Even the biggest feuds can start from a place of friendship. The internet has rediscovered a clip of Florence Pugh gushing over Olivia Wilde years before the Don’t Worry Darling chaos.

From the confusing departure of Shia LaBeouf from the cast to ‘Spitgate’ to Wilde and Pugh’s alleged fallout, the new film has been plagued by wild rumours and uncomfortable interactions. If you fancy some added gossip about it all, this old TikTok clip might help.

Three years before they worked together on Don’t Worry Darling, Pugh revealed her love of Wilde. The moment came during Variety‘s Actors on Actors interview special in 2019. “What was it like to work with Olivia Wilde? Because I am totally in love with her,” Pugh said to Beanie Feldstein back then.

“I think you and Olivia would be so drawn to each other,” Feldstein prophetically replied. “Because she is just as fearless as you are in her own, on-screen and off.”

She wasn’t wrong. Wilde was coming off the back of the successful buddy comedy Booksmart that year (which starred Feldstein), so it’s believable that Pugh really did want to work with her. One year later, she was cast in Don’t Worry Darling opposite Harry Styles.

According to Page Six, the rift between the pair started due to Pugh’s allegiance to Wilde’s then-partner Jason Sudeikis (she actually almost had a brief cameo in Ted Lasso).

“I can tell you for a fact that Flo seeing Olivia and Harry all over each other on set did not go down well as Olivia was still with Jason (Sudeikis) when she first hooked up with Harry,” a source told the publication.

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Not that you’d know it from their recent public comments. “Florence is a force. We are so grateful she’s able to make it tonight [for the red carpet] despite being in production on ‘Dune,’” Wilde said when asked about the alleged fallout at the Venice Film Festival.

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