“I never experienced this feeling" – Andrew Garfield pays emotional tribute to Florence Pugh

Florence Pugh was notably absent past nighttime from the UK premiere of her film, We Live successful Time, astatine the BFI London Film Festival. The histrion is successful New Zealand filming East of Eden, truthful her co-star Andrew Garfield made bash by carrying a cardboard cutout of her down the reddish carpet with him. He adjacent nuzzled his caput into insubstantial Pugh for the cameras.

Once wrong the Royal Festival Hall, Garfield wheeled retired his cardboard co-star again for the pre-film Q&A. Perhaps it was thing of a comfortableness blanket, arsenic Garfield admitted that the brace person go inseparable. 

“I’ve ne'er experienced this feeling successful immoderate movie I’ve done,” helium told the audience. “We screened our movie successful Toronto to an assemblage for the archetypal time, and Florence couldn’t travel to the afterparty for idiosyncratic reasons, and I felt similar fractional of my – this is truthful co-dependent – I felt similar fractional of my being was missing.” 

In the film, the brace play a mates implicit the people of a decade, from their unorthodox meet-cute (Garfield is tally implicit by Pugh) to a terrible crab diagnosis which leaves Pugh’s quality with months to live. “It felt similar it was 1 performance,” Garfield intoned sincerely, portion inactive clutching the cardboard cutout. “It was like, immoderate magic was happening created thing third, a spiritual third… I’ve ne'er experienced that with different performer, different actor.”  

He went connected to picture Pugh arsenic “brave, bold, fierce, uncompromising, wholly comfy with her ain spirit, her ain soul, her ain body, and devoted to this work.” At 1 constituent helium made the assemblage laughter by giving an affectionate pat to the Pugh simulacrum. “I cognize it’s hard to instrumentality immoderate of this earnestly but I bash mean it sincerely,” helium said. 

In a station connected Instagram, Pugh described Garfield’s reddish carpet stunt arsenic “genius”. “It genuinely hurts not being determination to observe but I’m raising a solid from precise acold away,” she wrote.

Despite their on-screen chemistry, the brace look to beryllium conscionable friends successful existent life. Pugh told Vogue precocious that she’s successful a relationship. She chose not to uncover their identity, but was photographed successful September leaving a premiere with Peaky Blinders histrion Finn Cole. Earlier this twelvemonth Garfield was linked to Dr Kate Tomas, a “professional witch” and spiritual mentor. Tomas revealed connected Instagram this week that they divided up “months ago”.