Olivia Wilde continues to set the record straight on those rumors that there was drama on the Don’t Worry Darling set.
“I have never had a screaming match on my set. I was never not available on set,” Wilde, 42, told The Cut in a profile published on Wednesday, June 24, addressing the headlines surrounding the 2022 film. “I wanted to be like, ‘None of this is true.’”
Leading up to Don’t Worry Darling’s premiere, there was widespread speculation that Wilde had drama with the film’s star Florence Pugh. Wilde directed and starred in the film alongside Pugh, 30, and Harry Styles, who Wilde began dating during production. Several headlines alleged that there was tension on set because of their romance.
Wilde and Styles, 32, split in November 2022 after nearly two years together. She called their romance a “loving and wonderful and joyful” experience during Wednesday’s interview.
Wilde further explained that she was advised to ignore all the rumors surrounding the film and her love life.
“I was told, ‘Don’t say a f***ing word. Just go out there and smile,’” she recalled. “I resent that, but it taught me it’s not the way I want to handle things.”
Looking back at the situation as a whole, Wilde told the publication that Hollywood “has robbed me of my naïveté for sure.”
“I deeply hate the feeling of being misunderstood, too,” Wilde added, recalling a conversation she had with Jennifer Garner when they worked together on the 2011 movie Butter.
“She said it’s like you get cast in a soap opera by the public,” Wilde explained. “And they assign you an obvious archetype: the damsel in distress, the good girl, the pretty girl.”
Initially, Wilde said she was “an object of desire” in the public eye, but she thinks the Don’t Worry Darling rumors changed that.
“I became the full-on villain,” she said. “Like Cruella.”
Wilde appeared on an episode of “Call Her Daddy” earlier this month, explaining that she felt similarly about the response to her dating Styles.
“It really did upset people. It was crazy,” she said during the June 17 podcast episode. “I don’t know how much I understand it yet.”
Wilde continued, “I know that it has existed for a long time in our society, like, I understand it had very little to do with me. It is something that we have to women for a long time. Why is it? I don’t know. People were f***ing pissed.”
