A24 has a film that’s sure to tug in ladies audiences within the fall in We Live in Time, wherein Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh play a pair the place the latter is battling stage 3 ovarian most cancers. Not solely did viewers members tear up tonight on the Princess of Wales Theatre right here in Toronto, however so did Oscar nominee Pugh.
“It was so wonderful, it was such a pleasure taking pictures this film,” mentioned Pugh softly crying through the put up Q&A, “Watching it…is like life unfolding and we’re all doing it proper now.”
The characteristic is non-linear movie whereby we discover out about Pugh’s character Almut’s plight on the onset, however we bounce by way of shifting moments of her life with Garfield’s Tobias, and their daughter — highs corresponding to how they met (she hits him together with her automotive) to her triumph has a aggressive chef.
“There was a give up that we wished to occur on this movie, a belief and letting go, and that was a theme within the movie. There have been moments tonight that moved me in a manner that I hadn’t been moved earlier than,” mentioned Garfield, “(It’s about) two individuals who simply need to dwell.”
The actors spoke about rehearsing the Nick Payne written script with BAFTA successful filmmaker John Crowley.
Pugh praised Crowley for offering “two weeks of particular, lovely time.”
“We’d speak by way of scenes, how we felt, John was good about stopping it when it turned too thrilling.”
The birthing scene proved to a sacred second for the actors on set.
“It was onerous to go away that house,” mentioned Garfield. The actor beforehand labored with Crowely on 2007’s A Boy.
“I wouldn’t have been in a position to do any of the stuff with out the protection,” Pugh added about Crowley’s route
“Neither of us can be right here with out John’s house that he supplied for us.”
We Stay in Time opens on Oct. 11.
