Don't worry Darling looks interesting

Fans had noticed apparent tension between Pugh and Wilde early on, particularly as Pugh has barely promoted the film on her personal social media, and the two women have disagreed on the film's marketing choices.

With much of the attention in the film's publicity focusing on a steamy sex scene between Styles and Pugh, Wilde told Vogue that she wanted the audience to “realize how rarely they see female hunger, and specifically this type of female pleasure.”

But Pugh felt differently, telling Harper's Bazaar, “When it’s 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. It’s not why I’m in this industry."

And all the back-and-forth has finally culminated in reports Friday that Pugh will not be doing any additional press for Don't Worry Darling outside of the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5.

LaBeouf and Wilde are also embroiled in a back-and-forth of their own, with LaBeouf releasing private emails, videos, and texts between him and Wilde to counter her claims that she fired him from the movie to "protect the cast" from his "combative energy."

LaBeouf then told Variety that he quit because the actors were not given enough rehearsal time.

“You and I both know the reasons for my exit,” LaBeouf wrote to Wilde in an email he shared with Variety. “I quit your film because your actors and I couldn’t find time to rehearse.”

LaBeouf also shared a video with Variety that Wilde allegedly sent him in 2020, in which she appears to refer to tensions between LaBeouf and Pugh and suggests that the two stars should "make peace" with each other.

Wilde has also addressed accusations of a pay disparity between Pugh and Styles, and it was rumored that her romantic relationship with Styles contributed to Pugh's unhappiness on set and her apparent feud with the director. Wilde faced backlash online from some who questioned Styles's lack of acting experience.

Don't Worry Darling has also been intertwined with other events in Wilde's personal life; she was served custody papers from her ex-husband Jason Sudeikis while promoting the film onstage. Sudeikis appeared in Wilde's first directorial debut, Booksmart.

A representative for Sudeikis previously said that he had “had no prior knowledge of the time or place that the envelope would have been delivered" and that "he would never condone her being served in such an inappropriate manner.”  

Incredibly, Chris Pine has somehow managed to steer clear of the spectacle.