Olivia Wilde dodges query about feud with Do not Fear Darling star Florence Pugh: ‘The web feeds itself’

Olivia Wilde is not commenting on alleged tensions between her and Florence Pugh, the lead of her film Do not Fear Darling.

When requested at a Venice press convention whether or not Wilde can “clear the air” in regards to the rumours surrounding their strained relationship, the director stated: “Florence is a drive. We’re so grateful she’s capable of make it tonight [for the red carpet]. I am grateful to her, and to [Dune director Denis Villeneuve] for serving to us. I am unable to say how honoured I’m to have her as our lead.

“As for all of the infinite tabloid gossip on the market, the Web feeds itself. I do not really feel the necessity to contribute; I believe it is sufficiently self-nourished,” stated Wilde.

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It emerged on Sunday when the pageant launched its confirmed attendees listing that Pugh wouldn’t be on the press convention.

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The pageant stated that the actor’s flight to Venice from Budapest, Hungary — the place she is at present on the set of the Dune sequel — was arriving solely after the press convention, giving her time to stroll the crimson carpet, however to not converse to media.

When one other journalist then tried to ask about Shia LaBeouf’s allegations that he wasn’t fired from the film, as Wilde prompt in an explosive cowl story with Selection, the press convention moderator – who’s a senior programmer for the pageant – successfully blocked the query, claiming it had already been answered by Wilde as a part of the earlier query on Pugh, and rapidly moved on.

Wilde was joined on the Monday afternoon press convention by her forged members Harry Kinds, Gemma Chan and Chris Pine.

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Do not Fear Darling is Wilde’s second film following on from her directorial debut, Booksmart.

The thriller is centred on Jack (Harry Kinds) and Alice (Pugh), whose seemingly glad marriage in a heightened model of Sixties suburbia turns into more and more strained when Alice begins having scary visions.

When the venture was first introduced in 2019, it sparked a heated bidding conflict, with 18 studios and streaming companies preventing to land the pitch. New Line Cinema in the end received the public sale.

The film, which has its world premiere in Venice on Monday night however screened for press within the morning, rests on a gripping efficiency from Pugh, whose descent into insanity as Alice anchors the film — a incontrovertible fact that additional highlights her absence from the press convention.

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The on-set politics of the Do not Fear Darling manufacturing have come beneath intense scrutiny in latest weeks following Wilde’s cowl story interview with Selection.

The director prompt that she had fired actor Shia LaBeouf from the set on account of his “combative power.” LaBeouf later asserted that he selected to go away the manufacturing as a result of he did not really feel the actors got enough time to rehearse. In a video of Wilde shared by LaBeouf, the director additionally alluded to tensions between LaBeouf and Pugh.

A strained relationship between Wilde and Pugh has been the topic of rumours for a couple of months now.

Whereas the trade baselessly pitting girls in opposition to each other is hardly new, Pugh’s unorthodox absence from the press convention suggests there might have been some form of difficulty at play.

The transfer is particularly conspicuous given Timothée Chalamet, the primary lead of the Dune franchise, got here to Venice to advertise his Warner Bros. film Bones and All and converse to media regardless of being on the identical manufacturing as Pugh.

Wilde attended a Selection social gathering on Sunday evening celebrating her August cowl story. Different attendees of the social gathering included Warner Bros. Photos Group co-chairpersons Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, in addition to New Line’s president of manufacturing Richard Brenner.

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