Chris Pine is finally breaking his silence on all that Don’t Worry Darling drama.
The 42-year-old actor spoke about the DWD rumors and speculations at length in a new interview for his Esquire cover story. In the interview, he shared his side of things with regard to the movie, which he co-starred in with Harry Styles and Florence Pugh, as well as the headlines that came out about it.
He commented on the memes made out of his facial expressions from the Venice Film Festival:
“All the memes I saw about my face in Venice made me f*cking laugh. Sometimes the question’s not that interesting. and you just f*cking zone out, and you’re looking at a ceiling because it’s really pretty.”
Chris addressed whether there was drama on set during filming:
“If there was drama, there was drama. I absolutely didn’t know about it, nor really would I have cared. If I feel badly, it’s because the vitriol that the movie got was absolutely out of proportion with what was onscreen.”
He also touched on if there was tension in Venice among the cast:
“Venice was normal things getting swept up in a narrative that people wanted to make, compounded by the metastasizing that can happen in the Twittersphere. It was ridiculous.”
The actor then shared what he thinks of Harry, Florence, and Olivia Wilde, who directed the movie and also featured in a lot of the headlines and rumors surrounding it. He spoke well of Olivia, called Harry “a sweet guy” and said he loves Florence “to f-cking death.”
And as for that viral rumor of Harry allegedly spitting on Chris at Venice, aka spit gate, Chris had this to say:
“Harry did not spit on me. Harry is a very kind guy. I was on the plane with my publicist…sleeping, having a great time on the plane. And she wakes me up and she says, we have to craft a message about what happened in Venice…She showed me the thing.”
He explained that Harry spoke to him, not spat on him, and what he said referred to how press conferences can be challenging particularly when you are tired from traveling:’
“I think what he said…he leaned down and I think he said, ‘It’s just words, isn’t it.’ We’re all jet-lagged. Sometimes you’re doing these press things, you’re brain goes, befuddled.”
Chris added they had a joke between them about how because of the exhaustion, everything is “just words.”
