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this morning we are joined by two
incredibly talented actors who are
teaming up in a new series we of course
all know andrew garfield for playing the
web slinger spider-man also nominated
for an academy award this year for his
role in tick tick boom ah yes and daisy
edgar jones first caught our eye and i
love it so much the romantic drama
series normal people now
they both star in a grizzly new true
crime show it's called under the banner
of heaven andrew plays a fictional
detective named jeb pyre a mormon who
has his faith challenged after the the
real life murder of daisy's character
brenda lafferty if you turned your back
on heavenly father
i'm confident that forensics will have
proved your guilt
by tomorrow morning
i melt with her in the temple
i brought her to church with my family
you look at these as signs of innocence
but they aren't did you break your
covenant so she threatened to leave you
is that what happened
i can imagine the fights
that why you killed her
very rarely do we you get three
that might be the first
third
true crime is a huge genre right now
um have you always been fans of of the
drama
of the genre i love true crime i do too
yeah it's a really compelling thing it's
become weirdly a kind of comfort genre
for people i think during the pandemic
weirdly i don't know what that is maybe
because i haven't well i have no idea
but i find it kind of fascinating but
this story particularly is
is quite um a vital one because it is a
true crime story um and the character
that daisy plays it's you know a
horrible thing that she goes through
with her daughter and
the the intention with this was really
to tell a story that's really compelling
but also to honor you know brenda
lafferty and her and her daughter erica
it's interesting because you know crime
aside the show takes place across two
separate timelines right if you will so
you have no scenes together but you have
such chemistry
how did you guys build that connection
well how do we how do we find a thing to
do together oh that's mike
i know we need to
yeah it was interesting because
obviously we were filming in calgary for
about five months but we never had any
scenes together and it's always fun when
you're in something and there's so much
of it that you're not involved in that
you can watch it with fresh eyes as a
viewer so i'm like so excited to see the
scenes that i have we heard there were
dance parties involved oh yeah really
daisy gets it going yeah
i'm dressed for a disco right now it's
probably helpful because the content can
be i'm sure heavy yeah so to have a
dance party i'm sure it was probably
helpful yeah you do need to find balance
yeah it was a strange thing i've never
had that on a show before usually i'm
very kind of immersed in the thing and
kind of i like taking my work home in a
way because it enhances my life but with
this i think all of us we were in the
trenches together and we had to have a
lot of gallows humor we had to dance a
lot we had to play board games we had to
go on hikes we had to remind ourselves
yeah in order to be able to dive back
into the material the next day i think i
mean your character again it's a
fictional one but it's based on this
true story a book 2003 by john krakauer
as you know at the time there was some
controversy surrounding how the church
was portrayed in this particular book
did that affect how you prepared for the
role at all or no i think we wanted to
be really sensitive and luckily the
person who adapted the book from the
great krakauer um krakauer book is
dustin lance black who is an ex-mormon
himself and he's he was our show runner
and our director and our writer and he
has a real
affinity with the church still even
though he left the church a bunch of
years ago so he has a real kind of
kindness and a warmth and a connection
to the mormon church while also doing
that really hard and important work of
shedding light into the nooks and
crannies of an organization that maybe
hasn't seen seen light in a while and to
tell the truth about this organization
and i think the truth can only be a good
thing to to bring to light and the truth
will always out and i think dustin lance
black has done a kind of amazing amazing
job here speaking of of truths uh andrew
you were you were here recently uh just
before the spider-man movie the latest
spider-man movie came out and you it was
so wonderful seeing you in tokyo
i i i'm not in the film
god
it is kind of shocking to witness how
good i am at that you're such a good
actor you just talked about truth
that's what i'm saying that's why i
brought that up andrew
after just watching this video would
there be any scenario where andrew
garfield is in another spider suit or in
some part of the marvel universe see my
arm's just crushed
i'm watching you
i'm a really bad poker player believe it
or not but like no matter what i say at
this point i am a known liar so like
it's it's over for me like oh my god
there's nothing i can say that can
you know i'm not going to satisfy you
well it's done
you're always satisfied
wait before
this morning daisy i don't know if you
saw our show earlier this morning we
talked about the fact that the crown is
looking for an actress to play uh
duchess kate middleton and so i don't
know if you've seen it but all over
twitter people are weighing in
and so many people
think that you should be kate middleton
in the crown oh my gosh that's the first
i've heard of that really yeah oh my
gosh oh yeah people love you that's cool
okay what do you think yeah exactly
which i don't know
i mean i wouldn't say no oh
[Laughter]
it's an affinity thing
can you tell us well yes i mean so it's
coming out in july and um and yeah i
really hope that that fans of the book
will be will be um happy with it in our
adaptation i think we've done a really
good job of honoring honoring it so yeah
i'm really excited for people to see it
okay are you going to be in the next
spider-man though
i sense a theme that's good you guys are
a delight you guys too thanks for having
us thank you thank you andrew daisy
thanks to both of you fx is under the
banner of heaven premieres tomorrow
april 28th exclusively on hulu
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