Don’t Worry Darling got off to such a good start. It’s Olivia Wilde’s directorial follow-up to Booksmart. It had that super sexy trailer, which was supposed to be even sexier. But over the last few weeks what was supposed to be a sure thing has been plagued with bad press. When it finally debuted this weekend at the Venice Film Festival, it scored not very good reviews, as well as a pretty awkward press conference, which its star Florence Pugh decided to skip. But one actor to stayed knew how to handle it: he zoned the eff out.
— elsa (@mcclafloy) September 5, 2022
Chris Pine — who plays some guru loosely modeled on pseudo-intellectual incel champ Jordan Peterson — showed up at the presser looking pretty fly, with long blonde locks. He looked handsome in the photos, but he also looked…detached. He didn’t look drugged-up, but he looked like he had decided to self-disassociate from a press to-do in which journalists were reportedly not allowed to address a number of large, controversial elephants in the room. He either looked zen or he looked like he’d rather be anywhere else.
The photos scored a lot of jokes, with some worried about him.
— bethany (@fiImgal) September 5, 2022
This is a lotta look for Chris Pine pic.twitter.com/PQCOjlc3ff
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) September 5, 2022
Worry I’m not even here, darling.
Caption: Chris Pine astral projecting at Venice Film Festival. September 5, 2022. pic.twitter.com/qSU1XbTWDp
— Richard Newby (@RICHARDLNEWBY) September 5, 2022
this was 3rd degree torture for Chris pine pic.twitter.com/4TFOb93Y9N