A delightful surprise awaited guests of the premiere screening of Andrew Garfield's latest film "We Live in Time" at the London Film Festival last night. No, not the yellow—painted opera scarf—the lifesize cutout of Florence Pugh, who starred in the film with him.
Pugh's straight, flat figure, like a plastic bag carried by a woman on a night out, matched wonderfully with Garfield's attire. He went for a tailored lavender-colored two-piece suit '70s Valentino by creative director Alessandro Michele that came with a profuse and vividly patterned silk shirt. While his black leather Valentino loafers went well with his belt, Garfield still felt incomplete without his 5-foot-4-inch cardboard cutout. At various intervals across the red carpet, he happily placed Pugh so that an arm encircled the non-living form's waist.
The actual Pugh, who missed out on the premiere owing to a shooting schedule mess, shared post tears with Garfield and her flat reincarnation on Instagram, labeling the act as "clever." Yet again, it is not the first incidence where a famous person has resorted to cardboard cutouts to make their colleagues feel present. Will Ferrell launched into a Brad Pitt cutout-carrying stint as he attended a "Megamind" panel at Comic-Con, among other things, courtesy of rumors that Pitt would make an appearance. And, in the most recent one, the students are perfecting a new art of class prom and having inanimate dates to the prom, and guess what? Instead of flowers, students are cleaning what is called a prom date box, which is full of 'in-law' cutouts of famous people' like Michael B. Jordan, Bernie Sanders, and Danny De Vito.
To those not convinced we can consider a cardboard fan as an accessory, Michael Kors refers to an accessory as "the exclamation mark of a man's or woman's outfit." And probably more than any other match solemate and belt pair, a co-star's cutout is the most excess you can have.