Florence Pugh will skip another Don’t Worry Darling event, this time in New York
Miss Flo will not be taking any Don't Worry Darling related questions now, thank you
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Florence Pugh came to the Venice Film Festival to look stunning, walk the red carpet, stir the pot a little, and leave before the end of the film’s standing ovation. And she did it flawlessly. Now, it seems the Don’t Worry Darling star does not intend on attending any further press moments for the film, as it’s been confirmed she will skip out on its New York City premiere and Q&A on September 19.
“From what I understand, there is friction, but I don’t know why,” one source tells Rolling Stone on the issue. “It’s pretty clear she’s choosing not to be a part of the PR. It’s clearly not beneficial to Olivia to not have her be a part of the PR. It has to be a Florence decision.”
Ahead of the film’s theatrical debut on September 23, New York City’s AMC Lincoln Square Imax Theatre will host a Q&A with director Olivia Wilde and stars Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, Sydney Chandler, Kate Berlant, Asif Ali, and Douglas Smith. The event will be live-streamed to over 100 Imax theaters across North America.
The official reason given for Pugh’s absence is that she’ll be busy filming Dune: Part Two for Denis Villeneuve. Fair enough; this writer would also not push to attend an event for a movie with this much drama when she could stay in Budapest and film Dune: Part Two with Timothée Chalamet.
Over the weekend, Pugh showed up at Venice Film Festival just in time for the film’s screening, and not for the press conference beforehand. Fueling the rumors around a rift between her and film director Olivia Wilde, the two kept their distance from one another on the red carpet and during the screening, with Pugh bolting to the first plane out of Venice. However, this did not stop Wilde from having plenty of nice things to say about her star.
“Florence is a force,” Wilde said in Venice. “We are so grateful she’s able to make it tonight [for the red carpet] despite being in production on Dune. I know, as a director, how disruptive it is to lose an actor even for a day, so I’m very grateful to her, and to Denis Villeneuve for helping us. And we’ll get to celebrate her work tonight. I can’t say how honored I am to have her as our lead. She’s amazing. As for all the endless tabloid gossip and all the noise out there, the Internet feeds itself. I don’t feel the need to contribute; I think it’s sufficiently well-nourished.”
Even before Don’t Worry Darling’s world debut, Pugh did not seem too thrilled about answering questions related to the film, especially when it came to the sex scenes between her and co-star Styles. It seems no matter what, Pugh’s going to come out of this press cycle on top, as her performance in Don’t Worry Darling has received raving reviews amongst heavy criticisms of Wilde’s direction.
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“It has to be a Florence decision.”
The US Supreme Court just called. They’re not comfortable with 26 year old females making decisions not related to makeup.
It has to be a Flodec.
“Miss Flo will not be taking any Don’t Worry Darling related questions now, thank you”As you have pointed out in EVERY. FUCKING. ARTICLE. That you post about this god-forsaken movie.
“the two kept their distance from one another on the red carpet and during the screening”
Yes, weren’t we all surprised when Flo didn’t sit on Liv’s lap for the screening?
At this point AVClub is just trolling, n’est pas?
She’s playing Irulan in Dune. Either that role has been greatly expanded, or Villaneuve demands more takes than Fincher.
Given Warner Bros Discovery’s recent penny pinching, the studio probably has Pugh working craft services too.
More content for “Cooking with Flo”!
She can serve up some nice spotted dick.“See, Olivia: that’s how you make spotted dick. Not by giving Harry Styles herpes.”
Maybe she’s got a crush on Jason Sudeikis, and think Olivia Wilde done him wrong…?
Given how much they expanded Chani’s appearance I imagine Irulan will get a lot more to do as well. Probably sitting at home doing a fangirl podcast about Paul.
I think that’s just an official cover for her absence. It undoubtedly helps that Warner brothers handle both dune and don’t worry darling.
What part of “the only promotion of the film she will do is at the Venice Film Festival” is too difficult to understand?
FlorPu makes her own publicity
I’ve been thinking she’s overdue for her name to be condensed into an initial/nickname/J-Lo-y thing.
I came up with “Flo-P”. Your’s is better.
I wanted it to match her Marvel movie sister ScarJo
Well, she’s certainly getting headlines for this little Stepford Wivesish film. But if she starts stepping out with Jason Sudeikis, the entire entertainment press corp might have a collective spontaneous combustion.
Exactly what I thought!
She likes the film she doesn’t want to see it too many times for fear it might lose its unique magic.
ACTING!
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the AV Club editorial meeting where you came up with “Miss Flo”!
“Where the FUCK is Pugh with my Lithobid?! She was supposed to be here an hour ago!” – Olivia Wilde.
The hand in the photo at the top of the article…WHERE IS IT COMING FROM?
For as many people I saw who thought that The Slap was a scripted event to drive Oscar viewership up, I’m surprised so many people buy wholesale into this supposed feud.
Sort of like the “rivalry” between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, or between Jack Benny and Fred Allen?
I’ve always wondered about these kinds of theories – that it’s all made up for publicity. Would an actor (or their publicist) really agree to go along with a fake feud that makes them/their client look bad?
I think it’s usually just people trying to appear more savvy than the system that usually generates a theory that something is being done for publicity. Most of them definitely do more damage to reputations than any equivalent amount of buzz they might create. But in this particular case, the rumor mill has been running full speed for weeks about this movie and its principal players. Wilde has been taking a real beating, and there’s really nothing she can do to stop it. Her best option is to ignore it and wait it out, which she’s done. But given the fact that public opinion probably won’t turn against Pugh no matter what, it’s better publicity for the movie for her to stay away than it would be for her to do all the normal press stuff. As evidenced by the forty different articles published about it here this past month.
Basically, it’s not that these people ginned this whole thing up to start a controversy over their film, but rather that the Internet did what the Internet does, and the best salvage operation involved leaning into the idea that Pugh and Wilde are mortal enemies for some extremely silly and inconsequential reason.
Pugh stink about Harry’s style makes Chris pine and Olivia wild!
Wow—with that gift for language, you may have a career in movie publicity!
Maybe the Miss Flo thing isn’t yours to use? Since it was clearly a term of derision from Wilde? Unless you just want to be hateful cunts