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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Don’t dribble, darling: did Harry Styles really spit at Chris Pine?

Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Harry Styles and Gemma Chan at the premiere for Don’t Worry Darling.
Lap of the gobs … Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Harry Styles and Gemma Chan at the premiere for Don’t Worry Darling. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

If you have TikTok, or Twitter, or any social media at all really, there is a very good chance that you have been repeatedly subjected to the same clip all day. If it is real, it is one of the most bizarre clips that has ever made it to the internet. It is a clip of Harry Styles spitting at Chris Pine at the Don’t Worry Darling premiere.

Anyone who has been keeping abreast of Don’t Worry Darling will know that it isn’t particularly good. The BBC called it “an empty shell”, The Daily Beast said that Harry Styles’s “bastardized British accent is a distraction” and Peter Bradshaw observed that the whole film is “a movie marooned in a desert of unoriginality”. But then the film would have had to be an outright masterpiece to overcome its own behind the scenes chaos.

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