Andrew Garfield Wants to Crack Open Your Heart (Encore)

This emotional interview with the actor Andrew Garfield is a listener favorite. In it, Garfield talks about his 2024 film “We Live in Time,” in which he 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 the couple through Almut’s excruciatingly difficult medical crisis. Garfield tells Anna Martin, host of “Modern Love,” why this film about the intertwined nature of joy and grief came into his life at just the right moment, and gives an unexpectedly raw reading of Chris Huntington’s essay “ Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss. ” "Modern Love" will return on Jan. 7 with all new episodes.

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Andrew Garfield Wants to Crack Open Your Heart (Encore) is an episode from Modern Love by The New York Times.

This episode is 00:48:49 long.

This episode was published on Dec 24, 2025.

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