Olivia Wilde said in a new interview with The Cut that a “screaming match” never took place on the set of “Don’t Worry Darling,” nor was she “not available on set” as highly-publicized rumors suggested at the time. Wilde’s 2022 psychological thriller, headlined by Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, descended into tabloid chaos amid rampant speculation over an apparent feud between Pugh and Wilde, plus the romance between Wilde and Styles that allegedly originated during production.
Vulture reported just ahead of the film’s theatrical rollout in Sept. 2022 that a “blowout argument” between Pugh and Wilde occurred about three-quarters of the way through production on “Don’t Worry Darling.” Pugh had allegedly grown “fed up with the director’s frequent unexplained absences,” citing that Wilde and Styles would disappear together from the set amid their burgeoning romance. Pugh allegedly made contact with New Line Cinema’s then-chairman Toby Emmerich to ensure that she would not have to “participate in the film’s life cycle in any way.”
“I’ve never had a screaming match on my set. I was never not available on set. I wanted to be like, ‘None of this is true,’” Wilde now told The Cut, noting that the studio and others involved in the movie demanded she stay quiet on all the alleged drama. “I was told, ‘Don’t say a fucking word. Just go out there and smile.’ I resent that, but it taught me it’s not the way I want to handle things.”
