


VENICE, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 05: (L-R) Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan and Florence Pugh attend the Campari Passion For Film 2022 Award during the 79th Venice International Film Festival on Augin Venice, Italy. “Wilde is being attacked online, pitted against other women, criticized for dating the super popular star of her own movie, and altogether held to a different standard than her male peers, many of whom did all the same things she’s done, right?” Belloni wrote.

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As if the PR struggles for Wilde couldn’t get worse, all hell broke loose at “Don’t Worry Darling’s” gala premiere at the Venice Film Festival, with Styles’ and Chris Pine’s “#SpitGate,” among other mini-scandals.Ī film industry insider told Page Six that Wilde’s fledging director’s career could be hurt by “credibility problems going forward.” Another industry expert, Matthew Belloni, from the newsletter The Puck, also lamented that Wilde, an exciting new filmmaker, “had suddenly turned the press for her own movie into a snakepit of tabloid headlines and social media bile.”īelloni and others question whether all these headlines are necessarily Wilde’s fault, and whether sexism is at the root of some of them. Olivia Wilde isn’t the first Hollywood director to start a romance with the star of their new film, but she’s a woman in a still male-dominated industry, and her new boyfriend, Harry Styles, the male lead of her sophomore project, “Don’t Worry Darling,” is one of the most desirable pop stars in the world.Īs had been widely reported, Wilde’s movie has been plagued by off-screen drama involving Wilde’s ex-fiancé, Jason Sudeikis, her leading lady, Florence Pugh, and troubled actor Shia LaBeouf.
