'We Live In Time' stars Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh talk us through their new movie together – and drop some top-tier music recommendations for your next playlist.
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00:00Whether we like it or not, the clock is ticking.
00:04What's the rush?
00:05Because I'm worried that there's a very distinct and real possibility that I'm about to fall
00:10in love with you.
00:11Hi, I'm Alex from NME, and today I'm with the internet's new favourite on-screen couple.
00:19It's Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.
00:20How are we?
00:21Us?
00:22Yeah, you.
00:23Say something.
00:24Say something.
00:25I'm sorry, I've got a mouthful of almonds.
00:26The horse meme has made you to the internet's new favourite movie couple.
00:29I kind of want to see the version where they're all horses in that horse land.
00:33You haven't seen that?
00:34No, I want to see that world.
00:35Oh, that world.
00:36I want to see this movie, but all of them as horses.
00:38Everyone's the horse meme.
00:39Well...
00:40It's a good start for you.
00:42It is, yeah.
00:43You're welcome.
00:44The real first question is, Florence, I watched an interview where you were talking about
00:49how you love bed scenes so much that you once fell asleep in one.
00:53Yeah.
00:54So can we ask Andrew, did you notice Florence nodding off during...
00:58You did sleep in one of our bed scenes.
01:01You were having a nap.
01:03Which one?
01:04In the early part of our relationship in your apartment.
01:06I did, yeah.
01:07I think it was the scene where I'm trying to sneak out of bed.
01:12I fell asleep.
01:13And you're just there asleep after our first night when we are...
01:17Some corporeal intimacy, shall we say.
01:20Did he sort of pep you up for every sex scene like that?
01:25Like that.
01:26In that voice?
01:28Corporeal intimacy.
01:30And I did the horse eyes.
01:32Yeah.
01:33And that's what she needed.
01:34And that's why I was like, wow, what a treat that I get to work with you.
01:39That's what she would think and say and mean it.
01:43I like it because the only place where I'm supposed to be is on set.
01:46And the only place where I'm supposed to be is on my mock.
01:49And so technically I can really just relax.
01:51And it's the same thing as when your parents are downstairs washing up and you're a kid
01:56and you get put to bed and the little hum of life happening around you.
02:01And you pretend to be asleep.
02:03It totally sends me off.
02:05Sometimes some people who have very, very busy lives,
02:08when they get on a plane they finally can relax.
02:12It's the noise around that really comforts me.
02:16Let's talk about the head shaving scene.
02:18Very emotional, very moving.
02:20Was that for real?
02:21Were you doing it for real, Andrew?
02:23Or was it kind of movie magic?
02:25It was totally for real.
02:26Was that your first time doing that?
02:28Me shaving a head?
02:29Yeah.
02:30Yeah, it was.
02:31I've shaved my own stuff, but like back and sides and face.
02:34What are you thinking?
02:36You look small.
02:37You should say a head, not your own stuff.
02:39Because there's more stuff than just a head.
02:41We don't need to know that.
02:43We've got to not do any more penis stuff.
02:47It's you that does it.
02:49Why are you looking at me like that?
02:51Because why wouldn't you say I've shaved my own head?
02:53We're not going there.
02:55So no, I'd never shaved another person's head before.
02:59And it was a great privilege to shave Florence's head.
03:02Did you tell Florence you'd never done it before?
03:04Yeah, I did.
03:05But she didn't care.
03:06I didn't care.
03:07She doesn't care about anything.
03:08He was more nervous than I was, which was natural.
03:10But also, I was like, well, the thing is, you can't really go wrong.
03:13Because you've got a guard.
03:14And the whole thing is that it's supposed to be coming off anyway.
03:16Yeah, but once I went to get my hair cut.
03:18And I was speaking to the hairdresser.
03:19I mean, I'm thinking about maybe going full sort of
03:21Cillian Murphy 28 years later.
03:23And he said, OK, that's fine.
03:24But come to me to do it.
03:25Because there is actually more to it than you think.
03:27Like shaping it to the skull and stuff like that.
03:29For sure.
03:30No, for sure.
03:31I didn't get as deep as that.
03:32I think after I did, I made the tennis ball.
03:35We actually didn't know.
03:36That didn't...
03:37You didn't afterwards with your hair and makeup people?
03:39They didn't do a little trimmy trim?
03:41Not a shape, no.
03:42Just of like maybe some long bits that had been there.
03:44Like one piece.
03:45But it was pretty much all the way over.
03:48You left some long bits.
03:49Come on.
03:50Oh, come on, man.
03:51Give me a break.
03:52It was my first time.
03:53It was just so cool that she was so game.
03:55And I felt very encouraged.
03:57The only thing I was a bit hesitant about was like,
04:01if I had a weird shaped head underneath.
04:03Yeah.
04:04So he did, halfway through, he did whisper in my ear.
04:06He was like, don't worry, you've got a nice head.
