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All the drama surrounding the new psychological thriller “Don’t Worry Darling” isn’t taking place onscreen. It’s happening in real life.
The movie, which stars Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as a young married couple living in a dreamy 1950s-style suburban community that isn’t as ideal as it looks, doesn’t even arrive in theaters until Sept. 23. But for months, director Olivia Wilde’s film has been generating buzz – and not in a positive way, unless you’re all about Hollywood canoodling, passive-aggressive interviews, celebrity feuds, icy red-carpet appearances and manly loogies.
Not hip to the movie’s various scandals and controversies? Don’t worry, darlings, we’ve got you. Here’s everything you need to know about the drama:
The first footage previewed the film’s retro setting and also its sensual side, with glimpses of Styles and Pugh’s characters getting busy in a bedroom and also an oral sex scene on a dining room table. If Wilde had her way, there would have been more: Wilde acknowledged in a recent interview with The Associated Press that she “had to cut some shots” for the trailer when “the MPAA came down hard on me.”
Pugh, however, didn’t love the attention the steamy sequences brought. (She has other complaints, which we’ll get to.) “It’s not why I’m in this industry,” Pugh said in a Harper’s Bazaar cover story.
The Las Vegas convention for theater owners was ground zero for more hubbub: Midway through her presentation, Wilde was handed a manila envelope labeled “personal and confidential” by someone from the audience. She thought it was at first a script but they turned out to be papers served by her ex Jason Sudeikis related to custody of their two children.
Wilde called the incident “really vicious.
