The Venice Film Festival is coming to an end, and the highlights of the 23 films in the competition have basically been screened, with mixed reviews, and no blockbuster has become the leader of the Golden Lion Awards. But the one that dominates the most media space, is the most well-known, and the one that sparks the most heated discussion on social media is the film "Don't Worry Darling."
"Dear Don't Worry" poster
Before the change of personnel, the director and the new lead actor announced their relationship in a high profile
Directed by Olivia Wilde, "Dear Don't Worry" is the actress's second directorial work after her debut, "The High School Student." The film takes a psychological thriller route similar to "Black Mirror", but according to the director, it is still necessary to tell the core issues of feminism in the bones.
In addition to the director himself, the film's main cast includes Florence Pugh, who became popular with Black Widow, popular star Harry Styles, and Chris Pine, who starred in the Star Trek series and the Wonder Woman series. Filming began in the fall of 2020, but just before filming began, it was announced that the original lead actor Shea LaBeouf had withdrawn from the crew due to "schedule conflicts", and it was Harry Stiles, who was replaced by idol singer-turned-hero Harry Stiles.
"Dear Don't Worry" set photo, the filming of the film has many people infected with the new crown, and later the crew members all wear masks
In November 2020, "Dear Don't Worry", which had only been filming for a short time, was forced to stop work because someone in the crew was infected with the new crown. During the quarantine, director Olivia Wilde and comedian Jason Suddakis, who is nine years older than her, announced their breakup. The two became engaged in 2013 and have had two children since. In recent years, the silver couple has made great breakthroughs in their careers, with the American drama "Ted Lasso" created and starring Sudikis becoming popular all over the world, Wilde also being directed by actors, and his debut film "High Quality Student" is one of the most critically acclaimed Hollywood movies in 2020. However, a successful career does not mean that the family will be happy, and the two have lived together for exactly ten years, and decided to part ways, and it is said that they broke up peacefully.
Olivia Wilde and Harry Stiles have been photographed by the media holding hands several times
The quarantine period expired, and filming resumed for "Dear Don't Worry.". Not long after, Harry Stiles' agent was having a wedding in Los Angeles, where he and Olivia Wilde, who had recently returned to singleness, attended, and the two did not shy away from clasping their fingers and officially opening up the relationship. Stiles is ten years younger than Wilde, and is one of the most popular male idols at the moment, and his every move has attracted the attention of countless fans, and the relationship between the two on the set is bound to become the focus of the Internet.
Since then, the film has been successfully completed, but at the CinemaCon film conference held later, when Warner Bros. Pictures arranged for director Olivia Wilde to come to the stage to promote "Dear Don't Worry", suddenly a messenger came to the stage to hand her a courier, which surprised the audience. Afterwards, the female director generously revealed that the courier was sent by her ex-husband Sudages, and it contained legal documents about the custody of the two children. Whether it is deliberately done by the man to retaliate against the woman's rapid new love, or whether the woman and the film company will stop at nothing to produce the topic, for a time there are many opinions.
Stills from "Dear Don't Worry"
The reason for the change of corners has made waves again
To be fair, the story of the director falling in love with the starring actor on the film shooting scene, and the long history of the film, can be said to be numerous. Some people say that this is not a distinction between public and private, and some people think that this is love house and Wu, but in any case, it is only a private matter of the parties, as long as it does not violate public order and good customs (in fact, even if it is a shooting scene that violates public order and good customs, it is not uncommon in Hollywood history), it is normal and reasonable. Of course, this time the director and actor, the gender has changed, the female director is in love with the male star, and the talk is still about the sister-brother love, which will inevitably become the gossip news that the masses like to hear.
However, the off-the-film news of "Dear Don't Worry" is not limited to this. In August this year, Olivia Wilde was interviewed by Variety, talking about the withdrawal of the original male number one LaBeouf, and finally admitted that the so-called "schedule conflict" was false, because he misbehaved, and it was the truth that he was expelled after clashing with other actors.
