“I saw it and thought, ‘Oh, that’s distracting,'” the actor says.
Andrew Garfieldhas seen your horse memes and he kinda expected them.
It even gota major featureinStephen Colbert’sLate Showmonologue.
‘We Live in Time’.A24
“That pony is tripping balls on ketamine,” Colbert quipped.
The horse then popped up on screen for a brief interview with Colbert.
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But from the moment he saw the image, Garfield suspected it could go viral.
Andrew Garfield in ‘We Live in Time’.Courtesy of A24
“I saw it and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s distracting,'” he tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“‘I’m sure they know what they’re doing though.
That’s probably just me.
I’m just probably hyper-vigilant.
I’m probably the only one that’s noticing this freaky horse in the foreground.’
And then I went away on a retreat, and I had my phone off for six days.
I was like, ‘Okay.
I guess other people noticed.'”
“It is very distracting and prominent in the frame,” he continues.
“It was a mistake.”
Still, that doesn’t mean that Garfield was upset by the turn of events.
“I cried with laughter when I discovered all the memes.”
This was evident in a joint interview Garfield and Pugh did with theAssociated Press.
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Someone who was taken aback by it, however, was director John Crowley.
“I’m not a social media creature,” he says.
I thought it was hysterically funny, though.
I then caught up with all the memes, and my kids think it’s the coolest thing ever.
It’s very funny, isn’t it?
What people see that you do not see yourself."
Still, Crowley does note that the horse was not a creation of his art department.
It was part of a real, working Victorian steam fair.
“Those horses were absolutely real,” he notes.
But the entire carousel was horses that looked like that.
And now they will never look the same to me again."
