Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield Love the Horse Memes

If you missed it, the memes stem from a carousel horse with a bug-eyed expression that appears in the corner of a promotional image for the film. One post has been viewed nearly 50 million times, with Stephen Colbert even referencing the horse on his talk show.

In We Live in Time, Pugh and Garfield play lovers in a turbulent relationship which involves childbirth and cancer. It’s earning rave reviews, which is why it’s understandable Pugh would be concerned the horse meme could detract from it.

She admits thinking it would steal the show, saying, “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.”

Garfield discovered the horse had gone viral after turning his phone off for six days, saying, “So I saw that and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a choice, man.”Ah, I’m sure I’m the only one to notice it.’ Turn my phone off for six days. When I’m in the departure lounge coming back from wherever I was, I turn my phone on finally. And it’s just horse meme. I was wrong. People noticed it. And Colbert noticed and did a whole monologue on it. Honestly, I was crying.”

Click here to see Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in the moving first trailer for We Live in Time.