Andrew Garfield recently mentioned that he and Florence Pugh got slightly carried away while filming a passionate sex scene for their new romantic comedy, We Live in Time.
In a candid chat on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz on October 4, Garfield, 41, said how the steamy moment with Pugh, 28, turned into something more than what was scripted.
The pair, both playing a married couple, got so caught up in the heat of the scene that they completely missed the director’s cue to stop — and kept going long after the camera had stopped rolling.
Recalling the moment, Garfield recounted the initial awkwardness as the pair — who play a married couple in We Live in Time — got intimate for the film, footage of the onstage interview in New York City shows.
Mimicking his usual approach to such moments, Garfield asked, “How’s this? May I kiss you now? You don’t have to, even though we are pretending to be married.” The audience burst into laughter, while Garfield added that Pugh, ever the professional, brushed it off with her usual confidence, informs People.
“She would just laugh at me because she’s very confident in her body and her sexuality and her being. Florence is Florence,” Garfield said.
According to People, when it came time to shoot the “very intimate, passionate sex scene” — on a closed set with just the essentials — things quickly went beyond what anyone had anticipated.
“The scene becomes passionate as we choreographed it and we get into it, as it were,” Garfield explained. “And we go a little bit further than we were meant to because we didn’t hear ‘cut,’ and it felt safe. So, we thought, ‘Let’s just keep going, see where this takes us,” he added.
The two actors got so wrapped up in the moment that by the time they finally realised what was happening, the camera was no longer on them.
“At some point, we kind of looked at each other and had that silent moment of, ‘This feels a bit long, doesn’t it?’ ” Garfield shared with a grin.
To demonstrate the moment of realisation, Garfield stood up and re-enacted how he noticed that the camera operator and boom guy had casually turned away, with the camera no longer pointing at the action, reports People.
