Andrew Garfield Was Terrified to Shave Florence Pugh's Head for We Live in Time

I probably ought to get going. Why? Who says? I don't know. You're right. I don't know why I said that. I mean, unless you have... to do, then... I have nothing. But if you, I mean, have... to do, then, you know... I have nothing. We're back with Andrew Garfield. That was a clip. Obviously, you know, you've dabbled in the Marvel Universe, a lot of CGI. There was some practical stuff on this film. You have to shave Florence's head at one point. There's no special effects. You get one shot at this. Were you nervous at the pre-haircut scene? I was, because that's a really valuable noggin. That's like a... I don't know how much that noggin is insured for, but it's definitely... You take a piece of that noggin on, they got to shut down production. Oh, no. Like, yeah. I mean, yeah. So, it's beloved. It's like a world-renowned head. And I think the scariest thing for me was because I was going to... It was going to be revealed to me first whether she had the melon for a shaved head. Oh, right. You know what I mean? Because I'm up close and personal, and I'm shaving, and I'm like, oh, my God, I hope I... Because I was telling her, I was like, I think I have a really good feeling about the shape of your head. I think it's going to really work. Right. You know, because it doesn't work on everybody, and that's fine. Yeah, yeah. It's not your fault. We have the heads we're born with. We're not doing cranial discrimination. It is what it is. But, like, I'm there in the back, and I'm like, okay, so far, so good. So, I was mostly concerned. Right. And, of course, as you say, we're doing it for real. And she was so courageous in saying yes to doing that. And we're filming it from three different angles. So, as you say, one take. So, there's no going back. You can't start gluing it back on. Like Paddington with the marmalade in Paddington 2. Yeah. Because it did not, if you remember, did not work out for Paddington. No, it didn't. And I was so, so happy to see. And I was able to whisper to her during the take. I was like, don't worry, the head's perfect. And it was beautiful. And we had the lovely little girl, Gracie, who plays our daughter in the film, taking the hair and putting it in her little lunchbox to keep for, like, safekeeping. It was just a gorgeous, very profound moment. And it was one of those, another magical moment, because it was raining all day long, and we had to figure out what else to do because it's an outdoor scene. And there was this one period of 45 minutes where it stopped raining, the sun came out, a little bit of magic happened, and we were like, okay, get it, let's get it all set up. And we did it, and we got it. It started raining again immediately. So, it was like, it was a little bit of cinema gods going, okay, get that beautiful little thing. Beautiful film. It is a bit of a tearjerker. Not to give too much away. Do you, as you get older, do you find you're more susceptible to having a tearjerker when you go to see a film? That is none of your business. You know, they used to have tons of places in Times Square. Where you can get your tearjerkers. Yeah, a lot of tearjerkers. A lot of tearjerkers out there. So, I, for the record, I do love a tearjerk. I, yeah. And I'm not, I don't know why. I made a gesture. I feel like I've ruined it by the way I phrased this. I think it was more my ear. I take responsibility, at least 50% responsibility. We both own it. Yeah, yeah. I actually think it's a sign of great strength, particularly in a man, if the more that one can cry in this day and age, because I think there's so much to cry about. A hundred percent. And I actually think like it's the only place where we can actually access our hearts and the vitality of life and the joy of life if we allow ourselves to feel all the stuff that we're told societally not to feel and not to show. That's why I think so many men cry secretly at movies on planes. Yeah, just because they, they got to get it out. Like the amount of men that watch Top Gun Maverick on a plane. Yeah, and they were like, I've never cried so much in my damn life. God bless Tom Cruise. God bless America. And it's like, yeah, that's great. That's a great first step. Yeah, get through it. Let's. But also your own life. You can cry about your own stuff too. Oh my God, it's vital. I have a group of friends back home and we're getting much better at it as we get older. Yeah, because it's, you know, life is tricky and the world is tricky. And I think actually the world is set up for our hearts to be more calcified, more separated, more divided. And I think a film like this and I don't know, I intend to keep on cracking open my heart so that I can be as expanded. And I think it's a sign of strength in a man particularly. It's interesting because I, you know, I'll take my kids to see a Disney movie and the emotional part goes right over their head. Yeah, but I'm just fully at the end like, you did it Moana. The weird thing is my oldest, oh, I got to teach him because my oldest is eight. He's like, you're embarrassing me. I'm like, this is good. Yeah, I promise you it's good. I promise you this is good. He's like, now you're yelling. What a joy to see you as always. Thanks so much for being here. We love having you in the studio. And your parents.