Don’t worry, your first glimpse at Harry Styles in Don’t Worry Darling is here
Olivia Wilde shared the teaser for her second directorial film
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If you’d been awaiting a glimpse of Florence Pugh and Harry Styles in Olivia Wilde’s second directorial film Don’t Worry Darling, don’t worry—we now have a teaser. Wilde shared an 11-second teaser of her adaptation of Carey Van Dyke’s published screenplay.
We first see Pugh as Alice, lounging in a pool chair being served cocktails while seeming detached. The teaser then rapidly shows various cuts: Alice and her husband Jack (Styles) engaging in a steamy makeout session; Chris Pine as Frank, standing in the center of a crowd, looking barely recognizable (if you’d told us this is a shot of Daniel Day Lewis from Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, we’d believe you); synchronized swimmers; a drowning Alice; and a chilling shot of Alice with Saran Wrap covering her face.
The film is co-written by the novel’s author Van Dyke alongside his brother Shane Van Dyke (Chernobyl Diaries, The Silence)—and yes, they’re Dick Van Dyke’s grandchildren. Though the original screenplay was published already, the final film version is different, since it received rewrites by Booksmart writer Katie Silberman.
We won’t spoil what happens in the story (based on what’s out there in the original screenplay, anyway) but according to the film’s logline, Pugh plays “a 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community [who] begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.” We’ll just say that Styles’ character is very, very different from his likable persona, and the steamy kissing in the teaser is a red herring. As for the rest of the cast, Nick Kroll, Gemma Chan, Dita Von Teese, Kiki Lane, Kate Berlant, Douglas Smith, and Asif Ali also have roles in the film.
Unfortunately, it’ll be a while until we get to see Don’t Worry Darling, as it arrives on September 23, 2022.
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It seems like it’s pretty rare to tease a movie a year in advance when it’s not well-known tentpole IP. Smaller, adult-oriented, or indie films usually don’t have the Comic-Industrial Complex behind them hyping things up way in advance, so it’s unclear what the intent is in doing so.
Pugh and Styles currently have big-time, parasocial relationship internet cachet. Small images of them will make people go “SHE ATE THAT” or “HARRY IS SERVING 50s GLAM” enough times on the required websites for this mini-teaser to be a worthwhile endeavor.
Hm, I suppose. I guess it’s minimal effort on the production’s part and doesn’t hurt anything. Although the tiny fragment of the Internet (in terms of number of people) who are interacting with this will move on to the next thing in a matter of hours or days, so who knows if it will actually have any lasting impact.
‘ barely unrecognizable ‘He hardly doesn’t look like himself.
I agree, even in the quick cut of the trailer, it was clear it was Pine, although upon pausing I am starting to see the Daniel Day-Lewis resemblance in the shot. But it’s still clearly Chris Pine.
so we can break out the Penis Van Lesbian jokes is what you’re saying