Florence Pugh’s Next Period Drama Is Inspired By a Chilling True Story

Florence Pugh will limit her press tour for the upcoming thriller Don’t Worry Darling, according to reports.The Olivia Wilde-directed psychological thriller, starring Harry Styles and Chris Pine tells the story of a seemingly perfect suburban life in the 1950s.However, cracks in Jack (Harry) and Alice’s (Florence) marriage begin to show when Alice is forced to question everything she’s known and whether the idealised community of Victory is real at all.An official synopsis for the movie explains how Jack works for the top-secret Victory Project, spending all day in the headquarters with CEO Frank (Chris Pine) and the other husbands in the community.However, reports claim that the Black widow actress, 26, is only promoting the film at the Venice Film Festival.‘She’ll be doing greetings for us from the set of Dune because she’s not doing press,’ a New Line Cinema executive told The Wrap. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoThis comes after Page Six alleged that Florence and director Olivia clashed behind the scenes because her romance with global sensation Harry ‘didn’t go down too well’ with Florence.When the first trailer for the film was released in May, it showed a scintillating moment in which Alice and Harry’s on-screen character engage in oral sex on a dining room table – and it was all fans on social media could talk about.During a recent interview, Oxford actress Florence refused to speak about the scene and criticized viewers for reducing the film to just one sex scene.‘When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it.

Whoa! If you were expecting Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh to put whatever beef they have aside to promote their new movie together, you can forget about it!

Olivia Wilde can be heard saying that Florence Pugh should have a 'wake-up call' in a leaked video that emerged on Friday, fueling rumors of major drama behind the scenes of their upcoming film Don't Worry Darling.The video was leaked after Shia LaBeouf refuted Wilde's claim that he had been fired from the project, and in the footage Wilde, 38, can be heard encouraging LaBeouf to stay signed on to the film, rather than leave it, while also hinting at some apparent tension with Pugh, 26. 'Shia, Shia, Shia...,' Wilde begins playfully in the video, which she appears to have recorded while driving. 'I just went riding with my horse, [I'm] very sweaty, but I wanted to reach out because I feel like I'm not ready to give up on this yet.'Seemingly referencing Pugh, who she calls 'Miss Flo,' Wilde continues: 'And, I too am heartbroken, and I want to figure this out.

Don’t Worry Darling is finally on its way to theaters, but its journey to the big screen has been rife with drama.

Saying her piece. Olivia Wilde responded to Florence Pugh feud rumors after reports she cheated with Harry Styles on Jason Sudeikis.

With under a month until its premiere, "Don't Worry Darling" is already garnering an abundance of press. Florence Pugh snagged the lead role as Alice, but layers of controversy surrounding her leading man are just heating up.  The role of Jack, played by Harry Styles, was originally offered to and accepted by Shia LaBeouf.

Olivia Wilde may be ready to burn bridges when it comes to the father of her children, but not when it comes to the star of her upcoming movie!

Variety that she originally envisioned the “Watermelon Sugar” singer for the role of Jack, the sketchy husband of a suburban housewife named Alice, but Styles, 28, had already hit the road for a global tour. Thus, LaBeouf, 36, was cast instead. But by early production in 2020, Wilde said the “Honeyboy” actor had to go.

Olivia Wilde is speaking up about a recent report that stated a pay gap between Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, in reference to their latest film ‘Don’t Worry Darling.’The director of the highly anticipated film talked about the ongoing rumor during her interview with Variety, as it was reported that the singer was getting paid three times more than the actress.Now Olivia is denying all reports regarding the salary of the two stars, including a rumor that claimed Pugh was “unhappy about Wilde and Styles’ relationship.”“There has been a lot out there that I largely don’t pay attention to,” Olivia said. “But the absurdity of invented clickbait and subsequent reaction regarding a nonexistent pay disparity between our lead and supporting actors really upset me.”The filmmaker went on to say that she has been an advocate for equal payment in the entertainment industry, and had a great experience working with both actors.“I’m a woman who has been in this business for over 20 years, and it’s something that I have fought for myself and others, especially being a director.

