(In the time since leaving Don’t Worry Darling, LaBeouf was sued by ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs over allegations of physical and emotional abuse.) LaBeouf also shared a video Wilde sent him in which she sought to get him back involved with the movie and refers to Pugh as “Miss Flo.” Pugh does use the nickname “Flo,” but the context here makes the moniker come off condescendingly. LaBeouf denied that was why he didn’t stick with the film, telling Variety he left of his own volition due to conflicts over rehearsal time. Much of the controversy around Don’t Worry Darling began in late August, when Wilde told Variety she had fired Shia LaBeouf as the male lead because his “combative energy” was not conducive to the kind of “safe, trusting environment” she wanted to foster on set. Pine has since denied, in a statement provided to Variety through his rep, that any such bizarre event happened. This would, again, allegedly, be in reaction to Pine’s 10,000 yard stare during a particularly rough Harry Styles comment during the press conference, which launched countless memes. Some think that Styles spat on Pine while returning to his seat at the festival–the perceived evidence being a brief sound in the video that could be loogie-hocking (or quite literally anything else), and the way Pine abruptly stops applauding and gives an incredulous smirk. While much of the drama surrounding the film’s Venice appearance has involved subliminal social media messages and slights with plausible deniability, the internet has fixated on one particular clip, Zaprudering it with staggering precision. The movie, which stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, and Chris Pine, played at the illustrious Venice Film Festival, and though it received a lengthy standing ovation, there was plenty of rumored chaos afoot, the result of a crescendoing PR mess that’s been building for weeks. Of course, in the case of Olivia Wilde’s psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, it hasn’t exactly been for the intended reasons. In the era of incessant sequels and superhero IP, it’s refreshing that a film with a modest $20ish million budget can dominate the zeitgeist.
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