Andrew Garfield Says Sex Scene With Florence Pugh in ‘We Live in Time’ Went a ‘Little Bit Further’ Than Intended: ‘We Never Heard Cut’
The upcoming romance film “We Live in Time” stars Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh as a married couple, which required them to film a few steamy scenes — one of which got a little carried away.
During an interview with “Happy Sad Confused” podcast host Josh Horowitz on Friday night in New York City, Garfield recalled a time during filming when he and Pugh didn’t hear their director of photography say “cut,” so they just kept going. Apparently, things got so heated that the cameraman stopped filming and turned away.
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“We do the first take of this very intimate, passionate sex scene. And it’s a closed set, which means it’s only me and Florence in a room together and the camera operator, who is our DP, a very lovely man called Stewart,” Garfield said during the conversation, according to footage posted on social media. “The scene becomes passionate and we choreographed it and we get into it, as it were, and we go a little bit further than we were meant to just because we never heard ‘cut’ and it’s feeling safe and we’re like, ‘OK, we’ll go to the next thing and the next thing, we’ll let this progress.'”
After a while, Garfield said he and Pugh were “telepathically saying to each other, ‘This definitely feels like a longer take.'” Garfield then got up in front of the audience to reenact what the two saw once they stopped the scene.
“I look up, and in the corner is Stewart and our boom operator,” Garfield said to laughter from the crowd. “Stewart has the camera by his side and he’s turned into the wall.”
Directed by John Crowley, “We Live in Time” follows Almut (Pugh), an up-and-coming chef and Tobias (Garfield), a recent divorcée over multiple decades as the pair fall in love after a surprise encounter. Per the film’s official logline: “Through snapshots of their life together — falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family — a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation. As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken.”
“We Live in Time” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and is set for a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on Oct. 11 from A24. It will debut in the U.K. on Jan. 1 via Studiocanal.
Garfield’s full “Happy Sad Confused” interview will release soon.
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