A24 has a film sure to drag in ladies audiences within the fall in We Dwell in Time, during which Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh play a pair the place the latter is battling stage 3 ovarian most cancers. Not solely did viewers members tear up tonight on the Princess of Wales Theatre right here on the Toronto Movie Pageant, however so did Oscar nominee Pugh.
“It was so superb, it was such a pleasure taking pictures this film,” mentioned Pugh, softly crying in the course of the post-premiere Q&A. “Watching it…is like life unfolding and we’re all doing it proper now.”
The characteristic is non-linear movie whereby we discover out about Pugh’s character Almut’s plight on the onset, however we leap via transferring moments of her life with Garfield’s Tobias, and their daughter — highs corresponding to how they met (she hits him along with her automotive) to her triumph as a aggressive chef.
“There was a give up that we needed to occur on this movie, a belief and letting go, and that was a theme within the movie. There have been moments tonight that moved me in a manner that I hadn’t been moved earlier than,” mentioned Garfield. “(It’s about) two individuals who simply need to reside.”
The actors spoke about rehearsing the Nick Payne-written script with BAFTA-winning filmmaker John Crowley.
Pugh praised Crowley for offering “two weeks of particular, stunning time.”
“We’d discuss via scenes, how we felt, John was good about stopping it when it grew to become too thrilling.”
The birthing scene proved to a sacred second for the actors on set.
“It was laborious to depart that area,” mentioned Garfield. The actor beforehand labored with Crowely on 2007’s A Boy.
“I wouldn’t have been in a position to do any of the stuff with out the security,” Pugh added about Crowley’s course.
“Neither of us could be right here with out John’s area that he offered for us.”
We Dwell in Time opens in theaters on October 11.
