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In yet another controversy for the already rumour-plagued film, a viral video shared across social media appeared to show the singer-turned-actor spitting ...

So I am sorry to say harry styles did not spit on him.— priscilla (@cinemazietgeist) [Singer-turned-actor Harry Styles](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/120245050/the-liberation-of-harry-styles) landed himself in hot water after a viral video appeared to show him spitting on his co-star Chris Pine. [Harry Styles lights up 2020 by joining Olivia Wilde's thriller Don't Worry Darling](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/bravo/news/122759820/harry-styles-lights-up-2020-by-joining-olivia-wildes-thriller-dont-worry-darling?rm=a) [See Harry Styles and Florence Pugh's steamy makeout session in Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/bravo/news/126370952/see-harry-styles-and-florence-pughs-steamy-makeout-session-in-olivia-wildes-dont-worry-darling?rm=a) [Harry Styles and Florence Pugh turn up the heat in Don't Worry Darling trailer](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/bravo/news/128525119/harry-styles-and-florence-pugh-turn-up-the-heat-in-nsfw-dont-worry-darling-trailer?rm=a) *

Chris Pine's representative has described a now viral video - which some Twitter users say appears to show Harry Styles spitting on the Hollywood actor - as ...

there is nothing but respect between these two men," the representative told Sky News' US affiliate E! "People are seeing some odd illusion of sorts online that is clearly deceiving... [Styles](https://news.sky.com/topic/harry-styles-6773) taking his seat next to co-star Chris Pine at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Don't Worry Darling - directed by [Olivia Wilde](https://news.sky.com/topic/olivia-wilde-8787), who is now dating the pop star - went viral.

Chris Pine has released a statement calling the Harry Styles spit rimours "a ridiculous story, a complete fabrication".

[4 Talking Points After Don’t Worry Darling Premiere With Harry Styles, Florence Pugh & Olivia Wilde](https://www.capitalfm.com/news/tv-film/florence-pugh-olivia-wilde-dont-worry-darling-premiere/) the don’t worry darling drama is getting more and more absurd like what do you mean harry styles [spins wheel] spit on [spins wheel] chris pine— izzy (@spidermannwh) [Olivia Wilde](/news/olivia-wilde-real-name-why/)'s hotly-anticipated psychological thriller was screened at the Venice Film Festival on September 5 and footage of the cast at the event quickly sparked the unusual rumour, leading Pine's representative to address the media storm.

Don't Worry Darling stars Harry Styles and Chris Pine have been in a fashion head-to-head at the Venice Film Festival.

[Chris Pine](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/chris-pine-style-venice-film-festival-2022). Both have brought their A-game to Italy – alongside [Timothee Chalamet](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/watches/article/timothee-chalamet-cartier-tank-venice-2022), natch – leading to the inevitable question: who is winning the style off? [One Direction](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/one-direction-best-fashion-moments) frontman pulled off an extended statement collar in pale blue that he wore with a navy suit and matching manicure, polishing it all off with large, seventies-style shades and white boots. But there's been another subplot to the whole affair, one we are naturally more deeply interested in. [“Ha Ha Ha” capsule collection](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/harry-styles-gucci-collection-2022) with Gucci’s creative director, Alessandro Michele, which consisted of a sailor striped tee, jaunty necktie, and a retro-leaning suit infused with a seventies sensibility that nodded to one of that decade's most eccentric stars, Elton John. [Don't Worry Darling](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/dont-worry-darling-fan-theories): whether the cast is getting on, whether [Harry Style](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/tags/harry-styles)s is any good in his first major acting role ( [spoiler: yes he is](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/dont-worry-darling-harry-styles-review)), whether anyone got spat on (they did not).

The internet was already frothing at the mouth over the backstage wrangles on Olivia Wilde's new film. And then its stars started opening their mouths.

But the third is that Harry Styles and Chris Pine are at loggerheads, and the Don’t Worry Darling drama kuzuryū has just birthed another angry head. The second is that Styles did spit on Pine as part of some elaborate in-joke, because Harry Styles is cheeky and The first – which isn’t entirely unthinkable – is that nobody spat anything at anyone, and the internet is wetting its knickers over nothing. This is what a clip doing the rounds on social media shows. But this is all in the past. It is a clip of

Hear ye, hear ye, from the streets of old Venice comes an urgent and absolutely NOT salivating decree! In the wake of “Spitgate,” the internet's chosen ...

[Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/harry-styles-denies-spitting-chris-pine-1235361643/) in a statement. [pointedly avoidant](https://twitter.com/tobyherman27/status/1566848003264000000) red carpet and Wilde and Pugh’s [possibly dueling](https://twitter.com/hunteryharris/status/1566904877342760960) stylists—until something else way weirder happened. But Don’t Worry Darling is a PR team’s Whack-A-Mole—they squelch Spitgate only to realize the internet found the clip of Styles [tepidly-reviewed](https://www.avclub.com/dont-worry-darling-review-olivia-wilde-harry-styles-1849464576) sophomore film, is only weeks away from a wide release but has years of drama under its belt. His message to the populace: Harry Styles did not in any way, shape, or form [spit on Chris Pine](https://www.avclub.com/dont-worry-darling-recap-venice-film-festival-drama-1849499802) as he took his seat for the [Don’t Worry Darling](http://avclub.com/film/reviews/don't-worry-darling-2022) world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. In the wake of “

Don't Worry Darling is director Olivia Wilde's second feature film, following her 2019 debut, Booksmart. The movie, which stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, ...

"As a communications guy, my gut reaction to this kind of thing when it is on an international stage is that it is all about getting attention," says film and media historian Chris Yogerst. Chris Pine being supportive and taking photos of Florence Pugh on the ‘Don't Worry Darling’ red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Analyzing the videos of #Spittake, as some users have put it, has become the Zapruder film of Twitter. The suspicious movement around Styles' mouth made some wonder: Did Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine? Internet speculation didn't stop once the cast went into the theater. Chris Pine's reaction to this moment birthed memes that would pave the way for many more to come. In a video originally posted to On Monday morning ahead of the premiere, Wilde and the film's stars participated in a press conference — most of them, that is. Absent from the panel was Pugh, who flew to Italy from Budapest where she had been filming the sequel to Dune. The film is a psychological thriller set in the 1950s, in the fictional town of Victory, Calif. The movie, which stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan and Wilde herself, premiered on Monday at the festival and is scheduled for wide release on Sept. "Some aspects of the unfolding interpersonal drama definitely appear like an unwieldy mess," Nicholas Baer, Assistant Professor of Media, Arts & Society at Utrecht University, told NPR.

Social media had been set ablaze by suggestions of another rift in the Don't Worry Darling camp.

[But the US actor denied that,](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/shia-labeouf-denies-fired-olivia-wilde-dont-worry-darling-1235350529/) telling Variety he had "quit the film due to lack of rehearsal time". [recently said she had fired](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62670696) because his "process was not conducive to the ethos that I demand in my productions". It is the latest in a string of controversies surrounding the film. [shared a video](https://twitter.com/bilIboardpop/status/1566860446245822468) of Pine apparently zoning out when Styles talked about the film. LaBeouf stoked the flames of controversy further by sharing a video that Wilde allegedly sent him in 2020, asking him to return to the production, and asking if he and Pugh could "make peace". [the Guardian,](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/06/harry-styles-denies-spitting-chris-pine-dont-worry-darling-premiere) a source close to UK singer-turned-actor Styles said: "This is not true."

The buzziest guest at the Venice Film Festival was a supposed missile of saliva that kicked off the premiere of 'Don't Worry Darling,' Olivia Wilde's second ...

On top of that, [Florence Pugh’s](https://www.thecut.com/2022/09/florence-pugh-olivia-wilde-dodge-feud-rumors-in-venice.html) rather chilly presence (or lack thereof) in Don’t Worry Darling’s promo and press events has fueled months-old rumors that she and Wilde are beefing. The drama surrounding it escalated this weekend at the Venice Film Festival, where the buzziest guest was not [Timothée Chalamet’s back](https://www.thecut.com/2022/09/timothee-chalamet-societal-collapse-venice.html) but a supposed missile of saliva that kicked off the movie’s premiere. While sitting down, Styles does seem to lean over Pine’s lap but in a mostly natural “just sitting down at a movie theater” way. Between Wilde’s very public Not that it’s any of my business, but, um, what exactly happened here? [Wilde’s new boyfriend](https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/harry-styles-and-olivia-wilde-are-dating-per-new-photos.html), sitting down next to another of the movie’s stars, [Chris Pine](https://www.thecut.com/2022/07/i-cant-shut-up-about-chris-pines-summer-style.html), at the premiere has set the internet ablaze because it appears Styles is (maybe but probably not) projecting a ball of spit onto Pine’s lap.

Harry Styles poked fun at the theories that he spat on Chris Pine during the "Don't Worry Darling" premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

“Just to be clear, Harry Styles did not spit on Chris Pine,” the rep continued. [drama between the star of the movie, Florence Pugh, and Wilde.](https://pagesix.com/2022/09/06/inside-dont-worry-darling-drama-of-wilde-styles-pugh/) [Up Next](https://pagesix.com/2022/09/07/erika-jayne-blasts-dumb-fk-co-stars-after-rhobh-fight/)

Chris Pine's reps clarify all rumours about Harry Styles spitting on co-star Chris Pine during the premiere of their film Don't Worry Darling.

