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It is no wonder that several of the actors do not get along with each other due to a difference in their working styles.Midsommar(2019) actress Florence Pugh is no different for having trouble adapting to Shia LaBeouf’s working style which resulted in him getting kicked out of the film by director Olivia Wilde. The role was later replaced by Harry Styles in Olivia Wilde’sDon’t Worry Darling.
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Olivia Wilde’s “No A**Holes policy”
Before the casting of Florence Pugh and Shia LaBeouf as the lead actors inDon’t Worry Darling, it was actuallyOlivia Wildewho was cast as the heroine. Feeling that a younger cast was required for the movie, she later opted out and castFlorence Pughin her stead andShia LaBeoufas the lead actor. Olivia Wilde later decided to kick theTransformershero due to his improper working method which had a lot of collateral damage to his co-stars.
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Originally reporting it as a“scheduling conflict”the director tried to remove Shia LaBeouf quietly before sources close toVarietyblurted out a different tale. Stating the actor’s method to be uncomfortable for the director as well as the crew, the source also reported poor behavior on Shia LaBeouf’s part. The actor was later replaced 3 months after by none other than the English singer-songwriter,Harry Styles.
Speaking in an interview after firing Shia LaBeouf, here’s what the director had to say,
“A lot came to light after this happened that really troubled me, in terms of his behavior. For our film, what we really needed was an energy that was incredibly supportive. Particularly with a movie like this, I knew that I was going to be asking Florence to be in very vulnerable situations, and my priority was making her feel safe and making her feel supported.”
Florence Pugh, who found fame by playing Yelena Belova in the MCU, later stated that people were more interested in the sex scenes featured in the movie rather than the story and the“why”of the movie.
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After his firing fromDon’t Worry Darling,singer, and actress FKA Twigs, who had dated LaBeouf for a year filed a lawsuit against her former partner which included crimes like sexual abuse, strangulation, and giving the singer an STD knowingly. The director of the film Olivia Wilde publicly supported FKA Twigs’ behavior which only confirms the problems with the actor’s behavior.
Don’t Worry Darlingfeatures Harry Styles and Florence Pugh as the lead actors in which Pugh will play the role of Alice, a housewife who grows suspicious of his husband Jack’s behavior in 1950’s Victory, California. The film is slated for a release date on 23rd September 2022.
Source: IndieWire
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
