Andrew Garfield has seen all the memes of the carousel horse in We Live in Time, and he’s right here for them.
The Oscar-nominated actor stopped by The Late Present With Stephen Colbert forward of the movie’s launch in theaters. Throughout Garfield’s look on Wednesday, the host requested about the “demon carousel horse” featured in a promo photograph of Garfield and his co-star, Florence Pugh, which went viral when it was launched.
Garfield defined he noticed the promo photograph as he was “doom scrolling” proper earlier than going to a six-day retreat in Northern California, throughout which he wouldn’t have his cellphone.
“I see this image, and I think, ‘Maybe I’m the only one that will notice this insane horse,’” he informed Colbert. “‘It feels like we’re in his poster, in a way. No, I’m probably being overly sensitive. No one else will see it.’”
When the Tick, Tick … Growth! star completed his retreat and turned his cellphone again on, he mentioned the very first thing he noticed was Colbert speaking in his monologue about the horse. “I see all the memes, which are just, I was crying with laughter in the departure lounge,” he mentioned. “So I guess other people noticed it.”
Earlier than giving Colbert a shirt with a image of the horse on it, Garfield joked he was going to make a three-part documentary collection “to get to the bottom of like, where the oversight fell apart and why this horse has taken on a life of its own.”
We Live in Time follows Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield) as they’re introduced collectively by a shock encounter that modifications their lives. “As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of their unconventional love story,” the logline reads.
Apropos to the movie’s love story, Colbert took the alternative to ask Garfield about the first time he felt a brush with love. The Spider-Man: No Manner Dwelling actor recalled assembly a woman named Sarah at the bus cease when he was barely a teenager.
“She was singing the Spice Girls song, “If you wanna be my lover.” I used to be 4-foot-1. She was about 5-foot-11. Stunning blonde, simply porcelain pores and skin, simply beautiful. And he or she was singing that track, she mentioned, ‘Would you want to be my lover?’” he recounted. “I’m 13 and prepubescent, and I say, ‘Yes, I would love that.’ And she says, ‘I’m having a little gathering tonight at my house if you’d like to come.’ And I felt like the Fonzarelli from Happy Days.”
The connection didn’t final lengthy, although, Garfield admitted. He went over to her home, and as quickly as he obtained there, the cellphone rang. When Sarah got here again, she whispered to considered one of her mates, who approached him.
“She says, ‘Hey, Sarah’s breaking up with you because some stud from the neighboring high school just called and said, ‘Hey, do you want to be my lover?’ and I was obsessed for three years, and I’m OK now,” he joked whereas exaggeratedly trembling.
We Live in Time hits theaters Oct. 18.