For those unversed, Pugh skipped the photo call and press conference for her film at the Venice Film Festival as she was shooting for the Dune sequel in Budapest. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, the rep vehemently denied the claims and stated, "This is a ridiculous story, a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation." [Venice Film Festival](https://www.pinkvilla.com/topic/venice-film-festival), the cast of the film gathered for the premiere of the psychological thriller but the film gained more press for a short clip than anything else about the brilliance of the movie. In the viral clip, Styles seems to have spit on Chris Pine as he comes towards his seat in the theatre. Now, the lens has zoomed in on a viral moment between Chris Pine and Harry Styles. From rumours of tension between director Olivia Wilde and main lead Florence Pugh to the former lead Shia LaBeouf exposing Wilde, the film has been shrouded in bad press.

"I just popped very quickly to Venice to spit on Chris Pine,” Styles told a screaming crowd in New York.

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The remarks drew cheers from the crowd, who no doubt had great expectorations about the incident. Rumors have been circulating since Monday about Styles ...

On stage Wednesday night at his continuing series of Madison Square Garden concerts, Styles made fun of the wild speculation that he spit on [Chris Pine](https://deadline.com/tag/chris-pine/) this week at the Venice Film Festival. It appeared Styles spit in Pine’s lap. His head dipped down briefly, and Pine froze and gave a strange smile as he looked at his hands.

You know that thing when you're on a group trip — family Disney trip, work retreat, whatever — and there's a big fight early in the trip?

“I just popped over to Venice to spit on Chris Pine,” he said to uproarious applause, “but fear not, we’re back!” It’s the first public comment a star has made about the incident, with previous statements coming from reps. Styles has been performing at MSG since August 20, but found time in his schedule to honor promotional obligations for the film. Speaking to the masses gathered at Madison Square Garden, Styles alluded to the brouhaha surrounding whether or not he spat on Chris Pine at the Don’t Worry Darling Venice screening.

Suggesting that at least one of the people existing somewhere in the maelstrom of strangeness surrounding Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling thinks it's as ...

[#SpitGate](https://www.avclub.com/harry-styles-chris-pine-spit-rumor-false-rep-claims-1849501721), a sub-section of the much larger [#DontWorryDarlingGate](https://www.avclub.com/dont-worry-darling-recap-venice-film-festival-drama-1849499802), itself a sub-chapter of #OliviaWildeGateJustSortOfInGeneralWeGuess. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, we could link you [to our own in-depth coverage of the moment when Styles may or may not have spat on one of his co-stars during the film’s Venice Film Festival premiere](https://www.avclub.com/dont-worry-darling-recap-venice-film-festival-drama-1849499802), or we could [link you to](https://twitter.com/ButWithRaptors/status/1567657544637718530) a video where someone edited the spitting dinosaurs from Jurassic Park into that footage instead. (Mostly, we’re just amused by Styles’ little laugh after he busts out the joke; you can totally tell that he spent like 20 minutes backstage with his team going, “I’m gonna do it.

During his return to Madison Square Garden, Harry Styles took a moment to address internet speculation that he spat on Chris Pine.

“Don’t Worry Darling” opens in theaters Sept. “This is a ridiculous story — a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation,” Pine’s rep said in a statement to Variety. I just popped very quickly to Venice to spit on Chris Pine,” Styles says jokingly in video footage captured by fans.

In several viral clips circulating online, Harry Styles addressed the situation to his fans at a concert in New York City.

[Wilde said at a press conference](https://www.today.com/video/-don-t-worry-darling-stars-hit-red-carpet-at-venice-premiere-147805765653) for the film festival. And as for all the endless tabloid gossip and all the noise out there, the internet feeds itself. [11-second clip](https://twitter.com/Mac70J/status/1566958343461249024?s=20&t=phl3XsmIBEHgrr7VT_z05A) that echoed around the world — well, in certain circles — and captured the imagination of would-be internet sleuths. 7, Styles addressed the situation at a concert in New York City. “A complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation. 5, appeared to show Pine stop clapping as Styles pursed his lips in the actor's direction as he sat down.

During his show at Madison Square Garden, Harry Styles joked that he "popped to Venice to spit on Chris Pine," poking fun at a viral video that created the ...

The clearly reluctant encounters followed months of rumors of a feud between the two women and drama related to the original casting (and firing) of Shia LaBeouf. “Put it this way: This isn’t a deathblow for anyone involved. (Very funny, Harry!) Styles’ return to stage comes a day after a rep for Chris Pine denied the spitting allegations in a statement shared with Rolling Stone. The now-viral video captured the “Watermelon Sugar” singer sitting next to Pine at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. (The Harries went wild.) “But fear not, we’re back!” After a quick trip to Italy to promote Don’t Worry, Darling, Styles returned to his regularly scheduled programming: Love On Tour in New York City.