Olivia Wilde addressed rumours of an on-set “screaming match” with co-star Florence Pugh during production for her 2022 directorial debut, Don’t Worry Darling.
In case your memory needs a little jogging, the film, starring Pugh and Harry Styles, was famously marred with controversy after controversy (remember spit-gate?), including reporting by Vulture of an argument between Pugh and Wilde on-set, allegedly due to Wilde and Styles constantly “disappearing”.
Well, in a recent interview with The Cut, Wilde denied she and Pugh ever fought, saying, “I’ve never had a screaming match on my set. I was never not available on set.”
At the time, 40 crew members fired back to Vulture’s reporting, delivering a signed statement to Deadline asserting Wilde’s upstanding performance as a director and disputing the claim against her as gossip.
However, this was not enough to quell public scrutiny, and Wilde felt perceptions of her shifted, saying she “became the full-on villain. Like Cruella.” However, she was advised not to respond publicly, saying, “I was told, ‘Don’t say a f*cking word. Just go out there and smile’.”
“I resent that, but it taught me it’s not the way I want to handle things,” she said.
This isn’t the first time Wilde has spoken about this period of her life. The actress sat down with Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper last week and opened up about the disconnect between the public conversation and her personal experiences.
“I never felt more disconnected from the person that people were talking about,” Wilde said. “It was also very strange to see complete fiction traded as fact.”
And while neither Wilde nor Cooper brought up any previous conflict with Pugh, they did go on to discuss her relationship with Styles, which started shortly after she split from then fiancée, Jason Sudeikis.
“People were f*cking pissed,” she said of the public reaction, but privately, “We had the loveliest relationship, so sweet and so beautiful and very domestic, kind, and lovely.”
“We existed in this little bubble,” Wilde added.
The couple met on the set of Don’t Worry Darling and dated for approximately two years before calling it quits in 2022.
Wilde did go on to address one of Don’t Worry Darling’s most memorable dramas: spit-gate! For the uninitiated, Spit-Gate was a clip of Harry Styles at the Venice Film Festival, where it looked like he spat on Chris Pine. And the world lost its mind.
Well, for the cast themselves, Wilde said they all got home after the festival, and PR called to try to find out the tea.
Though Wilde of course shut it down (no, there was no spitting), the fact it happened demonstrated to her how out of control the conversations had become, saying, “But then the fact that it turned into this massive thing. I was like ‘Ok, we’ve tilted into a world of like insanity, complete surrealism.’”
Olivia Wilde is now back in the director’s chair with her new movie, The Invite, hitting theatres soon. So far, no spit or screaming matches have been a part of the press run, but there’s still time.
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