Andrew Garfield Brought a 'Personal Loss' Experience to His EmotionalWe Live in TimePerformance

Mar. 15, 2025

Andrew Garfield on Sept. 6, 2024.Photo:Robin Marchant/Getty

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Andrew Garfieldis opening up about the personal experiences he brought to his new drama withFlorence Pugh.

While Garfield, 41, and Pugh, 28, spoke after the 2024Toronto International Film Festivalworld premiere ofWe Live in Timeon Friday, Sept. 6, Garfield referenced the film’s director John Crowley while speaking to “a collecting of experience that one goes through in one’s life — personal experience, personal loss, personal love.”

“I think that we were lucky enough to be able to bring all of those private personal things to this in ways that were healing for us, and hopefully healing for an audience as well,” he said.

We Live In Time poster.A24

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“You kind of don’t want to know what the next take is gonna be. And that can only happen if you have a scene partner who you can just pay attention to and tune into and listen to and know that you will end up in the most honest, authentic place with, and that’s Florence. And that’s rare.”

We Live in Timemarks Garfield’s first feature film role since 2021, when he memorably reprised hisSpider-Manrole inNo Way Homeand portrayed the late composer Jonathan Larson intick, tick… BOOM!In the new romantic drama, he plays Tobias, while Pugh portrays Almut.

We Live in Timeis in theaters Oct. 11.

source: people.com