Andrew Garfield talks onscreen chemistry with Florence Pugh in 'We Live in Time'
"I understood very, very quickly ... that I was very, very safe with Florence."
Andrew Garfield is opening up about his onscreen chemistry with Florence Pugh on their new film "We Live in Time."
The "Amazing Spider-Man" actor praised the "Black Widow" actress for being "so un-judgmental" while filming the movie in an interview with "Good Morning America" that aired Thursday, Oct. 10.
"Safe is the word," Garfield said of working with Pugh. "Safe and trusting, and 'cultivating' is a great word too, because it takes work. It's not something that you can just leave to the gods. I think you have to really intentionally make sure these two have to be really safe with each other -- safe to fail, safe to look foolish and safe to have all of your nooks and crannies seen in all the ways, and it was cultivated."
He added, "I understood very, very quickly within rehearsals, and maybe the first few days of filming, that I was very, very safe with Florence."
The John Crowley-directed film tells the story of two strangers, Garfield's Tobias and Pugh's Almut, who are brought together by chance.
"Through snapshots of their life together -- falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family -- a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation," the official synopsis reads. "As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken."
Garfield said the movie -- billed as a "decade-spanning, deeply moving romance" -- seemed "to be very much in line with the things I was ruminating on and considering in my life."
Those things for him included "love, partnership, connection, loss, risk, meaning, courage, sorrow, grief [and] joy."
"You can only go as high as you go deep," Garfield said. "And the script just kind of felt like the inside of my heart and my brain."
"We Live in Time" arrives in theaters Friday, Oct. 11.
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