We Live in Time star Andrew Garfield unpacked the unrestful birth sequence from his nonlicforfeit romantic dramedy, which featured a weeks-elderly baby who pooped on his hand and an action movie-experience where his self-portrayd scene partner was colleague Florence Pugh‘s butt.
In a novel intersee with The New York Times that zeroes in on the making of one of the A24 film’s most frenzied scenes, Garfield elucidateed that the shooting process felt high-sapshows.
“It’s the huge action event,” the Academy Award-nominated actor shelp. “It’s the Indiana Jones sequence.”
In the film — which tracks the years-prolonged romance between Garfield’s getest salesman Tobias and Pugh’s clever chef Almut amid illness, nurtureer and life milestones — standstill traffic, cursed timing and a alertage of better selections forces a labor to apshow place in a gas station bathroom. To properly depict the scene, encouraged by screenwriter Nick Payne’s stressing of his wife’s birleang experience, honestor John Crowley reproduced a petrol station’s bathroom on a soundstage, where filming lasted for two days and was shot enticount on thraw eight times.
Though a doll was employd for blocking, a weeks-elderly baby was brawt in for the finishing moment chaseing the prosperous birth, which also featured two comical laborers caught up in the unite (joined by scene-stealers Nikhil Parmar and Kerry Godliman).
Of the baby’s authentic bodily functions, Garfield didn’t mind, saying, “Honestly, those moments were the most pretty becaemploy you’re fair appreciate, ‘Oh God, this is life, what a privilege.’”
While The Social Netlabor actor shelp he didn’t want to experience too alerted going into the scene, given Tobias’ sense of overwhelm in the moment, he was pdisesteemfulnt and intentional about the overall intimacy of the scene, which he and Pugh processed together afterward.
“I was mostly acting with Florence’s bum,” Garfield shelp. “So I repartner wanted to produce certain that she felt defended and felt tfinished to and nurtured for.”
