Florence Pugh Said She Was ‘Totally In Love’ With Olivia Wilde In 2019
Florence Pugh attends the "Don't Worry Darling" red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 05, 2022 in Venice, Italy. Actress Olivia Wilde attends the "Don't Worry Darling/ No Te Preocupes Querida" photocall during the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival at the Kursaal Palace on September 17, 2022 in San Sebastian, Spain.
Florence Pugh and Olivia Wilde weren’t always at odds. A resurfaced video from November 2019 has shown just how much Pugh admired the Don’t Worry Darling director as she spoke about her work. In Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, Florence and Beanie Feldstein sat down together to discuss their careers, with Beanie having just starred in Olivia’s directorial debut, Booksmart. Florence, 26, asked, “What was it like to work with Olivia Wilde? Because I am totally in love with her.”
Feldstein, 29, was convinced that the two women would get along. She said, “I think you and Olivia would be like, you’d be so drawn to each other because she’s just as fearless as you are in her work onscreen and offscreen.” Florence replied, “I can tell.”
The Lady Bird actress continued to praise Wilde, 38, as a director adding, “Olivia is a remarkable director, she’s so fresh and energetic and I just believed in her so much that I was really intimidated by my [Booksmart] character. I think she’s really tough.”
TikTok took the clip and resurfaced it following all the drama concerning the Don’t Worry Darling cast.
“Never meet your heroes,” wrote one person. Another wrote, “how they’re using Florence as a scapegoat makes me sick, she was so excited for this project.”
“Well this certainly did not age well,” commented another, while someone said, “This is so sad. I hope they didn’t fall out over essentially boy drama but I think there’s more to it than that.”
Meanwhile, Don’t Worry Darling had a second premiere in New York on Monday (September 19), which Florence did not attend, and neither did her co-star Chris Pine. Both cited other filming commitments for their absence, with Florence currently working on Dune: Part Two in Budapest, and Pine shooting a project in Los Angeles.
Don't Worry Darling New York Premiere
Don’t Worry Darling had another premiere, this time on the east coast. The cast — noticeably minus stars Florence Pugh and Chris Pine — went to New York Monday (September 19) night ahead of its Friday premiere. Director and star Olivia Wilde, as well as actors Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, Sydney Chandler, Kate Berlant, Asif Ali, Douglas Smith and Dita Von Teese appeared at AMC Lincoln Square 13.
Due to scheduling conflicts, Pugh, 26, couldn’t be there. She has been in Budapest, working on director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. Meanwhile, Pine, 42, has two films in post-production: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Poolman.
The entire cast was present when Don’t Worry Darling was screened at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month. However, Pugh was not part of a press conference or photo call beforehand, and Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh weren’t photographed together s on the red carpet.
See photos from the New York premiere of Don’t Worry Darling below:
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