{"id":70405,"date":"2022-09-09T02:02:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/it-is-what-it-is\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T02:02:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T02:02:01","slug":"it-is-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/it-is-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is what it is&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Shia LaBeouf got a final word in after \u201cDon&#8217;t Worry Darling\u201d director Olivia Wilde claimed that she fired him to protect lead actress Florence Pugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is what it is,\u201d LaBeouf told the Hollywood Reporter.  \u201cEvery blessing to her and every movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilde, 38, had again insisted that she chose to fire the 36-year-old actor, in an interview with Vanity Fair published on Thursday, citing his on-set behavior and her responsibility to Pugh, 26, as reasons she let him go .  Her statements come weeks after LaBeouf announced that he&#8217;d left the film on his own volition following disagreements with Wilde&#8217;s direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy responsibility was towards [Florence],\u201d Wilde told Vanity Fair.  \u201cI&#8217;m like a mother wolf.  Making the call was tricky, but in a way he understood.  I don&#8217;t think it would&#8217;ve been a process he enjoyed.  He comes at his work with an intensity that can be combative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-6\">\u201cIt wasn&#8217;t the ethos that I demand in my productions,\u201d she continued.  \u201cI want him to get well and to evolve because I think it&#8217;s a great loss to the film industry when someone that talented is unable to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf has a tarnished reputation in Hollywood, as he currently stands accused of sexual and emotional abuse by his ex-girlfriend, the British artist FKA Twigs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>LaBeouf leaked exchanges between himself the Wilde, suggesting he wasn&#8217;t fired but quit due to lack of rehearsal time.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corbis via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The former child star has publicly refuted claims he was fired from the film, claiming he quit due to lack of rehearsal time with his co-stars, and called it \u201cattractive clickbait\u201d in leaked texts, emails and videos exchanged between himself and Wilde to prove his point.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cFiring me never took place, Olivia,\u201d an email he sent to the director read.  \u201cAnd while I fully understand the attractiveness of pushing that story because of the current social landscape, the social currency that brings.  It is not the truth.\u201d  LaBeouf also shared a video message apparently sent by Wilde, in which she appears to be trying to convince the actor back to the shoot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue is so much more nuanced than can be explained in private texts released out of context,\u201d Wilde responded when asked about the leaked exchanges by the publication.  \u201cAll I&#8217;ll say is he was replaced, and there was no going forward with him.  I wish him the best in his recovery. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf was replaced by Harry Styles in the now notorious film in December 2020, with the \u201cBooksmart\u201d director calling reports of tension between her and Pugh as \u201cbaseless rumors.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/shia-lebeouf-olivia-wilde-response-02.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"olivia wilde\" class=\"wp-image-23792283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/shia-lebeouf-olivia-wilde-response-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/shia-lebeouf-olivia-wilde-response-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/shia-lebeouf-olivia-wilde-response-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Wilde doubled down on claims she fired LaBeouf to protect the film&#8217;s lead actress, Florence Pugh.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sources alleged that Pugh was unhappy with Wilde because she was canoodling with Styles while still with \u201cTed Lasso\u201d star Jason Sudeikis, the father of her two children.<\/p>\n<p>Wilde declined to comment when a journalist asked her about the drama during a panel at the Venice International Film Festival premiere this week, from which Pugh was absent.<\/p>\n<p>However, Wilde maintains there is no bad blood between the two women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very rare that people assume the best from women in power,\u201d Wilde told the Vanity Fair.  \u201cI think they don&#8217;t often give us the benefit of the doubt.  Florence did the job I hired her to do, and she did it exquisitely.  She blew me away.  Every day I was in awe of her, and we worked very well together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shia LaBeouf got a final word in after \u201cDon&#8217;t Worry Darling\u201d director Olivia Wilde claimed that she fired him to protect lead actress Florence Pugh. \u201cIt is what it is,\u201d LaBeouf told the Hollywood Reporter. \u201cEvery blessing to her and every movie.\u201d Wilde, 38, had again insisted that she chose to fire the 36-year-old actor, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/it-is-what-it-is\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;It is what it is&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[109,6123,5630,11578,21037],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56656,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/olivia-wilde-says-shia-labeouf-fired-from-dont-worry-darling-to-make-set-safe-for-florence-pugh\/","url_meta":{"origin":70405,"position":0},"title":"Olivia Wilde says Shia LaBeouf fired from &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry Darling&#8221; to make set &#8220;safe&#8221; for Florence Pugh","date":"August 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Olive Wilde's upcoming psychological thriller \"Don't Worry Darling\" has created plenty of buzz well before its September debut, and not necessarily about the movie itself. 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