Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh Are Big Fans of the ‘BoJack Horseman’ Memes Mocking Their Movie
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh are two of the most talented actors working in Hollywood today. But three weeks ago, they were completely upstaged by a goofy looking wooden horse.
Garfield and Pugh are starring together in the upcoming drama We Live in Time, a “decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.” But when A24 released a still from the movie earlier this month, depicting Garfield and Pugh riding a merry-go-round, the tender romance of the scene depicted in the image was completely overshadowed by the fucked-up horse face bobbing into the bottom of the frame.
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The hilarious equine intrusion immediately inspired countless memes. They say that “no publicity is bad publicity,” but it’s probably not great that the breakout star of this heart-wrenching love story is a photobombing nightmare steed.
Well, Garfield and Pugh are totally aware of this meme, and discussed the issue while promoting the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival. In an interview with the Associated Press, Pugh expressed her relief that the notorious horse head doesn’t appear in the final film. “I was just so worried that that amazing, gorgeous, glittery moment was going to be shit on by this horse meme,” she admitted.
When Garfield saw the photo, he was just about to “go into a retreat for six days where I wouldn’t have my phone.” Initially, he thought that it wouldn’t be a huge deal. “I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a choice, man. Ah, I’m sure I’m the only one to notice it.’”
But when he switched his phone back on a week later, that was far from the case. “I was wrong,” Garfield recalled. “People noticed it. And Colbert noticed and did a whole monologue on it. Honestly, I was crying.”
Pugh and Garfield revealed that they “love” the memes, especially the BoJack Horseman mash-ups. Garfield apparently enjoyed them so much that he saved some on his phone, which he reached to share during the interview, but then awkwardly stopped himself, declaring: “Actually, I’m not going to open up my photos right now.”
When Pugh questioned: “What’s on your phone?” The former Spider-Man responded: “Just lots of dick pics. My own. Cut this out.” You know it’s a good interview when the parenthetical phrase “a nearby publicist sighs audibly” appears.
Of course, this isn’t the first time that Garfield and BoJack Horseman have intersected; he was parodied on the show back in the first season.
Not only was Garfield totally okay with this, it actually led him to some kind of emotional catharsis. As he once told BBC Radio 1, BoJack was his “comfort show” for a while. One night, when he was feeling down following a disappointing stage performance, he watched the episode in which BoJack loses the part of Seabiscuit to Garfield, because “you don’t say no to Spider-Man.”
Somehow this weird combination of the show’s protagonist being rejected in favor of the show’s viewer at that particular moment helped the real Garfield process his emotions. “I was BoJack, but also I was me,” Garfield explained. ”I was the one getting in my way, because I was BoJack. I just sobbed uncontrollably to myself, à la BoJack.”
It remains to be seen whether or not We Live in Time will be as much of a tearjerker as the average episode of BoJack Horseman.
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