Stills from "Dear Don't Worry"
Shea LaBeouf, who has been among the first-line actors because of the "Transformers" series, is a problem figure in Hollywood, and there are often negative news on the page, so the outside world does not feel much surprise about the director's sudden change of mouth. However, LaBeouf had to fight back to defend his reputation. He quickly reached out to Variety magazine and gave a version of the story that was diametrically opposed to Wilde's. He took out the text message he had sent to the director and tried to prove that he had voluntarily resigned from the stage, on the grounds that he "did not have enough time to rehearse with other actors." In the face of his resignation, director Wilde instead tried his best to retain. In a video that he handed over to Variety, director Wilde can be seen saying: "Hopefully this will give Miss Pew a little alarm bell, I hope she can really devote herself to it, I hope she can really put it in at this time, I hope you two can reconcile... What do you think? Is there still hope? ”
Shea LaBeouf played Energy Block Owner Sam Wittevich in Transformers
As soon as the video was released, netizens were hotly discussed. Did Director Wilde tell the truth about LaBeouf's firing? Is her professional attitude towards "Miss Pew" really critical? Soon followed up by lace media reports, Florence Pew was critical of the director's on-set relationship with Stiles; For the latter's film remuneration is three times that of his own, he is very dissatisfied. The director Wilde publicly refuted this statement, denouncing the so-called triple salary as a pure fabrication. But back to the official trailer of the film in July this year, Florence Pew, who has always interacted with her fans, did not recommend this new work on her social media, but instead shared the promotional poster of Nolan's new film "Oppenheimer" with everyone, which is really difficult not to make some associations.
Saliva is suspicious
On August 17, "Dear Don't Worry" announced its world premiere during the Venice Film Festival, but it was soon confirmed by the media that the actress Florence Pew would be present, but would not participate in any media interviews and interactive activities. On September 5, "Dear Don't Worry" landed on Lido, and the director and several leading actors attended a media meeting, but Florence Pew, who was filming Dune 2 in Budapest, did not attend. The statement given by the film side is naturally a matter of schedule relationship and flight, but Timothy Challemet, who is also filming "Dune 2", flew from Budapest to Venice early to promote the new film "Bones and All", plus "Dune 2" and "Dear Don't Worry" are both produced by Warner Pictures, so it is reasonable to say that the schedule and flight should not be a problem.
At the media meeting, the film itself seemed to have no one to care about, and reporters were asking whether there was really a contradiction and disagreement between the director and the heroine. Wilde blamed all of this as the imagination of gossip media and good people, and sincerely thanked Pew for his great contribution to the film.
On September 5, 2022, local time, the 79th Venice International Film Festival, the premiere of the film "Dear Don't Worry". Lead creators Nick Crowell, Florence Pew, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilder, Sidney Chandler, Harry Stiles, Gemma Chen and others attended. Visual China figure
Later in the red carpet ceremony and premiere event, Pew did come as promised, although there was little interaction with the director, but the whole crew can be regarded as a family in a neat and tidy. But "Dear Don't Worry" seems destined to be inseparable from gossip news early on. Out of nowhere, a video of Harry Stiles spitting on a neighboring Chris Pine at the premiere suddenly went viral on social media, pushing the national gossip surrounding the film to a new climax. Suddenly, American netizens have all become Holmes, they use various scientific means, frame by frame, to find out the truth of the matter, even if both parties directly deny this absurd statement, many netizens are not willing to give up.
"Dear Don't Worry" currently has only 43% of the critics' praise on the film review collection website Rotten Tomatoes
"Dear Don't Worry" currently has only 43% of the critics' praise on the film review collection website "Rotten Tomatoes", but at this point, how the film itself is made seems to no longer be concerned. However, by the day when "Dear Don't Worry" was officially released in North America on September 23, it was still very curious whether this wave of negative topics could heat up the box office of the film.