![]() While Wilde tries and fails to save both her film’s and her own reputation, Pugh continues to enjoy an Aperol spritz on the quote-unquote “set of Dune.” I think we know who’s better If your female lead doesn’t even want to promote your movie about female pleasure, what does that say? Especially when she is far and away the best part of this vexing, atonal, plot hole-filled film? ![]() It’s comical, really, how bad of a job Wilde has done at pulling her film out from the muck and mud it’s crawled through. She’s actually looking in a mirror and telling herself to piss off. For Wilde to point out-correctly!-that, in Don’t Worry Darling, men go down on women as a way to manipulate them into ignorant submission isn’t her flipping the bird at audiences and critics. The irony is that Wilde herself is the one who wouldn’t stop talking up the sex and how uniquely female-focused it was. The sheer irony that Wilde refers to in Elle isn’t about how the interest in film’s portrayal of sex doesn’t comport with sex’s function in the film. Cut to: Wilde leaning into the idea that the movie was titillating…but in a feminist way. The cast and crew of Don’t Worry Darling, Pugh said, were “bigger and better than” the conversation around how titillating the movie was or wasn’t going to be. It’s not why I’m in this industry,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in August, a cover story released a mere two weeks before Variety published its interview with Wilde. “When reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it. But all that Pugh said about Don’t Worry Darling’s sex scenes was that it wasn’t worth discussing them. Save for Florence “Miss Flo” Pugh, that is, as the director notes. Wilde was the only person involved with the movie to speak about its sex in these ways-or, really, at all. And then there was an Associated Press interview in September, in which she suggested she wanted more of the oral sex scene shown in the film’s provocative teaser-but was stopped due to “puritanical” studio practices. Then, in an August 2022 Variety interview, Wilde explained that the sex scenes were “integral to the story itself.” “It’s all about immediacy and extreme passion for one another,” she said about the film’s very horny main characters. Back in December 2021, when all we had was a fairly compelling 11-second teaser to go off, Wilde told Vogue that her mission was for filmgoers to “realize how rarely they see female hunger, and specifically this type of female pleasure.” The only logical response to this is: Wait, what? The person talking the most about Don’t Worry Darling’s decidedly unsexy sex scenes was Wilde herself, in several pre-premiere interviews. Where Wilde goes off the rails is in her next comments, presented here in full: This is well and good I’m a big fan of female pleasure. She goes on to compliment her boyfriend Styles’ new movie My Policeman for getting sex right as a queer film, it is inherently better at showing realistic pleasure. “I was interested in acknowledging female pleasure that doesn’t come from penetration,” she says first, by way of explaining why the only sex we see is oral sex, performed on a woman (Florence Pugh) by a man (Harry Styles). ( Don’t Worry Darling is sitting at a cool 38-percent “rotten” on Rotten Tomatoes.) The culprit for much of the film’s poor reception? Everyone’s fixation on its sex scenes. This time, she’s reckoning with the criticism, of which there was a lot. In a new Elle magazine feature, published nearly two months after the film’s disastrous Venice Film Festival premiere, Wilde spews some peak B.S. Unfortunately, its director carries much of the blame for that tasty, reputation-killing gossip-and she just won’t stop making it worse. Don’t Worry Darling is known better for its incredibly messy, incredibly delectable behind-the-scenes drama than the awful film that came out of it. ![]() Olivia Wilde is very skilled at two things: highlighting her excellent cheekbones and digging her second feature film’s grave herself. ![]()
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