Olivia Wilde recently made statements on sex in Don’t Worry Darling that don’t take into account her own role in the movie’s press.

Olivia Wilde recently made some contradictory statements when speaking to Elle about sex and the conversation of sex in and around her movie Don’t Worry Darling. Backtracking her previous championing of sex in the film, Wilde plays confused about why sex is dominating the conversation when it comes to the film. She approaches the topic through the lens of Florence Pugh’s comments, backing the actress’s words.

“It’s interesting because Florence very wisely pointed out that a lot of attention has been given to the sex scenes. And I think she’s so right. I completely agree with her that it’s overshadowing everything else that the movie’s about, which is so interestingly ironic because one of the uses of sex in Victory is as a tool of distraction.”

“When Florence pointed that out that this film is so much bigger and better than just the sex scenes, I was so happy that she said that because I feel the same way,” Wilde concluded.

““It’s interesting because Florence very wisely pointed out that a lot of attention has been given to the sex scenes…I completely agree with her that it’s overshadowing everything else that the movie’s about.””

Earlier this year, during the films pre-release press cycle, Wilde explicitly talked about how she had to “fight” for sex acts to be included in the film’s marketing. The sentiments she expresses resound true

“When asked if it was a ‘fight’ to include the sex acts in the trailer, she replied: ‘Oh, yeah. There’s a lot that had to be taken out of the trailer. The MPA came down hard on me and the trailer at the last second and I had to cut some shots, which I was upset about because I thought they took it up another notch.”

‘But of course we still live in a really puritanical society. I do think the lack of eroticism in American film is kind of new. Then when it comes to female pleasure, it’s something that we just don’t see very often unless you’re talking about queer cinema.

‘It’s interesting because in a lot of queer films, the female characters are allowed to have more pleasure. Audiences aren’t as puritanical as corporations think they are. And yet people get upset. I mean, people are upset with me already over this. I think it’s a testament to the film.’

‘We want to be provocative. The idea is not to make you feel safe,’ she added to Associated Press.

“Come now variety, you know very well that olivia wilde led the PR campaign on this film with sex. She did that herself and florence pugh called her out for doing it.”

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