 Arachnologists Yuri M. Marusik and Alireza Zamani honored Garfield's portrayal of the role by naming a new species of crevice weaver spider, "Pritha garfieldi", after him.Following a year-long absence from the screen, Garfield had starring roles in two films of 2016, Martin Scorsese's drama "Silence" and Mel Gibson's war film "Hacksaw Ridge".In the former, based on Shūsaku Endō's 1966 novel of the same name, Garfield played Sebastião Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit priest in the seventeenth century who travels to Japan to spread his faith.