12/30/2023 0 Comments Wilde movie![]() It specifically trivialises Wilde’s film and her filmmaking. ‘Falling out’? The language most often levelled at squabbling teenage girls (who are also done a disservice by it), used about one of the best actors and most promising new directors working today? It’s language, and a focus, that trivialises. “Can you just clear the air and address whether there has been a falling out there and if so why, because it’s something that people are discussing,” asked a journalist, serving up today’s gossip like a cat choking up a fur ball at Wilde’s feet. ![]() And of course, her appearance in Venice, for the film’s premiere, where not just skipping the press conference was scrutinised, but every outfit, glance and word twisted and turned until it all reflected back the ugly house of mirrors Olivia Wilde had apparently built. But thank god we had unnamed sources to fill in the gaps! To anonymously claim that Pugh was unhappy about Styles and Wilde’s relationship, that she ‘sided’ with Sudeikis, that she even had to direct herself sometimes. We were at a gallop now as the scrutiny of Florence Pugh’s social media began: she was posting too little, not liking Wilde’s posts enough. Then came reports and counter-reports on whether the originally-cast Shia LaBeouf had been fired or chosen to leave, which saw private videos, emails and texts leaked. ![]() The timing was endlessly speculated on (she was separated from fiancé Jason Sudeikis). The hysteria around the news they were dating was just that: hysteria. It all began when Wilde and Don’t Worry Darling actor Harry Styles were papped attending a friend’s wedding. Most strikingly, this isn’t just the stuff of tabloids, it’s seeped through into film culture, with critics and journalists and readers swept up in speculation and giddy fascination at a woman having her work barely taken seriously while her character and privacy are cracked open. And more specifically, that of a director who was as rinsed and wrung out as Olivia Wilde. And out of those hundreds, thousands, I struggle to recall one that has come close to the circus of toxicity and triviality that Don’t Worry Darling has turned out to be. I saw the press conferences, the junkets, the premieres, read the headlines and columns and interviews I went on set visits, did some of those interviews myself, walked the red carpet before the talent had even left their hotel and studied the reviews. In my six years as Editor-in-Chief of EMPIRE Magazine, I saw hundreds, thousands, of films (and TV shows) launch.
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