Chris Pine insists Harry Styles did NOT spit on him at Venice

Chris Pine insists Harry Styles did NOT spit on him at Venice Film Festival as he weighs in on Don’t Worry Darling drama in Esquire cover shoot

Chris Pine insisted Harry Styles did not spit on him at the Venice Film Festival as he recalled the moment he learned their interactions had gone viral in a lengthy interview with Esquire magazine.

The actor, 42, recounted being awoken by his publicist mid-flight to respond to video the Internet mistakenly believed showed Styles, 29, spitting on him. 

‘I was on the plane with my publicist, who says I look like Rachel from Friends [with my current hairstyle], we’re flying back from Venice. And I’m sleeping, having a great time on the plane. I love planes,’ he explained.

‘And she wakes me up, in a, you know, in a state. She says, “We have to craft a message about what happened in Venice.” And I’m like “About what?” “About Harry spitting on you.” Which I have no idea what happened. She showed me the thing. It does look, indeed, like Harry spitting on me. He didn’t spit on me.’

Pine recalled Styles may have actually told him a joke they had all started making about doing press while jet lagged. 

‘He didn’t spit on me’: Chris Pine recounted the moment he learned the world had mistakenly believed he had been spat on by Harry Styles in a lengthy interview with Esquire magazine

‘I think what he said, is he leaned down, and I think he said, “It’s just words, isn’t it?” Because we had this little joke, because we’re all jetlagged, we’re all trying to answer these questions, and sometimes when you’re doing these press things, your brain goes all befuddled, you know, you start speaking gibberish, and we had a joke like, “It’s just words, man.”‘

At the time, a representative for Pine fired back at the ‘spitting’ scandal: ‘This is a ridiculous story… a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation.’

‘Just to be clear, Harry Styles did NOT spit on Chris Pine,’ she continued.

‘There is nothing but respect between these two men, and any suggestion otherwise is a blatant attempt to create drama that simply does not exist.’

Pine also addressed the Don’t Worry Darling press tour, dominated by alleged drama on the set of the film.

‘If there was drama, there was drama,’ he told Esquire of filming the movie. However, he clarified for the record: ‘I absolutely didn’t know about it, nor really would I have cared. If I feel badly, it’s because the vitriol that the movie got was absolutely out of proportion with what was onscreen.

‘Venice was normal things getting swept up in a narrative that people wanted to make, compounded by the metastasizing that can happen in the Twittersphere. It was ridiculous.’

He praised his co-stars and director Olivia Wilde, who also appears in the film. The star referred to Styles as a ‘sweet guy’ and described loving Florence Pugh ‘to f**king death’.

Handsome: Pine was looking smart in his cover shoot for the publication 

Picture perfect: Pine pictured on the cover of Esquire 

The actor, 42, insisted once again that Styles did not spit on him as he recalled being awoken by his publicist mid-flight to respond to viral video of their exchange at the Venice International Film Festival

As for those viral memes of him zoning out a press conference, Pine found them hilarious.  

‘All the memes I saw about my face in Venice made me f**king laugh,’ he said. He found one meme of him captioned ‘me on an important zoom call watching my cat throw up on the sofa’ particularly funny.

Pine said the meme captured him appreciating the Palazzo del Casinò’s ceiling, in a jet-lagged state.

‘Sometimes the question’s not that interesting,’ Pine said, ‘and you just f**king zone out, and you’re looking at a ceiling because it’s really pretty.’

Pine also weighed in on a fourth Star Trek film, which has been years in the works. For now, the actor insists he doesn’t know anything about the status of the movie. 

Nope! Pine re-iterated he was not spat on by Styles at the Venice International Film Festival after video of their exchange went viral 

‘It was ridiculous’: Pine said of the media frenzy surrounding the Don’t Worry Darling press tour 

‘Made me f**king laugh’: As for those viral memes of him zoning out a press conference, Pine found them hilarious

Esquire contacted producer J.J. Abrams about the film, who said they were still looking for a director.

‘I will say it’s the first time [since the original reboot] that we have a story that feels as compelling as the first one,’ Abrams said of the upcoming film. 

According to Esquire, Abrams’ comments was news to Pine.  

‘I don’t know anything,’ he said. ‘In Star Trek land, the actors are usually the last people to find out anything. I know costume designers that have read scripts before actors.’

Pine feels it’s unfair to compare Star Trek to other massive blockbuster films like Marvel.

‘I’m not sure Star Trek was ever built to do that kind of business,’ Pine said. ‘Why aren’t we just appealing to this really rabid fan group and making the movie for a good price and going on our merry way, instead of trying to compete with the Marvels of the world?’

For now, the franchise feels ‘cursed’ to Pine.  

‘After the last one came out and didn’t do the $1 billion that everyone wanted it to do, and then Anton—Yelchin, who played Chekov—passed away, I don’t know,’ he continued. ‘It just seemed… feels like it’s cursed.’

Next, fans can catch Pine in the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons film.

With a laugh, Pine recalled being told by directors that they were ‘so thankful that you’re willing to emasculate yourself onscreen.’

‘I was like, “Guys, this is not the way to go about complimenting me.”

But Pine is happy being the comedic relief, with Esquire pointing out his role in Wonder Woman as an example.

‘I’m willfully emasculating myself, because I just don’t give a s**t. If it makes me laugh, it makes me laugh. I love looking like a fool.

‘Kirk’s like that, too,’ he continues. ‘In [Star Trek], he’s James Dean, and then he walks in to meet Bones and he hits his head. I want to be able to show that you can be cool and masculine without having it be a pissing contest all the time. And if you’re pissing, sometimes you piss on your foot and you can look like a f**king idiot.’

‘Feels like it’s cursed’: Pine said he knew nothing about an upcoming fourth Star Trek film 

Coming soon: Next, fans can catch Pine in the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons film

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