The first time that We Live in Time director John Crowley saw Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield together on screen was at the 2023 Oscars, where they presented the award for Best Original Screenplay. Even from that short segment, he knew the pair had something special together – a feeling that only grew when rehearsals for their new film started. "I began to spot there were moments where little flickers of life began to spark into being, moments that they were playing together off each other, like two extraordinary tennis players knocking the ball around," he tells GamesRadar+.
"Then suddenly one of them would hit the ball really hard, and the other one would hit it back." It transfers to the screen in We Live in Time where Garfield and Pugh are electric as couple Tobias and Almut. The film charts their relationship from their first meet-cute, where Almut runs Tobias over, through the huge highs and deep lows of their partnership.
It's optimistic and heartbreaking in equal measure, and the duo are believable in every iteration. Time flies It's no mean feat either, as the film charts three distinct time periods in their lives and zips back and forth between them. These weren't filmed chronologically either, leaving Pugh and Garfield to navigate inhabiting their younger and older selves.
Even with that tricky task, Pugh was undaunted. "I will also say that each scene had such intention and such precision in where those people were at that point in their life," she tells us. ".
