Did Harry Styles really spit at Chris Pine at the Don’t Worry Darling premiere?

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

Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, Chris Pine and director Olivia Wilde during the Venice Film Festival. Picture: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP

If you have TikTok, or Twitter, or any social media at all really, there is a very good chance that you have been repeatedly subjected to the same clip all day. If it is real, it is one of the most bizarre clips that has ever made it to the internet. It is a clip of Harry Styles spitting at Chris Pine at the Don’t Worry Darling premiere.

Anyone who has been keeping abreast of Don’t Worry Darling will know that it isn’t particularly good. The BBC called it “an empty shell”, The Daily Beast said that Harry Styles’s “bastardized British accent is a distraction” and Peter Bradshaw observed that the whole film is “a movie marooned in a desert of unoriginality”. But then the film would have had to be an outright masterpiece to overcome its own behind-the-scenes chaos.