Did Harry Styles really just spit on Chris Pine?
On the evening on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, the internet wanted to know one thing and one thing only: Did Harry Styles really just spit on Chris Pine?
No matter how many times people replay the footage, the truth may never come to light. But there’s another question that we might be able to get to the bottom of: Why would anyone think he did?
Styles and Pine are currently promoting their new film, Don’t Worry Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde (Booksmart) and co-starring Midsommar’s Florence Pugh. The production has been at the center of of a firestorm of celebrity gossip for over a year, culminating in yesterday’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which produced this murky-but-extraordinary piece of footage:
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appears to spit on Chris Pine i won't sleep until i know the truth pic.twitter.com/wLXjIHTYgU
Taking his seat next to Pine to watch the film, Styles bends briefly over his co-star. Pine freezes mid-clap and looks down at his lap, as if something just landed there, or perhaps on his shoe. He smiles and shakes his head slightly, as if in disbelief, before making eye contact with Styles. Both stay smiling.
It’s a mesmerizing clip that has all of Twitter freezing, zooming and enhancing in search of some unknowable truth. Does Styles purse his lips and jerk his head forward, infinitesimally? Maybe. On the other hand, is Pine just looking down to pick up the spectacles he’s dropped on his seat? Could be. It’s really Pine’s reaction that sells it, plus the incongruous, summery glamor of the setting: Wilde’s cascading lemon-yellow dress on the left of the frame, Styles’ electric-blue suit and extravagant shirt lapels on the right, Pine’s
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