Even having a pop phenomenon as the lead and Wilde’s extensive promotional tour, the film would not be getting this much attention if it weren’t for all this drama. LaBeouf refuted her statement, saying he left the film on his own accord and provided a long list of receipts to back his story-and the issues surrounding the film haven’t slowed down since.īut let’s be honest. Wilde found herself in an awkward situation when she claimed in an interview with Variety to have fired Shia LaBeouf, whom she cast as the lead actor in the film before hiring Harry Styles. Although critics are praising Pugh for her performance, it’s the behind-the-scenes controversies, which entail everything from rumored feuds, on-set romances, potential spitting between co-stars, and casting issues, that have gotten ahold of people’s attention.

This is Olivia Wilde’s sophomore film as a director, and the psychological thriller aims to go inside the mind of a woman named Alice Chambers ( Florence Pugh) who begins to discover secrets about her seemingly perfect husband and life. “I know as a director how disruptive it is to lose an actor even for a day so I’m very grateful to her and Denis Villeneuve for helping us-we’re really thrilled we’ll get to celebrate her work tonight.It’s been a while since a film has caused as much of a media frenzy as Don’t Worry Darling has before its release. “Florence is a force, and we are so grateful that she is able to make it tonight despite being in production on Dune,” she told reporters. At the Press Conference, Wilde Fields (Some) Questions About Pugh and LaBeoufĪt the Pugh-less press conference, Wilde insisted that she was unbothered by the drama surrounding her sophomore feature directorial effort. Yet her costar Timothée Chalamet was able to attend press obligations-and cause a fashionable stir-for his own Venice premiere project, the cannibalism romance Bones and All. Missing from the introductory photo-call was Pugh, who would land after the press conference-allegedly due to her Dune: Part Two filming schedule, People wrote. On Monday morning, Wilde and Styles arrived in separate boats to the festival-she in a bright green Chanel couture suit, he in a blazer and wide-leg denim from his upcoming Gucci HA HA HA collection. Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles Arrive in His-and-Hers Water Taxis

Ahead, a timeline of all the drama at Venice-from strategic water taxi exits to an action-packed standing ovation.

And in recent weeks, controversy about whether Shia LaBeouf had quit or was fired from DWD bubbled over.Īlas, Don’t Worry Darling’s Venice bow had all the making of a Shakespearean drama meets E! True Hollywood Story. Amid her real-life relationship with Styles, Wilde was reportedly served custody papers from ex Jason Sudeikis while presenting her film onstage at CinemaCon in April. First, there were rumors that Wilde and Pugh had been feuding, perhaps because Pugh “wasn’t a fan of her director disappearing so often with her leading man” during filming, as insiders recently told Puck’s Matthew Belloni. Rumors of drama and discontent have plagued DWD for weeks after Florence Pugh and Harry Styles’s steamy onscreen chemistry was first unveiled in a series of mysterious trailers. At the beginning of his review for Don’t Worry Darling- Olivia Wilde’s buzzy thriller- Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson asks if we can “put aside all the various mini-controversies that surrounded the lead-up to the Venice premiere.” But given the amount of drama and intrigue to surround the film’s splashy debut on Monday, that’s going to be tough.

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