04:08I was discovering the head as it happened.
04:10Because I'd never seen the back of my head before.
04:12You were the first person.
04:13I was like, oh, you're going to be fine.
04:14You were the first person that saw my skull.
04:15What a privilege.
04:16That's going to be five chapters of my memoir.
04:18It should be.
04:19The pew skull shape discovery.
04:23Like an archaeological dig.
04:25Like some legendary cranium.
04:28Next question.
04:29Because I wish you would.
04:35What's happened to my underwear?
04:37Oh, I literally have no idea.
04:39So sorry, but do we know each other?
04:41Yeah, no.
04:44I ran you over.
04:46Sorry.
04:47Sorry.
04:49Your character, Andrew, works for Weetabix in the film.
04:51Yes.
04:52What jobs you guys did before you got your big break?
04:54Yeah.
04:55Starbucks.
04:56I was a barista.
04:58And I worked at Reese, the clothing store in retail.
05:01Did you get a good discount?
05:03I think I got some kind of discount.
05:05I don't remember.
05:06I was fired from both.
05:07And I was a cricket coach.
05:08Fired?
05:09Yeah, I was fired.
05:10How did you get fired from Reese?
05:11Both of them, I would sit down.
05:12When there was no one in the store.
05:14And when there was no one getting coffees.
05:16Sorry, there's no one in Starbucks.
05:17That never happens, ever.
05:18Mate, at the Wilsdon Green Sainsbury's.
05:20Sorry, the Kilburn Sainsbury's Starbucks in 2005.
05:24There was no one there, man.
05:26This was 20 years ago.
05:27Like, the coffee boom hadn't happened yet.
05:29People didn't know about Starbucks yet, really.
05:31You were a pioneer.
05:32I really, no.
05:33I didn't help the cause because I sat down a lot.
05:35Because there was no one there.
05:36So no, I got fired from both.
05:37Because I was like, I'm sitting down because there's no one in the store.
05:40Boss person.
05:41And they'd be like, you've got to keep standing up.
05:43You've got to.
05:44I don't care.
05:45Get a ruler and measure between the hangers on the racks at Reese.
05:49And make sure everything's delineated.
05:51And I'm like, I'm at KMS if you kill myself.
05:55If, not literally.
05:57It's a figure of speech.
05:59Not literally.
06:01But yeah, it was rough.
06:03So I got fired.
06:04Wow.
06:05I worked in my, I grew up in my dad's restaurant.
06:09So my first job was working in the deli.
06:11Actually, it wasn't.
06:12My first job was, he had sold one of them.
06:16And he needed to sell the contents of pieces of the restaurant inside.
06:20And so I was in charge of the sale.
06:22And so I was like, I want to say like 10 years old or 11 years old.
06:26And then lots of kind of grown up men would say,
06:29all these chairs are actually worth a lot less money than you're saying that they're worth.
06:33And I was like, I've been told that they're not though.
06:36That they are actually this price.
06:39We're trying to manipulate a child.
06:40I know.
06:41That's messed up.
06:42Right.
06:43Old men.
06:44So I did that.
06:45And then the deli.
06:46And then I worked as a waitress.
06:48Where were you at your dad's?
06:50You know?
06:51Yeah.
06:52I was a waiter at the Wigmore Hall.
06:53I would like, because the food they would serve us wasn't very good.
06:56So like, I would like wait around for like an old lady waiting for a classical music concert.
07:02Who I could tell wasn't going to finish all of her really good like chicken and potatoes or whatever.
07:07I'd be like, are you done yet?
07:08She's like, a couple of bites.
07:09And she'd be like, yeah, I guess.
07:10I'm like, great.
07:11I would take a plate and hide it in the kitchen.
07:14So I could like have leftovers for lunch.
07:16But I was like, good stuff.
07:17That poor old lady made it sound like you were sort of creeping on her.
07:20She felt pressured to be done quick.
07:21Yeah.
07:22For sure.
07:23Sweet little you.
07:24Yeah.
07:25One question we ask everyone we interview is, what's your go-to favourite album?
07:29I'm listening to Chapel Roan right now.
07:31Oh, amazing.
07:32I'm listening to her latest, which I'm back to front every morning.
07:35I just love it.
07:36You do know all the lyrics.
07:37It's very cute.
07:38What about you?
07:39Yeah, I've been listening to her recently as well.
07:40Rachel Chenerewe.
07:41Olivia Deen.
07:42All great answers.
07:43All enemy favourites as well.
07:44So well done.
07:45Thanks so much for speaking to me today.
07:47And enjoy the...
07:48Go on, have one.
07:49They're really delicious.
07:50I am guilty of looking ahead instead of right in front of me.
07:56And you?
08:02Is it?
08:04I'm fine to walk, honestly.
08:06This is ridiculous.
08:10Sorry.
08:11Okay.
08:12You okay?