Andrew Garfield Shares What Kept Him Sane While Shooting Under The Banner Of Heaven
Andrew Garfield has received his first Primetime Emmy nomination for his role in Hulu's Under the Banner of Heaven. The true-crime series features Garfield as Detective Jeb Pyre, who is investigating the horrid double-murder of Brenda Lafferty (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her 15-month-old daughter Erica. In shooting a series as grim as this one for six months, Garfield revealed how he and his co-stars would decompress.
Hulu's Under the Banner of Heaven not only recounts the tragic events of the double-murder from the 1980s but draws on the history of Mormonism and fundamentalists. Under the Banner of Heaven explores how someone's devotion to their faith could have been cited as the reason for such a grizzly crime. This was first done by the John Krakauer novel that the Hulu series adapted.
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Jeb Pyre is a fictional character created for Under the Banner of Heaven, though Garfield found it important to ensure that it felt real given the true nature of the crime. Krakauer's novel drew on the actual detectives that investigated the 1980s double-murder. With that level of devotion, Garfield and other members of Under the Banner of Heaven's cast needed to find ways to deal with the darkness of the series. To do so, Garfield and the cast did a few things to stay in a headspace that would allow them to continue working. «We played a lot of board games,» Garfield said to Entertainment Weekly. «We watched a lot of movies, and we ate a lot of good food, and we went on hikes and dove in lakes and took in the natural wonders of Alberta and Canada.»
Garfield went on to discuss the importance of camaraderie between Under the Banner of Heaven's cast on and off-screen. Garfield noted that
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