Leave it to an Instagram post to stir the pot of controversy. Olivia Wilde posted an elaborated compliment on Monday to Harry Styles (her rumored boyfriend, and also a supporting actor in the movie she’s directing) for bucking what she calls a trend in Hollywood. “Most male actors don’t want to play supporting roles in female-led films,” “which is one of the reasons it’s so hard to get financing for movies focusing on female stories.” Styles has no problem letting Florence Pugh “hold center stage.”

 

 

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Cue backlash.. As BuzzFeed points out, people were mad at the low standards men are held to saying Wilde was heaping praise on Styles for doing the “bare minimum.”

But then came the backlash over the backlash…many pointed out that Wilde fired the film’s previous male star, Shia LaBeouf, and was likely referring to him without actually naming him.

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