Port Magazine

Port Magazine

Issue : #35

Port Magazine is a biannual style magazine with a focus on intelligent and beautiful content for the modern reader.

Daisy Edgar-Jones: I’ve already texted you this, but yours and Florence’s performances were so breathtakingly beautiful. I know you hate compliments, but this film needs to be seen by as many people as possible. It’s gut-wrenching and sad, but it’s also so romantic, so full of joy. Every moment where I thought it was going to get too heavy, it brought us back into light. I think that in life, with all of the darkest moments, you also have moments of unbelievable joy and levity. You and Florence brought that in spades. I really was inconsolable.

Andrew Garfield: It’s a British sensibility, isn’t it, to try for gallows humour, but also you’ve got to laugh to keep from crying. I’m discovering this more as I age. The more I accept grief, loss, sorrow and the hard stuff, the more I feel it, the more capacity I have for joy, love and proper connection. We’re so conditioned to the opposite now because the world is so horrifically divided and scary. The future is so uncertain, it’s really hard to have an open heart. There are so many good reasons to be defensive, to be closed off, to have our hearts be really calcified, to be full of irony and to be full of unwillingness to be truly vulnerable. It’s so scary to be honest, how fragile we all are.

This film shows two people, and it represents all of us. They are everyday people; they are universally acknowledged. They are faced with the reality that there’s only one way to have a meaningful life, and it’s by having an open-heartedness to the slings and arrows of life and just accepting this is the setup, this is the way it is. There’s no circumnavigating. There’s no ascending over the top of suffering. The only way through is through, and then, in going through and down, we get to the heart of things.