And, yes, she definitely should be worrying, darling.īy all accounts, this film is going to get panned. His review, the only positive one, has bumped “Don’t Worry Darling” to a 48 on Metacritic.ĮARLIER: The embargo for auteur-extraordinaire Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” should break this afternoon. The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin, who must be the most generous film critic around, gives it a 4/5. USA Today, EW, BBC, The AV Club, Little White Lies, The Guardian and IndieWire, The Wrap are pans. The embargo has lifted and it’s as bad, if not worse, than I could have ever imagined. Also, did Styles actually spit on Chris Pine at the premiere? #SpitGate Pugh and Wilde’s stylists engaged in an instagram feud. Pugh also refused to make eye contact with her director (Wilde) during the film’s closing credits. Florence Pugh decided not to show up for the film’s press conference. Harry Styles gave us further proof of his vacant intelligence. Here’s your makeover.UPDATE: Suffice to say, today’s world premiere of “Don’t Worry Darling” more than lived up to the hype. There’s a scene in the new season when Jessi bunks with more “advanced” girls at camp, and at one point they’re like, here’s what we should do to you to “fix” you. One thing I love about “Big Mouth” is how it validates the girls’ experiences, from Missy’s frustration with her parents to Jessi’s shame and embarrassment when the boys notice her wearing a bra. She was a writer before she started voicing Missy, and she’s amazing. It’s great to have Ayo acting on the show. I think it’s so important and underexplored on TV in general. I was also really happy with the Missy story line for season 4, where Missy spends time with her cousins and explores her racial identity. That topic is on TV more than it used to be, but it is still one of the most taboo topics out there. With “Big Mouth,” I felt the opportunity to get into how teenage girls deal with their burgeoning sexuality and the intense shame you feel as a girl. Like, Oh God, we can show something that’s just a basic fact of our lives? Someone else had the courage to put it on TV, and now we’re allowed to do that? All I feel when I see these scenes - like that one in “I May Destroy You” or the moment in “PEN15” when one of the female main characters masturbates - is just a tidal wave of relief. What would my life have been like if there was a very funny, popular show telling me that figuring out how to deal with pads was a normal thing other girls were struggling with? You’re just a human being trying not to bleed out. Like, how did that happen? She was not keeping up with menstrual technology. But it’s a thing where the pads clip into an actual belt. No one reading your article will even know what that is. When I got my period, my mother literally handed me the period belt. That sounds like a scene that could’ve made it into the show. I also remember talking to a few writers about my first period, which I got on Yom Kippur at my grandmother’s house. ![]() The show’s creators gave me the opportunity to bring stories to the table and talk about personal experiences of my own that could help fuel stories for Jessi. I would drop by occasionally and sit with the writers, sometimes working on specific episodes, especially early on. I remember thinking that was as close as it got to something that represented my inner life.ĭid you have a hand in shaping Jessi’s character? Even seeing “The Facts of Life” was a big, big deal, because it showed girls with friendships and talking to each other and opening up. The majority of what we were taking in was a mainstream version of female teenagehood. I definitely didn’t see any TV shows addressing female desire when I was growing up. There’s an entire episode called “Girls Are Horny Too.” These are edited excerpts from the conversation. ![]() She also talked about period belts (an actual thing), what it means to be “dirty nerdy” and what it’s been like to work on a show she wishes had existed when she was an adolescent. Klein, 45, was barely five minutes into her interview when she launched into the story of her first period - “It’s the original ‘where were you on 9/11?’” she joked. ![]() By putting these moments onscreen, the show validates and demystifies those experiences for its younger viewers - and suggests that girls’ stories are just as worthy of attention as the boys’. Preteen shame, though nearly universal, is rarely discussed so deeply or probed with such enthusiasm in popular culture, particularly with such careful attention to the small, physical moments that typically go unspoken among girls, like worrying about the outline of your pad against your shorts, or trying and failing to insert a tampon. ![]() Big Mouth’s humor and levity offer an easy entry point to complex topics.
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