Andrew Garfield Wants to Crack Open Your Heart

In the new movie “We Live in Time,” the actor Andrew Garfield plays a newly divorced man named Tobias who falls in love with a chef named Almut, played by Florence Pugh. Their story feels epic and expansive, but still intimate. It focuses on the small, everyday moments that make up a love story: washing dishes together after a dinner party, sharing biscuits, smelling fruit at a farmers’ market. These are the moments that sustain them through Almut’s excruciatingly difficult medical crisis.
In this episode, Garfield reads the Modern Love essay “Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss,” by Chris Huntington. (www.nytimes.co...) His reading was unlike any other in the history of this show. Mr. Garfield was so moved by Mr. Huntington’s essay that he spoke in a surprisingly raw way with the host Anna Martin about the need for art to crack us all open, including himself.
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[@astroace]

Mr. Garfield speaks so beautifully here. I think a lot about the way art affects our relationships and his art has always hit very close to home for me. Thank you both for this conversation, really got me thinking.

[@theperkisystem12]

So pure. Mr Garfield brings such sincerity, such humanity, that i feel every emotion in the spectrum.

[@ahmedrana25]

will there be a video version please?

[@ValerieE.Blades]

What a blessing to be able to listen to such beautiful thoughts, to witness Andrew’s raw vulnerability, and for him to crack our hearts open. He is so full of light, so in touch with life’s shadows. What a mind. Just yesterday I saw “About Time”, yet this interview made me even more emotional than the film. Thank you Andrew, I love and admire your soul 🤍
“I'm in love with how your soul's a mix of chaos and art
And how you never try to keep them apart”

[@ValerieE.Blades]

To Andrew: “I'm in love with how your soul's a mix of chaos and art
And how you never try to keep them apart”

[@dianasandoval8758]

Thank you very much for this episode

[@mimimislead]

I love when he speaks about art.

[@peachesandpoets]

This was great

[@wendymclean4439]

Trying to subscribe! Not working. Love you all