Have the headlines, memes and receipts been dominating your tabs? As the film gets set to premiere at Venice, here’s a quick summary to catch you up
Michael, I can’t open a tab without being assaulted by one or a variety of the following names: Florence Pugh. Olivia Wilde. Shia LaBeouf. Harry Styles. I don’t know where to start with this story. What’s going on?
Steph, welcome to your crash course in the film they are (or were) all starring in, which, for a movie called Don’t Worry Darling, has actually involved a significant quantity of worrying.
Directed by Olivia Wilde (of Booksmart and breaking-up-with-her-fiance-to-date-Harry-Styles fame), it has courted a great deal of controversy over the past few months, but let’s begin with the most recent turn of events: Don’t Worry Darling has its world premiere on Monday at the Venice film festival, but Florence Pugh, who co-stars alongside Styles, will not be appearing at a prescreening press conference.
