Director Olivia Wilde was in the midst of introducing her forthcoming movie, “Don’t Fear Darling,” at CinemaCon on Tuesday when somebody positioned a cryptic yellow envelope on the stage in entrance of her.
“That is for me, proper?” a perplexed Wilde mentioned, redirecting her consideration to the skinny package deal marked “Private and Confidential.”
“Very mysterious. I’m going to open it now,” she continued earlier than glancing at its contents onstage on the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. “Is that this a script? OK, received it. Thanks.”
With out lacking a beat, Wilde resumed her ready remarks about her extremely anticipated psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh, Harry Kinds, Chris Pine, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll and Gemma Chan.
Whereas many thought she was merely handed an unsolicited screenplay, Deadline appeared to get the inside track: Wilde was reportedly given custody papers, courtesy of former accomplice Jason Sudeikis. The actors, who by no means married, have two children collectively. Representatives for Warner Bros. and Wilde didn’t reply instantly Wednesday to The Occasions’ requests for remark.
After images surfaced on-line of the filmmaker talking on the occasion — attended by hundreds of leisure trade members and journalists — Twitter customers couldn’t assist however marvel: What was within the envelope?
“Me being nosy af and desirous to know what’s on this folder,” tweeted one individual.
“Me making an attempt to determine what might have been within the envelope handed to Olivia Wilde yesterday,” one other individual tweeted, together with a preferred meme of a personality from “It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia” peddling a conspiracy concept.
Within the suspenseful trailer for “Don’t Fear Darling,” which premiered Tuesday at CinemaCon, Kinds and Pugh’s characters get intimate whereas one thing sinister bubbles below the floor. Throughout her CinemaCon speech, Wilde deemed her “formidable” sophomore characteristic movie, a follow-up to 2019’s “Booksmart,” a “love letter to the films that push the boundaries of our creativeness.”
She additionally gushed concerning the movie’s “extraordinary” ensemble solid, together with the “good,” “attractive,” “humorous” and “robust” Pugh and pop celebrity Kinds — whom Wilde jokingly described as “an up-and-coming actor with no different profession that I’m conscious of.” (Final yr Wilde was additionally romantically linked to Kinds.)
“I need you to think about a life the place you will have the whole lot you might ever need,” Wilde advised the viewers.
“What would it not take so that you can quit that ... good life? What are you actually prepared to sacrifice with the intention to do what’s proper? Are you prepared to dismantle the system that's designed to serve you? That’s the world and the query of ‘Don’t Fear Darling.’”
Occasions workers writers Ryan Faughnder and Christie D’Zurilla contributed to this report.
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