Olivia Wilde showers Florence Pugh with compliments in a profuse manner for 's cover story, perhaps in an effort to dispel rumors the two are on the outs. But despite all the adulation, Wilde has been met with silence from Pugh.The 38-year-old director opened up about why she decided to cast the star for the lead role of Alice in the psychological thriller, , starring Pugh, Wilde's boyfriend, Harry Styles, and Chris Pine. According to, the studio had set its sights on another actress, but Wilde, following a lunch meeting with Pugh, knew she had found her Alice.«I had been blown the f**k away by her,» says Wilde, while referencing the 2019 horror.

The director of “Don’t Worry Darling” is dispelling some rumours.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior Correspondent If you haven’t heard of “Don’t Worry Darling,” you’ve probably read something about it. Olivia Wilde’s upcoming movie has become one of the most talked-about films of the year, especially considering it doesn’t even hit theaters for another month. Ever since “Don’t Worry Darling” was announced, the psychological thriller has attracted considerable attention in the tabloids and across social media with internet sleuths picking apart each and every detail of the film that stars Florence Pugh and Harry Styles. The latest gossip to come from the “Don’t Worry Darling” rumor mill claimed that Styles made more than three times Pugh’s salary on the film. (While Styles is the male lead, Pugh is, without question, the star of “Don’t Worry Darling.”)

Olivia Wilde is talking about the O-word. No, not the Oscars, but her approach to sex scenes in her new movie, “Don’t Worry Darling.” “Men don’t come in this film,” she declares over cucumber sandwiches and scones at Claridge’s, just blocks away from Buckingham Palace. “Only women here!” In Wilde’s second directorial outing after 2019’s indie high school coming-of-age story “Booksmart,” Florence Pugh and Harry Styles star as a married couple living in a quaint, experimental utopia called Victory. Pugh plays Alice, a “Mad Men”-type housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing disturbing truths underneath her seemingly perfect world. When the trailer for the sci-fi thriller dropped in May, social media was buzzing about Styles’ character, Jack, going down on Alice on top of a dining room table.

Olivia Wilde has cast now-boyfriend Harry Styles in the role of Jack and Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh as Alice in her new movie, Don't Worry Darling, which is set in the 1950s.The upcoming movie, which will be released on September 23, follows Jack and his wife Alice, who suspects that her husband is keeping disturbing secrets.Don't Worry Darling, which is Olivia's second movie as a director, will have its fair share of sex scenes as the director told Vogue: "The 1950s get this rap as a very controlled, conservative era, when in fact it was incredibly debaucherous.

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Harry Styles in upcoming psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling.Directed by Olivia Wilde, the film follows young couple Alice (Pugh) and Jack Chambers (Styles) in the 1950s, whose happy marriage starts to unravel when she becomes suspicious of her husband’s work on a secret project.A lot of attention around the film has been drawn to the sex scenes between Pugh and Styles, with director Wilde saying last year she wanted to make audiences “realise how rarely they see female hunger, and specifically this type of female pleasure” on screens.Speaking to Harpers Bazaar, however, Pugh said she doesn’t want Don’t Worry Darling to be “reduced” to the sex scenes.“When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it,” Pugh said. “It’s not why I’m in this industry.“Obviously, the nature of hiring the most famous pop star in the world, you’re going to have conversations like that.

Florence Pugh is standing by her choice to wear a see-through gown. In the September issue of , the 26-year-old actress claps back at critics of the sheer Valentino gown she wore to the luxury brand's Fall/Winter 2022 Haute Couture runway show in Rome last month.«I was comfortable with my small breasts, and showing them like that — it aggravated [people] that I was comfortable,» she says. «It was just alarming, how perturbed they were.

Gallery: ‘I get less and less sad about it every day’: Celebrities on coping with breakups and divorces (BANG Showbiz)Florence and Zach have worked together on the drama film 'A Good Person', which is due out next year. And in spite of their split, the actress will always have fond memories of working with her ex-boyfriend. She said: "The movie that we made together genuinely was probably one of my most favourite experiences.

Florence Pugh has a message for fans and critics who are only focusing on her sex scenes with Harry Styles in the upcoming movie, "Don’t Worry Darling." "When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it. It’s not why I’m in this industry," Pugh, 26, told Harper’s Bazaar in a recent interview.