For andres garfieldthe script of We live in time It couldn't have come at a more perfect time in his life.
“When I read [the script]He was in deep contemplation of the meaning of life. As always, but perhaps more pronounced at that moment,” Garfield, 41, said at a San Sebastian Film Festival. press conference on Saturday, September 28. “I was thinking about life, death, love, meaning, time. … being at the age of 39 and 40, a kind of midlife crisis, looking forward, looking back, looking exactly where I am and thinking: 'What now?'”
“This script came along, and it was like I wrote it from that place,” he continued. Garfield recalled having to ask himself, 'How did I write this so well? I'm not a writer.'”
Garfield noted that if he and the playwright Nick Payne We had similar thoughts: “These things, there has to be something, something universal in this story.”
We live in time follows the love story of the couple Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Florence Pugh) who bond over a chance encounter and learn to cherish the moments while navigating parenthood and a medical diagnosis.
Garfield explained Saturday that he knew he was ready for the movie after reading a scene involving an ambulance, traffic and a gas station bathroom. “It looked like the central action sequence, the Indiana Jones action sequence of this movie,” he said.
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh
MovieStillsDBDuring the press conference, Garfield was asked a question that framed him and Pugh's characters as heroes. Garfield, for his part, noted that “he fights[s] with that word right now in our culture.”
“Anyone in my life who has gone through something similar to what Tobias and Almut went through would reject the idea of being heroic,” he explained. “People in my family and close friends who have gone through things of the most horrible nature, the kind of things where you have to wonder if the universe has any justice, those moments where you think, 'What is the truth?' situation here and how? Am I supposed to continue? Those who find a way to move forward will outright reject the idea of being heroic. It is a necessity.”
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He continued: “What I love about these two people is that they represent this strange, mysterious, eternal, inexplicable desire to live in the face of the most horrible pain and loss. And how we, as human beings, find that strength, that desire, that little flame of longing to live again and again. There are probably people in this room going through something not unlike what these characters are going through, facing death and choosing to live anyway. “That seems extraordinary to me.”
When Garfield first read the script, he explained that he did not think of the film as a romantic drama. “I thought, 'This is a great story about death,'” he explained. “It's really gritty and funny, and it tries to get at some of the mystery of what it means to fall in love, get married and have a child with someone.”
We live in time hits US theaters on October 11.