Andrew Garfield is recalling how Jessica Chastain ensured he got to spend time with his mother, Lynn Garfield, before she died of pancreatic cancer in 2019. The actor recently expressed in an interview with People magazine that he will be forever "grateful" for his The Eyes of Tammy Faye co-star for her help during that difficult time.

Andrew Garfield has praised his The Eyes of Tammy Faye co-star Jessica Chastain and Searchlight Pictures producer David Greenbaum for halting production on the film to allow him to be with his dying mother, Lynn Garfield. Garfield and Chastain starred as televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in the 2021 biopic, which was filmed in 2019.

Andrew Garfield is forever ‘very grateful’ for his time with Jessica Chastain while they filmed ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ in 2019. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Garfield recalled how Chastain ensured he got to see his mom,

It was a really sweet time, I wouldn’t have missed it.” 'We Live in Time':Why the movie was 'healing' for Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield Garfield, 41, came up with a whole backstory for the street sweeper, including a name. “Fernando,” Garfield ...

The actor could not be joined by his co-star Florence Pugh at the BFI London Film Festival so he did the next best thing.

The saying that “all press is good press” perpetuates, even as the media industry and how we consume content rapidly changes. And the person who keeps that phrase near the top of our cultural minds is probably also the publicist for one deranged looking horse that won viral attention over the summer.