s Tammy.

The We live in time The star also recalled a “beautiful ritual” he and Christian had during filming in which she picked him up and they drove to Heritage USA, Bakker’s now-closed Christian theme park.

“Every Sunday we went there,” Garfield told the outlet. “And it was a combination of trying to get in touch with the spirit of Jim and Tammy and the place where they built their temple, in a way with their God, but also with themselves.”

Last month, The Amazing Spider-Man Actor told The Hollywood Reporter that he is filming his latest film We live in timealongside Florence Pugh, had been a healing experience following the death of his mother at the age of 69.

“Every species of every living thing on earth has lost a mother. Young dinosaurs lost their mothers,” he said at the time. “So in terms of my personal experience, it felt like a very simple act of healing for myself and hopefully healing for an audience.”