Andrew Garfield is, once again, returning to the big screens. Though this time, it’s in a romantic comedy. Starring alongside the Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh’s Almut, he will be seen playing Tobias in his upcoming film titled ‘We Live in Time’. However, fans are not ready yet to see the actor once again donning such a role of a hopeless romantic.
The reason behind fans’ hesitation in accepting this new (but not so new) role of Garfield is pretty simple: They just haven’t gotten over the fact that his version of Peter Parker previously lost his Gwen Stacy in a gut-wrenching death scene in TASM 2 that had everyone bawling their eyes out. This is why they just can’t bear to see him lose his love again in his upcoming movie.
Andrew Garfield is Once Again Playing a Heartbroken Lover
In his next upcoming project, We Live in Time, Garfield will be seen playing Tobias, a recently turned divorcée, who somehow falls in love with Florence Pugh‘s Almut, a chef in the making, after an unexpectedly painful encounter for Tobias. However, things take a turn downhill when, after years of being together, Almut gets diagnosed with cancer.
Even the mere official logline of this piece reads:
Almut and Tobias are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together — falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family — a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation.
Of course, this difficult truth challenges the pair’s love for each other in a heart-wrenching turn of events for both. As per what the official logline continues to read:
As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley’s decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
All of this being said, it becomes inevitable that, in this movie too, Andrew Garfield could end up being a love-sick romantic who eventually lands in the position where he heart-wrenchingly mourns the love of his life after her death. And, unsurprisingly enough, fans are anything but happy with this after what happened in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
As viewers must remember, by the end of TASM 2, Emma Stone‘s Gwen Stacy faces a gut-wrenching turn of events as she falls from the top of the clock tower down to the bottom. Even though Garfield’s Peter Parker shoots a web to catch her which does catch her, her head still hits the floor of the tower, leading to her instant death.
This is why fans are once again fearing to see the same soul-crushing turn of events prevail for their favorite actor.
Fans Aren’t Ready to See Andrew Garfield Lose His Lover Again
While seeing him utterly heartbroken as Peter Parker after Gwen Stacy’s death in 2014’s TASM 2 was one thing, Garfield once again reminded fans of those devastating turns of events in 2022’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, leaving viewers once again as a sobbing mess.
Moreover, since the stakes are high in this movie as well, fans are convinced he would once again leave them all shattered with his beyond-impeccable performance as a heartbroken lover. This is why they just aren’t ready to see him don the role of Tobias just yet.
Taking to X, here’s what they’re saying on the matter:
why do they always give him a script like that?
— Ksana (@bigarms4me) July 10, 2024
Gwen in spiderman was the saddest to watch😭😭
— Mariana (@MariannnaXO) July 10, 2024
here we go again 😩
— Japanese Juno 🍒 (@Junokawai) July 10, 2024
why do they always give him a script like that?
— Brook Summers🦋 %65 Discount!🩷 (@brooksummers144) July 11, 2024
BRB, I'm going to sign a petition to stop killing Andrew Garfield's blonde love interest in every movie.
— Vikas (@thunderxstorm07) July 10, 2024
I almost cried during this trailer 😅. He’s such a damn good actor it only took the 2 minutes to hit me in the feels.
— ðÿļ•ň 🃏 (@Joker_4286) July 10, 2024
andrew garfield’s about to watch another blonde girl with bangs die 😭😭
— 4KT WHO YOU HATE (@royal_bobby24) July 10, 2024
It becomes unarguably understandable why fans are reacting this way to the mere trailer of this particular upcoming film from Garfield. For whatever it’s worth, if all of these speculations about his lover dying in the end eventually do turn out to be true, then it probably won’t take long before Andrew Garfield starts going around by the nickname, ‘The King of Tears.’
We Live in Time will world premiere this September at the Toronto International Film Festival before going ahead for a limited theatrical release on the 11th of October, 2024.
