Andrew Garfield describes sex scene with Florence Pugh that was so intense they didn't hear 'cut' from director

Andrew Garfield has revealed why the camera operator ended up 'turned into the wall' while he was filming a sex scene with Florence Pugh.

Garfield stars alongside Pugh in A24 rom-com We Live in Time, written by Nick Payne and directed by John Crowley.

The pair play the roles of Tobias and Almut, with the film yo-yoing across the timeline of their romance and - as most rom-coms tend to do - there are some more intimate scenes sprinkled across the movie, including one where the actors accidentally got a bit carried away during filming.

On Friday (October 4), Garfield sat down with Josh Horowitz - host of the Happy Sad Confused podcast - at a 92NY Collective event in New York and opened up about shooting the scene with Pugh and why they ended up not quite hearing when the director called 'cut'.

The actor explained to Horowitz and the audience the scene was a 'closed set' meaning it was only him, Pugh, the camera operator - also the director of photography - named Stewart and a boom operator in the room together.

And it was during the very first take of the 'very intimate, passionate sex scene' which caused 'very very polite, sweet and gentle' Stewart alongside the 'very sweet and gentle' boom operator to turn away from looking at the actors.

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in We Live in Time (A24)

Garfield explained: "So we're in this old country house that we live in, and the director's in another room next door and so the scene becomes passionate, as we choreographed it.

"And we get into it, as it were, and we go a little bit further than we were meant to - just because we never heard 'cut' and it's feeling safe and we're like 'OK, we’ll go to the next thing and the next thing, we’ll let this progress and we'll just carry on'."

However, at a certain point, the pair almost 'telepathically' realized the scene 'definitely' felt 'like a longer take' than they were expecting and so Garfield looked up.

Garfield continued: "And in the corner is Stewart and our boom operator. Stewart has the camera by his side and he’s turned into the wall."

We Live in Time premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last month and is set to hit screens in the US from October 11 and in the UK from January 1.

Oh, and keep your eyes peeled for UNILAD's review soon.