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Harry Types is making gentle of a spit-ty state of affairs.
On the “Because it Was” singer’s Madison Sq. Backyard live performance Wednesday evening, Types joked in regards to the viral video footage dividing the web following Do not Fear Darling‘s Venice Movie Pageant premiere: did he or did he not spit on costar Chris Pine? (Pine’s rep beforehand informed PEOPLE in an unique assertion that the thought of Types spitting on Pine was “ridiculous.”)
Throughout Types’ live performance set, the singer and actor, 28, joked that he went “in a short time to Venice to spit on Chris Pine,” in response to multiple fan videos. After the comment, the gang erupted in applause.
Shortly following Monday’s Do not Fear Darling premiere, web customers ran with the concept Types spit on costar Pine when he bent all the way down to take his seat subsequent to the actor, 42.
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Pine was notably seated to the left of the film’s director, Types’ girlfriend Olivia Wilde.
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Because the “Watermelon Sugar” singer made his manner over to Pine, his lips can be seen transferring earlier than Pine rapidly appears to be like down and stops clapping — which some believed was him acknowledging that the singer had simply spit.
On Tuesday, Pine’s rep informed PEOPLE: “This can be a ridiculous story — a whole fabrication and the results of an odd on-line phantasm that’s clearly deceiving and permits for silly hypothesis.”
“Simply to be clear, Harry Types didn’t spit on Chris Pine,” the rep continued. “There may be nothing however respect between these two males and any suggestion in any other case is a blatant try to create drama that merely doesn’t exist.”
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Over the previous a number of weeks, the film — starring Types and Florence Pugh, 26, as a Fifties California couple residing in a wierd deliberate suburban neighborhood — has been within the headlines for behind-the-scenes turmoil.
Director and costar Wilde stated in a latest Selection interview that she fired authentic star Shia LaBeouf, who was to play Types’ function. Nevertheless, LaBeouf shot again in an e mail to Selection, saying he “stop the movie as a consequence of lack of rehearsal time.”
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The identical month, Wilde and Pugh additionally gave interviews by which they contradicted one another on the significance of Do not Fear Darling‘s intercourse scenes. Early critiques for the film are blended, with many praising Pugh’s efficiency.
Do not Fear Darling opens in theaters Sept. 23.
