{"id":560778,"date":"2026-07-21T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:10:14","slug":"olivia-wilde-addresses-fallout-from-harry-styles-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560778\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Wilde addresses fallout from Harry Styles romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olivia Wilde has said the media furore around her film Don’t Worry Darling and her relationship with her co-star Harry Styles “hurt” the success of the project.<\/p>\n

The actress, 42, directed the thriller, which she appeared in alongside Styles and Black Widow star Florence Pugh in 2022.<\/p>\n

The film was plagued by rumours of conflict between Wilde and Pugh, as well as the fact that Styles replaced actor Shia LaBeouf, who was originally cast in the project.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Wilde was dealing with a public split from her ex-husband Jason Sudeikis and intense interest in her relationship with Styles.<\/p>\n

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\nOlivia Wilde, Sydney Chandler and Harry Styles attend the Don’t Worry Darling red carpet in 2022<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Wilde said the drama surrounding her and her co-stars “did hurt the film” because “we didn\u2019t get to have the conversations about what the film was trying to say which was a shame because so many people worked so hard to make that film in the depths of Covid.”<\/p>\n

She added: “It hurt me for sure, because I was so naive up until that point about the grinder, the garbage disposal that the internet can be.<\/p>\n

“So, at this point, I have enough of a perspective on it, and that allows me to experience it as a fascinating time.<\/p>\n

“It is interesting to witness a tornado from the inside.<\/p>\n

“But now I look back and I think, ‘oh, the people were being given headlines without context, and it\u2019s a natural instinct to start trying to fill those in\u2019.”<\/p>\n

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\nOlivia Wilde says the off-screen headlines over her romance with Harry Styles overshadowed Don’t Worry Darling<\/p>\n

Wilde and Sudeikis were in a relationship from 2011 to 2020 and share two children.<\/p>\n

She began dating Styles after they met during filming of Don\u2019t Worry Darling. Their relationship ended in November 2022.<\/p>\n

Olivia, whose latest directorial effort The Invite is currently in cinemas, added: “It\u2019s interesting because this is my first time back into the press cycle since then and I did wonder, \u2018would this feel quite traumatising?”<\/p>\n

However, the filmmaker said the conversations she has been having about her latest project have been “so wonderfully interesting to me”, and added it has “been actually kind of healing because I understand that it\u2019s not always a garbage disposal”.<\/p>\n

The Invite stars Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton as two couples who have a dinner party which spirals into unexpected places.<\/p>\n

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