#and itll be a little mystique

[absentmoon]

my laxk of self control man

[oopshisaygoodnight]

"do you have thoughts on the film drama" you so naively asked.

here is my manifesto, which is more of a timeline:

booksmart was my favorite movie in 2019, and when dont worry darling was announced, i was stoked O had a cool sounding project and got a great cast together. everything i knew filtered in from film twitter. harry replaced shia, which was exciting news

O made a series of posts praising the cast & crew, and this is what she said about harry:

inset the instagram

very cool! perhaps a little too pat-on-the-back for a man doing the bare minimum, but harry's name means something to fans and in the business. (you can track a bit of a huge boost in numbers of likes and comments on instagram after DWD and harry stuff).

at this point they were about a month and half into the so-called “romance”. they were photographed holding hands in january 2021 at harry’s managers wedding. DWD filming had wrapped in december but they were doing reshoots through february. a little bold for a director and her actor to be at the wedding date stage of the relationship after, at a minimum of knowing each other, 3 months. whatever. stranger things. hot people find a way of getting together. shrug.

she was also quoted around december 2020 in a “directors on directors” interview that she has a “no assholes policy” on set, and first implies/states that shia was perhaps an asshole that she fired intentionally. this will bite her in the ass apprxomiately two and a half years into repeating this version of the story.

summer 2021, we get pictures of them being cute in LA, kissing on a yacht in italy, and it’s all a lil scandy but whatever, she’s a grownup who is in the midst of a custody battle with jason sudeikis over their two kids and ostensibly working on edits for DWD and getting the ball rolling on her third projects. whatever- i’m supportive! 

september 2021 i got to see harry on his second show of love on tour, which made me questions the depths of the fangirling i could be capable under the right circumstances. afterwards i was fed a lot of harry concert reels and even jealous because she wasnt at my show, but she was at a ton of harry's concerts across america. she was always bopping in the crowd, interacting with a few fans.

somewhere in 2021: first rumor of conflict on set gets some traction. a tiktok alleges that the person was a PA and witnessed florence being very frustrated with olivia and taking over directing her own scenes. truly just mindless gossip, but a seed is planted. did florence and olivia maybe not get along on the set of DWD?

december 2021, olivia is the vogue cover. first DWD teaser, first drop that itll be out september 2022. some key quotes "the feminist mystique on acid"

"The 1950s get this rap as a very controlled, conservative era, when in fact it was incredibly debaucherous. My grandparents on my mother’s side loved to party"

"I kept saying, ‘Why isn’t there any good sex in film anymore?"

"realize how rarely they see female hunger, and specifically this type of female pleasure"

"The celebrity press has been particularly harsh on Wilde, professing to be scandalized that a woman in her 30s should dare to find love with a man 10 years younger. “It’s obviously really tempting to correct a false narrative,” Wilde says, with rueful composure, when I ask if she’d like to address the furor. “But I think what you realize is that when you’re really happy, it doesn’t matter what strangers think about you. All that matters to you is what’s real, and what you love, and who you love.”"

around the end of 2021 we get her vogue cover story, and the start of this narrative she is pushing about female-led stories, about making good sex scenes, about female pleasure, etc etc. DWD is an erotic thriller- sweet, we could use more of that in cinema.