Andrew Garfield Says His Sex Scene with Florence Pugh Went ‘A Little Bit Further Than We Were Meant To’

Neither star heard “cut” as they filmed the “very intimate, passionate sex scene” for ‘We Live in Time,’ Garfield revealed

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh got a bit carried away while filming a sex scene for their upcoming romantic comedy, We Live in Time.

While chatting with Happy Sad Confused podcast host Josh Horowitz on Oct. 4, the 41-year-old actor revealed that as he and Pugh, 28, filmed a steamy scene they got so caught up acting that they didn’t hear “cut” — and they kept going even after the camera 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.

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Imitating his demeanor during intimate scenes, Garfield said, “How’s this? May I kiss you now? You don’t have to, even though we’re pretending to be married.” After inspiring laughter from the audience, he added that, ever-the-professional, Pugh simply laughed off any weirdness.

“She would just laugh at me because she’s very confident in her body and her sexuality and her being,” the Amazing Spider-Man actor said. “Florence is Florence.”

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So when it came time to do the first take of a “very intimate, passionate sex scene” — filmed on a closed set with just the leads, a camera operator and boom operator — the actors got a bit carried away, Garfield recalled.

“The scene becomes passionate — as we choreographed it — and we get into it, as it were,” the actor recalled. “And we go a little bit further than we were meant to just because we don't hear 'cut' and it's feeling safe, and we’re kind of like, ‘Okay let’s go to the next thing and the next thing and we’ll let this progress.’ ”

The stars let things progress so long, he said, that by the time they looked up from each other, the camera was no longer on them.

At a certain point, he recalled, he and Pugh were “both kind of telepathically saying to each other, ‘This definitely feels like a longer take.’ ”

“I think I look up,” Garfield continued, getting up out of his seat to demonstrate. “I look up, and in the corner is [the cameraman] and our boom operator. [He] has the camera by his side, and is turned into the wall.”

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In We Live in Time, Garfield and Pugh portray couple Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Pugh) — who have a unique meet-cute after Almut accidentally hits Tobias with her car — as their romance blossoms and relationship changes over the years.

The couple is “brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives," per an official synopsis for the movie. "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, in filmmaker John Crowley's decade-spanning, deeply moving romance."

We Live in Time is in limited theaters starting Friday, Oct. 11.

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