Thanks to Lorna for pointing out this new interview.

Andrew Garfield did work experience on a local newspaper to prepare for his role in Red Riding – but he was saved the tea round once they found out who he was.

The Lions For Lambs star plays a rookie journalist in the first instalment of new Channel 4 film trilogy Red Riding, and he took steps to make sure he was prepared for the part.

“I read books, I researched the period as much as I could, I spent some time at the Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds. I did some work experience there for a week – I just shadowed people, I didn’t report unfortunately. That would have been interesting,” he said.

He continued: “I spent a lot of time at the crown courts just observing cases and shadowing the journalist doing murder trials and very very big cases that were on while I was up there so that was really useful.

“I tried to live the day-to-day of it so I’m coming in in front of the camera with some kind of idea that I could believe in rather than just putting it on.

“No one knew who I was, that was fantastic, but then one person looked me up online and saw that I’d worked with certain people and suddenly my status raised tenfold, then it wasn’t as useful because people were treating me differently which is silly, utterly, silly, they stopped me doing the tea round and all that!”

:: Red Riding begins on Channel 4 on March 5.

Cool a new project!

Source: Metro.

By Vicki • February 23, 2009 • Articles & Interviews • Comments: 0

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