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Everything that happened at the "Don't Worry Darling" premiere

Amy
Sep 6, 2022
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It’s Labor Day, and yet here I am LABORING away during a truly terrible heatwave at 10:08 p.m. because Twitter is ablaze with takes.

For those unfamiliar with the “Don’t Worry Darling”/Olivia Wilde/Harry Styles/Florence Pugh debacle, please first read the last edition of Amy Explains.

“Don’t Worry Darling” premiered today (or yesterday, fuck time zones, I don’t care) at the Venice Film Festival, and here’s everything you need to know about that:

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mon iver 🫡 @waystarroyhoe
chris pine disassociating at a press conference, florence pugh showing up 15 mins late with an aperol spritz, tom cruise clinging to a plane and saying "see you at the movies!", brendan fraser getting a six minute ovation...maybe cinema really is back
3:20 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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This Chris Pine meme

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madeline cho @madshcho
chris pine looks like he just lost the wyoming primary
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7:09 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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The “DWD” cast did a quick press Q&A and this photo of Chris Pine (who I completely forgot was in this movie until now) was maybe the first meme of the day to take off. The hair, the face, the headphones (which I believe they all had to wear for translation purposes) kill me.

Dead serious though, I am BEGGING someone to drop the name of this man’s hair stylist. This balyage is impeccable.

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bethany @fiImgal
somebody get chris pine outta there #Venezia79
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2:13 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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A few more Chris Pine memes

It appears that the full cast of this movie is completely checked out.

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mirrorball 🛋 @tracesofswift
chris pine putting on his sunglasses as the lights cut… oh that man is taking a nap
6:41 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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cat.🦫 @lordeonfilm
chris pine taking photos of florence pugh
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5:03 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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Harry Styles, an actor (allegedly), who can act (allegedly, and knows what acting is (apparently not)

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essie ☾ • ken roy apologist @murdocroy
so this week i’ve learned to never ask lea michele to read anything for me and to never ask harry styles to explain something to me bc what is thisss
5:13 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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ET Canada @ETCanada
#HarryStyles admits he's a novice when it comes to acting etcanada.com/news/925943/ha…
6:38 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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Ms. Flo, queen above all

As reported, Florence Pugh did not do press for the movie, but she did show up for the premiere. Generally it appears that she’s just over this whole situation.

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Nora Dominick @noradominick
this is florence pugh’s MOMENT. we continue to stan, miss flo
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5:10 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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LOTVF @lotsoftvfeels
Not Olivia Wilde saying Florence Pugh couldn’t make the the Don’t Worry Darling press conference because of scheduling conflicts and her literally being in Venice at the same time with this energy 👑🤣 #DontWorryDarling
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fra🍂🫧 | #1 kit connor protector @goldenheartvhes
florence pugh avoiding the conference and its drama at the venice film festival and enjoying a spritz. this is what i call iconic behaviour, no one is doing it like her https://t.co/G7iPdXp45N
1:15 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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mattie kahn @mattiekahn
Florence Pugh, quiet quitting icon
3:26 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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Trina Watters @trinawatters
whoever made this seating arrangement has planned a wedding with divorced parents #DontWorryDarling #OliviaWilde #HarryStyles #FlorencePugh #Venice79
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6:32 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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I’ll also note that there were several rumors swirling around Pugh and the audience’s standing ovation at the end of the premiere. “DWD” received a four minute standing ovation (Which isn’t actually that long at the Venice Film Festival, it’s common for standing ovations to last upwards of like 10 minutes. Which I’ll make another side note: Long standing ovations are so stupid!!! Like what do you do for that time?? Just stand around and smile? Don’t people’s hands get tired?? We get it, you liked the movie, or at least are pretending it is. Let’s get a move on people!) Allegedly the ovation could have lasted longer, but Pugh actually started to exit the theater around the four minute mark, and the rest of the cast followed. Why did she choose to leave? Maybe she also thinks long ovations are stupid, idk.

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may²⁸ @stylinarts
florence pugh leaving the premiere early during the standing ovation isn’t her being unprofessional, it’s her making a STATEMENT
8:35 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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Ramin Setoodeh @RaminSetoodeh
Florence Pugh refuses to make eye contact with Olivia Wilde during the 4-minute #Venezia79 standing ovation for #DontWorryDarling.
7:52 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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The reviews are out

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The Hollywood Handle 🔜 #TIFF22 @The_HollywoodH
‘DONT WORRY DARLING’ opens with 60% at Rotten Tomatoes 🍅
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8:13 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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Critics seem to be pretty lukewarm on the movie overall. L.A. Times film critic Justin Chang called it, “a disappointingly heavy thud of a movie.”

The spit take

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JZMaclin @Mac70J
#HarryStyles appears to spit on Chris Pine i won't sleep until i know the truth
1:15 AM ∙ Sep 6, 2022
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THIS is the big one. This is our white/gold dress, our laurel/yanny, our “Is Leonardo DiCaprio breaking up with his girlfriends when they turn 25, or are these women breaking up with Leonardo DiCaprio because their brains finish fully developing at 25 and they suddenly realize they want nothing to do with him?”

Did. Harry. Styles. SPIT. on. Chris. Pine? Watch the video. It really looks like he did, but the bigger question might be: Why??? I hypothesize that he did indeed spit, but it was an accident, which I base on his general nonchalance and also that Harry Styles seems smart enough to not spit on a human being in public at a movie premiere. But it’s open for interpretation I guess.

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