Andrew Garfield Believes 'Under the Banner of Heaven' Is the Show We Need Right Now
), Andrew Garfield is stepping into his first leading role on television, playing a devout Mormon detective in the new FX limited seriesBased on Jon Krakauer’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name and created for television by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black, the seven-part miniseries follows the events that led to the brutal murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby daughter, Erica, in Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1984.
Yeah, I did a lot of research. I traveled to Salt Lake City and the neighboring towns and hung out in Utah for a bit and hooked up with lots of really great interesting people—some ex-Mormons, some current Mormons, some bishops in the Mormon faith. [Even] Mormon detectives who have been through the exact struggle that my character goes through on a case where it’s horrendous acts that are being justified in the name of Heavenly Father, in the name of their God.
Also, to play a police officer, there’s lots of jargon and lingo. I am the audience’s eyes, uncovering the story with the audience as we go, so there was a procedural element that I had never been a part of. Gil Birmingham would say, “How are you feeling playing a cop in a procedural [drama]?” [] I’m like, “This is challenging, dude, to keep this dialogue alive and to keep the interrogation scenes alive.
You’ve spoken openly about the profound impact that loss has had on your life, and you’ve played a number of characters that are forced to reckon with their own faith in different ways. How has your personal relationship with faith and religion changed over the years?
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