The two stars and director John Crowley preview their tearjerking new drama, “We Live in Time.”
For directorJohn Crowley, the scattered timeline enables him to convey some deeper truths about relationships and connection.
“We don’t live our lives in a particularly linear way.
Andrew Garfield as Tobias and Florence Pugh as Almut in ‘We Live in Time’.Peter Mountain/StudioCanal
It’s about two people trying to create a life for themselves.
What happens to the meaning of that when the time gets curtailed?”
“It’s the main event of what is going on.
Florence Pugh as Almut in ‘We Live in Time’.Peter Mountain/StudioCanal
It gave me a bit more attention to detail in every single moment.”
“The different outcomes are in each scene,” he explains.
“They’re in the possibility of the choice made within each scene.
Andrew Garfield as Tobias in ‘We Live in Time’.Peter Mountain/StudioCanal
you could see the different outcomes in the eyes of these two characters.
Crowley adds, “What he’s getting at is that life is contingent.
For Garfield, the narrative structure also underscores the film’s sense of fate.
Tobias (Andrew Garfield) and Almut (Florence Pugh) in ‘We Live in Time’.Peter Mountain/StudioCanal
“It was fun dealing with the cause and effect of each event,” he reflects.
Crowley and his actors wanted instead to give a sense of a march toward the inevitable.
Still, Garfield feels that all those possibilities play out in the palpable choices that are left unsaid.
It was more intangible than that.
“There was something very magical that happened straight away,” Pugh gushes.
Garfield adds that he looks for the same qualities in an acting partner as he does in real-life connections.
They see themselves in each other.”
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“It was a gift,” he says of the experience of making the movie.
“Grief is a gift.
There’s no way of experiencing connection to life until we understand and experience a connection to death.
All of the unexpressed love is what grief manifests.”
Garfield hopes his own experiences that he channels into Tobias will provide comfort to others.
“What’s amazing is that it’s universal,” he concludes.
That’s reassuring to know that this unique pain that I feel is not that unique.
We Live in Timehits theaters on Oct. 11.
