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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.
