Andrew Garfield replaces Florence Pugh with a cardboard silhouette

CINEMA – As if nothing had happened. John Crowley’s new romantic drama, Love in the present premiered at the BFI London Film Festival this Thursday, October 17. And to remedy the absence of Florence Pugh on the red carpet, her playing partner Andrew Garfield found a rather unusual solution.

Duck blue suit, colorful shirt, patterned yellow scarf, Andrew Garfield already had everything to get noticed by photographers. But above all, the actor came to the biggest British film festival with a cardboard silhouette of Florence Pugh. And the former Spider-Man interpreter multiplies the poses with the life-size representation of the actress.

This cardboard version of Florence Pugh wore the same clothes as the original at the Toronto film festival where the film was first shown. A “stroke of genius” greeted the actress on Instagram after regretting not being able to be present in London.

John Crowley’s dramatic comedy, in which the two actors play each other, has already been available in the United States since October 11, but you will have to wait until January 1, 2025 for the theatrical release in France and the United Kingdom.

The film already has an internet meme

The love story between newly divorced Tobias (Andrew Garfield) and Almut (Florence Pugh) promises non-linear storytelling and moving performances from both performers. But that’s not the main reason why Love in the present made waves on social media.

On one of the posters, we see the couple happy and smiling on a carousel. But below, one of the horses on the carousel seems straight out of a children’s cartoon. Internet users quickly seized on this image to integrate the horse almost everywhere in pop culture.

Andrew Garfield had already noticed the image, but he had no idea that the horse would go viral, as he told Entertainment Weekly. “I saw it and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s fun.’ But I figured they knew what they were doing, that it was probably just me, that I was hypervigilant and probably the only one to notice that weird horse in the foreground.” thought the actor then.

After six days of rest, he discovered that the meme had gained momentum and that Stephen Colbert had even done a sketch about it as an introduction to his Late Show. Not vengeful, Andrew Garfield offered a t-shirt bearing the image of the famous horse to the presenter during his last appearance on the show.

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