Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh’s chemistry is undeniable.
So much so that the pair went above and beyond while filming a sex scene in their new movie “We Live in Time.”
Garfield, 41, shared the story during a “Happy Sad Confused” podcast taping at the 92nd St Y in New York on October 4.
“We do the first take of this very intimate, passionate sex scene,” Garfield told host Josh Horowitz. “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 continued, “The scene becomes passionate as 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 and we’ll just carry on.’”
But Garfield said that both he and Pugh, 28, eventually were “telepathically saying to each other, ‘This definitely feels like a long take.’”
“I look up, and in the corner is Stewart and our boom operator,” the actor recalled. “Stewart has the camera by his side and he’s turned into the wall.”
Despite the sexual scene, Garfield and Pugh are both in relationships with other people. Garfield is dating spiritual reader and advisor Kate Thomas. He previously dated his “The Amazing Spider-Man” co-star Emma Stone from 2011 to 2015.
Pugh, meanwhile, is rumored to be dating “Peaky Blinders” star Finn Cole. She split from her ex Zach Braff in 2022 after three years of dating.
“We Live in Time” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last month. The film is directed by John Crowley and explores the decade-long romance between Garfield and Pugh’s characters.
Garfield plays Tobias, a Weetabix representative who is getting divorced at the start of the film, while Pugh plays Almut, a former figure skater turned chef who ends up being diagnosed with cancer.
During a press conference for the film at the San Sebastian Film Festival last month, Garfield said he “was in deep contemplation of the meaning of life” when he read the script for the emotional film.
“I was thinking about life, death, love, meaning, time… standing at the age of 39 and 40, kind of a mid-life crisis, looking forward, looking backward, looking exactly where I am, and thinking, ‘What now?’” he shared, per Variety, adding, “This script arrived, and it was as if I had written it from that place.”
Pugh committed to her role in the film by shaving her head.
She told Vanity Fair last month that she rejected Crowley’s offer to wear a wig or other hairpieces to portray her cancer-stricken character.
“I just stopped him mid-sentence and I was like, ‘John, no one can play a character like this in a movie like this and not do the thing that is needed to be done,’ ” the Oscar nominee said. “And if you don’t want to do it, I believe that you shouldn’t be doing a story like this.”
