Andrew Garfield Charms San Sebastian as ‘We Live in Time’ Closes Fest

Andrew Garfield graced the crimson carpet in San Sebastian on Saturday night time as his newest movie, We Stay in Time, closed the movie pageant on the Spanish coast.

The British actor was not joined by his co-star Florence Pugh however did have director John Crowley by his aspect. We Stay in Time, which screened out of competitors, is a south London-set romantic drama about an up-and-coming chef and a current divorcée who fall in love. As they meander their method via life — and even welcome a baby — they be taught to cherish their time collectively when a late-stage most cancers prognosis rocks the blissful house they’ve constructed.

Garfield sat down with The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday to elevate the lid on his return to movie after a two-year sabbatical. “I really feel looser, I really feel much less valuable. I really feel extra joyful. I really feel extra conscious. I really feel established sufficient as an individual on this planet, as an actor inside myself and inside the world,” he stated. “I do know myself effectively sufficient now to really feel extra enjoyment.”

The 41-year-old additionally talked about bonding with co-star Pugh on We Stay in Time and the intimacy wanted to behave alongside each other: “With a script like this, we’ve to journey to probably the most intimate locations,” he stated. “At one level, I’ve to have my head proper by her bottom whereas she’s on all fours in a petroleum station, bare. That’s scary for anybody to do, not to mention the girl in that situation.”

San Sebastian has had its glitziest fest in years with Cate Blanchett, Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp all taking to the carpet exterior the Kursaal Theater. Screenings of Edward Berger’s Conclave, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Sean Baker’s Anora additionally attracted the business’s largest stars to Spain.

Amongst a few of the fest’s panels, Christine Vachon of Killer Movies, a longtime collaborator of Todd Haynes who was meant to be producing the director’s challenge with Joaquin Phoenix earlier than the actor exited as capturing was set to start out, instructed “the reality” of the state of affairs and described what she believes is probably the most tragic half.

“The concept his time was wasted and {that a} film shouldn’t be a results of these years of working intently with Joaquin, that’s the tragedy to me and that I can’t recover from,” Vachon stated on Tuesday. “We, as a cultural group, misplaced an alternative to have one other film by Todd Haynes. That’s simply prison.”

Depp’s premiere of his new movie Modi — Three Days on the Wing of Insanity, following a couple of days within the lifetime of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, had the star likening his bumpy life to that of Modigliani’s and referencing his public defamation trial after splitting from Amber Heard. “Every [character] has their story as a result of I’m positive we are able to say that I’ve been via variety of issues right here and there. … Perhaps yours didn’t flip right into a cleaning soap opera. I imply, actually, televised,” he stated, prompting laughs from the packed room of reporters.”

Earlier within the week, Bardem took the chance at his press convention, earlier than accumulating his Donostia Award for his achievements in appearing, to denounce the actions of the Israeli authorities of Benjamin Netanyahu, who’ve continued air strikes in Gaza following the Hamas assault on Oct. 7, 2023.

“I welcome [the award] with nice pleasure, however I’m not within the temper for celebrations,” a translation of Bardem’s assertion within the Spanish press stated. “What has occurred in Gaza is unacceptable, dehumanizing.”

San Sebastian Movie Pageant ran from Sept. 20-28. Learn The Hollywood Reporter protection of the fest right here.