Olivia Wilde and Shia LaBeouf ‘Never Saw Eye to Eye’ Before ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Drama
usmagazine.comOn different pages. Olivia Wilde and Shia LaBeouf have differing accounts of how their Don’t Worry Darling experience went down, which was the tipping point of their dramatic feud, but their relationship was strained from the start.“Olivia and Shia just never saw eye to eye,” a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “She felt he was a loose cannon and he thought she was on an ego trip.”The Even Stevens alum, 36, was initially cast as Jack in Wilde’s upcoming Don’t Worry Darling, which debuts in theaters this fall.
However, news broke in September 2020 that the Booksmart director, 38, had replaced LaBeouf with Harry Styles.“I say this as someone who is such an admirer of his work. [Shia’s] process was not conducive to the ethos that I demand in my productions,” Wilde — who began dating the 28-year-old former One Direction singer shortly after connecting on the Don’t Worry Darling set — alleged in a Variety profile earlier this month. “He has a process that, in some ways, seems to require a combative energy, and I don’t personally believe that is conducive to the best performances.
I believe that creating a safe, trusting environment is the best way to get people to do their best work. Ultimately, my responsibility is to the production and to the cast to protect them.
That was my job.”The House alum, who serves as the director and a producer on the thriller, previously backed up her decision to replace LaBeouf.“Someone, who’s a very established actor and director in this industry, gave me really terrible advice that was helpful, because I just knew I had to do the opposite,” Wilde told Emerald Fennell during Variety‘s “Directors on Directors” series in February 2021. “They said, ‘Listen, the way to get
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