Perhaps the biggest issue is Styles’ acting? For a film set in the suburbs of 1950s America, this man is sounding very British Australian Irish unplaceable. Wilde has vehemently denied these claims as merely “ invented clickbait”. There was also another – again, unconfirmed – rumour too: around pay disparity between Styles and Pugh. As we all know, “a source told Page Six” is not a line that holds much credibility – and indeed other sources have denied that Wilde and Styles’ burgeoning relationship was ever an issue. Eventually, Wilde and Pugh swapped roles after deciding. Olivia Wilde directs this gripping 1950s-set drama starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, and Chris Pine. In April 2020, LaBeouf was initially announced to play the lead role of Jack, with Olivia Wilde cast as his co-lead Alice and Florence Pugh set to play a supporting role.

gave the movie the greenlight, with Pugh playing Alices best friend, Bunny. The timeline of it all is a little murky, but most agree that after Wilde split from her fiance Jason Sudeikis in November 2020, she met Styles while shooting Don’t Worry Darling and the pair were seen holding hands two months later (the most middle-school way of confirming a relationship possible).įast forward to July of this year: a source tells Page Six that “Flo seeing Olivia and Harry all over each other on set did not go down well”. Don't Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde's second directorial project after 2019's Booksmart is announced with a stellar cast including Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan and Wilde herself. Another Dont Worry Darling controversy that came into the public eye was the departure of Shia LaBeouf from the movie. Wilde told Variety that she was originally going to play Alice when Warner Bros. How does Harry Styles fit in? Well, the whole sordid affair is exacerbated by … the other affair happening on set. “If she really commits, if she really puts her mind and heart into it at this point and if you guys can make peace … what do you think? Is there hope?” “This might be a bit of a wake-up call for Miss Flo,” she says. Florence Pugh, the star of this movie, is doing the bare minimum as far as promoting the movie on her social media, not liking posts she is tagged in by Olivia Wilde, and promoting her future projects more than the one coming out in less than a month Some think things went sour on set and Florence hates the movie, particularly the sex scenes. He has a process that, in some ways, seems to require a combative energy … my responsibility is to the production and to the cast, to protect them.”īut then, the plot thickened: LaBeouf fired back his own receipts, claiming he was the one who chose to quit.Īmid the he said/she said, Pugh was caught in the crossfire – in one video LaBeouf shared with Variety, Wilde hints at on-set tensions with her. In an interview last month with Variety, Wilde says: “His process was not conducive to the ethos that I demand in my productions. The relationship between LaBeouf and Wilde quickly soured, and he was replaced in the role. Shia LaBeouf was initially cast in Styles’ role – a company man living with his wife (Pugh) in a Stepford-y town, whose world begins to unravel when shady stuff goes down at work.

So let’s whip back to 2020, the early stages of the film’s production. Dont Worry Darling, Olivia Wildes second directorial project after 2019s Booksmart is announced with a stellar cast including Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan and Wilde herself. While she expected Harry Styles' casting to put more of a spotlight on the project, the Oscar nominated actress lamented about this fixation with love scenes.A newly released still from Don’t Worry Darling (2022) /s0P8gvba3e- Meech August 26, 2022

This comes just shortly after Florence Pugh offered her own two cents about how much focus people are putting on Don't Worry Darling's sex scenes, rather than the movie itself. and Florence Pugh, who stars in the film as Alice. And related to the already infamous sex scene and simulated cunnilingus in the movie, she said how she wants the audience to 'realize how rarely they see female hunger, and specifically this type of female pleasure' in film. Shia LaBeouf has come forward to dispute the assertion that he was fired from Don’t Worry Darling by director Olivia Wilde just as. The filmmaker recently spoke to her approach to sex in the movie, revealing to Vogue show she asked 'why isn't there any good sex scenes in movies anymore?' prior to creating the project. And the marketing of said sex scenes are rumored to be the cause of a feud between Pugh and Olivia Wilde. But one thing is clear: Florence Pugh and Harry Styles are going to have some wild sex scenes, with some of the buzz surrounding the movie happening for that very reason. The contents of Don't Worry Darling are largely being kept under wraps, with the trailer revealing the intriguing limited footage from the thriller.

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