TORONTO (AP) 鈥� Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield made one the most emotionally wrecking, tenderly exquisite of their careers. But what鈥檚 from 鈥淲e Live in Time鈥�? A horse.
鈥淲e Live in Time,鈥� directed by John Crowley (鈥淏rooklyn鈥�), premiered over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival. In it, Pugh and Garfield play a couple whose life together isn鈥檛 told chronologically, but spans meeting, falling in love, having a child and battling cancer.
The film, which A24 will captures some elemental passages of life, with Pugh and Garfield giving extraordinarily lived-in performances.
When one of the first images from the film was released, it captured the pair on a merry-go-round, a good representation of the movie at its most joyful. But at the bottom of the frame was a yellow carousel steed with a cartoonishly bug-eyed expression.
The internet quickly went to work. One post has been viewed Stephen Colbert . Countless iterations followed.
When Pugh and Garfield sat down for an interview the day after their premiere, the conversation inevitably turned to the runaway meme and the horse that (despite Pugh鈥檚 initial confusion) is very, very briefly seen in the movie. Here are their (somewhat off-color) comments, straight from the 鈥� well, you know.
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GARFIELD: How do you feel about the horse?
PUGH: I was just so grateful it鈥檚 actually not in the movie.
GARFIELD: It is in the movie. It was there.
PUGH: Not it鈥檚 not. The head of it was. The eyes weren鈥檛. I was waiting for it.
GARFIELD: Dude, it was there. I'm sorry.
PUGH: When?
GARFIELD: In the scene when we鈥檙e on the thing. I promise you.
PUGH: I don鈥檛 think it was. I heard you laugh.
GARFIELD: It was there for a flash. Am I wrong?
PUGH: I don鈥檛 think it was in the movie, babe.
GARFIELD: Baby. This is undebatable.
PUGH: OK, maybe it wasn't in it as much as that picture was. But I was so worried when it went (all over) the internet. It was hilarious, and it was funny. But that part of the movie is my favorite part of the movie. It's when they鈥檙e like: OK, let鈥檚 go. Let鈥檚 go on a date. Let鈥檚 have sex. Let鈥檚 get pregnant. Let's just do it.
GARFIELD: And then the horse steals the show!
PUGH: And I was just so worried that that amazing, gorgeous, glittery moment was going to be s鈥�- on by this horse meme 鈥� which was hilarious, sure. But I was like, 鈥淣o! Not at that point in the movie.鈥� So I think last night I was so grateful that it wasn't, like, (makes horse face) doing the thing that it does in that picture, which ruins it.
GARFIELD: Man, I love the horse meme. I was about to go into a retreat for six days where I wouldn鈥檛 have my phone. And I saw this image for our film that had been released. And I noticed the horse. And I was like, 鈥淲hoa, that鈥檚 an interesting choice.鈥� I don't know, did I approve that? I'm pretty sure Florence didn't approve that.
PUGH: You know, it wasn鈥檛 approved.
GARFIELD: (Nods). So I saw that and I was like, 鈥淥h, that鈥檚 a choice, man.鈥滱h, I鈥檓 sure I鈥檓 the only one to notice it." Turn my phone off for six days. When I鈥檓 in the departure lounge coming back from wherever I was, I turn my phone on finally. And it鈥檚 just horse meme. I was wrong. People noticed it. And Colbert noticed and did a whole monologue on it. Honestly, I was crying.
PUGH: I loved It was brilliant. 鈥淏oJack Horseman.鈥�
GARFIELD: And the one where it鈥檚 like . Some of my favorite ones I have saved. (Garfield pulls out his phone and then reconsiders.) Actually, I鈥檓 not going to open up my photos right now.
PUGH: What's on your phone?
GARFIELD: Just lots of dick pics. My own. Cut this out.
PUGH: I didn鈥檛 know you could do press like this. I didn鈥檛 know you could say something outrageous and be like, 鈥淐ut.鈥� What鈥檚 worse is they鈥檙e next to your horse pics.
GARFIELD: Yeah, it does look like the ratio is off.
PUGH: Jesus Christ, Andrew.
GARFIELD: What, you set me up.
(A nearby publicist sighs audibly.)
PUGH: Did you just hear our publicists sigh? Please don鈥檛 cut this. Let him be punished. He鈥檒l never do it again.
GARFIELD: I will, that鈥檚 the problem. I鈥檓 insatiable when it comes to stupidity.
Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
