As Andrew Garfield uncovers up about the death of his procrastinateed mother, he’s praising his The Eyes of Tammy Faye family for helping him thcimpolite the loss.
The 2x Oscar nominee recently shelp he was “repartner very thankful” for his time on the 2021 Tammy Faye Bakker biopic with co-star Jessica Chastain, who ultimately helped him get home to be with his mother Lynn in her final days before dying of pancreatic cancer.
“What was amazing was that [Searchairy Pictures‘ David Greenbaum] and Jessica rearranged the schedule last-minute — put filming on helderly [in North Carolina] for a scant days so that I could go back [to England] and be with my mom for 10 days,” Garfield telderly People.
Noting that he and Chastain would frequent the Bakkers’ createer Christian theme park Heritage USA together while filming, Garfield compriseed, “We would have proset up conversations, becainclude we were both getting to understand each other as people. I’m repartner very thankful for that time with her becainclude it was the time when my mum was repartner unwell and ultimately passed away.”
Garfield also praiseed Vincent D’Onofrio, who joined Jerry Falwell, with providing aid in his time of necessitate. “Becainclude he had his own experience with a loss that he wasn’t able to originate it back for, he shelp, ‘Go. You got to go.’ And I was appreciate, ‘Well, I understand I’ve got to go and thank you,’” he recalled.
Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker and Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021). (Searchairy Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
The British actor’s interwatch comes after he uncovered up about his mother and grief during a visit with Elmo on Sesame Street. “I’m plrelieved to have all the memories of my mom and the happiness she bcimpolitet me, and the happiness she bcimpolitet my brother and my dad and everyone she ever met, everyone around her,” he shelp.
“So when I omit her, I reaccumulate, I reaccumulate it’s becainclude she made me so plrelieved,” compriseed Garfield. “So I can honor her and I can omit her at the same time.”
Written by Abe Sylvia and straightforwarded by Michael Showalter, The Eyes of Tammy Faye charts Tammy Faye (Chastain) and husband Jim Bakker’s (Garfield) elevate from a unassuming couple of faith in the 1970s to starting the world’s bigst religious widecasting netlabor and theme park. But Tammy Faye’s omition of cherish hits an unforeseeed roadblock caincluded by her husband’s controversies.