Andrew Garfield has compared starring in his Broadway play to a "sweat lodge".
The 34-year-old actor admitted working on ‘Angels in America’ – a two-part epic which has a total run time of close to eight hours – is exhausting and he has never had a "great show" because it takes so much out of him.
He admitted: "There’s something about the exhaustion. It’s like doing a sweat lodge. Because it’s seven-and-a-half hours, you never have a great show.
"We all come of at the end of a two-show day and go, ‘It was f**king great, and it was f***ing awful.’ "
But Andrew tries not to "feel sorry" for himself too much because he feels so "privileged" to be a part of the play, which examines AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s.
He added in an interview with Variety: "But as soon as I start to feel sorry for myself that I’ve been given this duty of attempting to make sense of this play and give it to people, I immediately get knocked sideways.
"I go, ‘Shut the f**k up. This is such a privilege to honour the souls that didn’t make it through and to honour the souls that did."
And the British actor admitted he needs to do a lot of "decompression" after a performance in order to fully relax.
He said: "It’s only acting, after all, but if you’re doing your job properly, you’re convincing your body that it’s going through what the character is going through.
"There’s a lot of decompression needed. I watch stupid television, Netflix kind of stuff — although not necessarily stupid. I’ve been watching ‘The Good Place’, which is not stupid at all. It’s very smart that is always incredibly funny."
Andrew Garfield’s gruelling shows
