Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh had an intimate moment while filming their romance movie We Live In Time that was so passionate they didn’t hear anyone tell them to stop the scene.
Speaking about the film at a recent 92NY conversation with MTV's Josh Horowitz, Garfield explained what happened when he, Pugh, a camera operator, and a boom operator got into a room to film a passionate scene. Once he and Pugh romantically intertwined, things got intense.
“The scene becomes passionate as we choreographed it,” admitted Garfield. “And we get into it as it were, and we go a little bit further than we were meant to because we didn’t hear ‘cut’ and it’s feeling safe.”
Garfield explained that after he and Pugh were going at it for a while, they realized that this take was going on for a long time. “At a certain point, both of us, I feel like, telepathically said to each other, this definitely feels like a longer take,” he joked.
Then, Garfield, said that he looked up — while explaining to the crowd, laughing at what he remembered. “In the corner is (the camera operator) and the boom operator,” detailed Garfield. “Stuart has the camera by his side and he’s turned into the wall.”
Apparently, the moment was so hot and heavy that someone yelled “cut” but Garfield and Pugh didn’t hear it — so the staff on hand planned to let them finish up on their own terms.
Garfield and Pugh’s We Live In Time is one one-part romance, one-part drama — following the heart-wrenching story of a couple over a decade as one of them deals with a cancer diagnosis. In an interview with Esquire, Garfield opened up about the level of intimacy that was required of their scenes.
“We had to do the most intimate things I think human beings have to do—you know, [Pugh] had to be on all fours, then on a toilet, naked,” he explained. “And we have to have my face where I have my face, my hands where I have my hands, and the sex scenes have to be incredibly intimate.”
We Live In Time is set to hit theaters for a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on Oct. 11. It comes to the UK on Jan. 1, 2025.