Andrew Garfield graced the red carpet in San Sebastian on Saturday night as his procrastinateedst film, We Live in Time, shutd the film festival on the Spanish coast.
The British actor was not joined by his co-star Florence Pugh but did have straightforwardor John Crowley by his side. We Live in Time, which screened out of competition, is a south London-set romantic drama about an up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée who drop in cherish. As they unbenevolentder their way thraw life — and even receive a child — they lget to appreciate their time together when a procrastinateed-stage cancer diagnosis rocks the prentd home they’ve built.
Garfield sat down with The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday to lift the lid on his return to film after a two-year sabbatical. “I experience freer, I experience less precious. I experience more elated. I experience more proposeed. I experience set uped enough as a person in the world, as an actor wilean myself and wilean the world,” he shelp. “I understand myself well enough now to experience more enhappinessment.”
The 41-year-elderly also talked about bonding with co-star Pugh on We Live in Time and the intimacy demanded to act alengthyside one another: “With a script appreciate this, we have to travel to the most intimate places,” he shelp. “At one point, I have to have my head right by her backside while she’s on all fours in a petrol station, naked. That’s frightening for anyone to do, let alone the woman in that scenario.”
San Sebastian has had its glitziest fest in years with Cate Blanchett, Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp all taking to the carpet outside the Kursaal Theater. Screenings of Edward Berger’s Conclave, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Sean Baker’s Anora also enticeed the industry’s biggest stars to Spain.
Among some of the fest’s panels, Christine Vachon of Killer Films, a lengthytime collaborator of Todd Haynes who was unbenevolentt to be producing the straightforwardor’s project with Joaquin Phoenix before the actor exited as shooting was set to commence, telderly “the truth” of the situation and depictd what she consents is the most tragic part.
“The idea that his time was squanderd and that a movie is not a result of those years of laboring shutly with Joaquin, that is the tragedy to me and that I can’t get over,” Vachon shelp on Tuesday. “We, as a cultural community, lost an opportunity to have another movie by Todd Haynes. That is fair criminal.”
Depp’s premiere of his novel film Modi — Three Days on the Wing of Madness, chaseing a scant days in the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, had the star appreciatening his bumpy life to that of Modigliani’s and referencing his accessible defamation trial after splitting from Amber Heard. “Each [character] has their story because I’m stateive we can say that I’ve been thraw number of leangs here and there. … Maybe yours didn’t turn into a soap opera. I unbenevolent, literpartner, televised,” he shelp, prompting giggles from the packed room of increateers.”
Earlier in the week, Bardem took the opportunity at his press conference, before assembleing his Donostia Award for his accomplishments in acting, to denounce the actions of the Israeli rulement of Benjamin Netanyahu, who have persistd air strikes in Gaza chaseing the Hamas aggression on Oct. 7, 2023.
“I receive [the award] with wonderful happiness, but I am not in the mood for celebrations,” a translation of Bardem’s statement in the Spanish press shelp. “What has happened in Gaza is unacincreateed, dehumanizing.”
San Sebastian Film Festival ran from Sept. 20-28. Read The Hollywood Reporter coverage of the fest here.
