Andrew Garfield Recalls ‘We Live In Time’ Sex Scene With Florence Pugh That Forced Camera Operator To Turn Away: “We Didn’t Hear Cut”
deadline.comAndrew Garfield‘s onscreen chemistry with Florence Pugh might have been a little too palpable. As the Golden Globe winner discussed their new movie We Live in Time on Friday at 92NY, he recalled shooting a “very intimate, passionate sex scene” with Pugh on a closed set, which made cinematographer Stuart Bentley turn away. “The scene becomes passionate, as we choreographed it,” he said in a clip from the appearance. “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.
And we’re just kinda like, ‘Ok, we’ll just go into the next thing, we’ll let this progress, and we’ll just carry on.’ Garfield continued, “And at a certain point, both of us, we’re both kind of telepathically saying to each other, ‘This definitely feels like a longer take.’ … I look up, and in the corner is Stuart and our boom operator.
Stuart has the camera by his side and he’s turned into the wall.” During the movie’s world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival last month, Pugh praised director John Crawley for creating a safe space to delve into Nick Payne‘s emotional screenplay. “I wouldn’t have been able to do any of the stuff without the safety.
Neither of us would be here without John’s space that he provided for us,” she said. In We Live in Time, which is scheduled for an Oct.
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