Andrew Garfield Has a Crisis of Faith in ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Trailer

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the trailer for FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven.”The seven-episode limited series follows the events that led to the 1984 murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty (played by “Normal People” star Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her baby daughter in a suburb in Salt Lake Valley, Utah.

Garfield plays Detective Jeb Pyre, who is tasked with investigating the murders.As he tracks the events that transpired within the Lafferty family, he uncovers buried truths about the origins of the LDS religion and the violent consequences of unyielding faith.

During FX’s press panel for the series on Tuesday, Garfield said it was an easy decision to make this his next role. “I was kind of convinced right away that this was just an incredible group of creative people that were going to not only honor what Jon Krakauer wrote, but also honor Brenda Lafferty and Erica Lafferty and really unpick the rot at the core of what enabled such evil to take place,” he said.In the trailer released Tuesday, Garfield’s Detective Pyre has tears in his eyes as he walks through the grisly murder scene with bloody handprints on the walls and baby toys still strewn about. “The evidence points to things and to beliefs that I have only ever heard whisperings about,” he says, before he’s warned not to “go digging in the past.”However, it appears he won’t be taking that advice. “What if this case isn’t just a husband who turned against his wife?

What if tonight is just the first edge of a bone, finally working its way out of our own desert’s floor?” he ponders. “Under the Banner of Heaven” is just one of Garfield’s recent projects where his character must wrestle with quite heavy questions of about faith and purpose.