Chris Pine Loves Your ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Memes

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, in which he starred as a tyrannical dystopian ruler alongside , , and director . But he’s remained tight-lipped on any behind-the-scenes discord, those viral Venice Film Festival premiere memes, and the speculation that —that is, until now.

In a new interview with , Pine fielded a series of questions surrounding the film’s release, stating simply: “If there was drama, there was drama.

I absolutely didn’t know about it, nor really would I have cared. If I feel badly, it’s because the vitriol that the movie got was absolutely out of proportion with what was onscreen.”Pine was largely on the periphery of any controversy, which centered on rumored tension between Wilde and Pugh, as well as the , whom she hired after messily parting ways professionally with original leading man Shia LaBeouf.

Pine’s biggest contribution to the discourse was what he didn’t say at the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere, where  appearing disinterested in headphones during a press conference went viral. “All the memes I saw about my face in Venice made me fucking laugh,” Pine admitted. “Sometimes the question’s not that interesting, and you just fucking zone out, and you’re looking at a ceiling because it’s really pretty.”Perhaps in an effort to insert Pine’s opinion into the drama, many bought into the idea that Styles spat on his Don’t Worry Darling costar en route to his seat at the premiere.