Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh Bring Steamy Sex, Sobs and Wild Birthing Scene to TIFF With ‘We Live in Time’
variety.comTatiana Siegel Like a football player emerging from the huddle, Florence Pugh squatted and grunted as she reenacted a dramatic scene from “We Live in Time” after the film made its splashy debut on Day 2 of the Toronto International Film Festival.
During a post-screening Q&A with co-star Andrew Garfield and director John Crowley, Pugh described the making of a wild scene from the tear-jerker cancer drama in which she gives birth in a dingy gas station bathroom while Garfield and two strangers looked on. “It was amazing.
I mean, you saw like seven minutes of it. We did 15-minute births like eight times. It was insane,” she told the sniffling audience. “The only problem was, I didn’t have a baby that came out, so I was just so exhausted and sweaty and tired, and I got no endorphins or anything. … I’ve never had a child, which is pretty key to knowing how to have a baby.
But I do know a lot of amazing women that have had loads of babies, and I’ve heard all of their stories.” Garfield added: “It’s weird that we made that toilet a holy site.” The A24 film follows Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield), a blossoming couple who must navigate her possibly fatal cancer diagnosis and an uncertain prognosis.
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