halfway ) Don’t worry, honey has a disturbing party scene in an already disturbing movie: a frenzied Chris Pine on stage, incensed A group of corporate men in tuxedos and forcing Harry Styles to click dance like a trained monkey, while Florence Pugh’s Alice begins to fall apart. In stark contrast to the macho, however, is the hilarious queen Dita von Tees, who made a sparkling cameo in a soap-bubble life-size champagne glass topped with a giant strawberry.
“We were late 417,as far as I know, It could hit the editing room floor,” Fontes told me from Los Angeles. It wasn’t until she watched the psychological thriller at its recent New York premiere that she realized she had a role in the twisting film’s turning point. Von Teese said she was “amused” by fans approaching her about the cameo, recognizing her even when her signature crow hair was hidden by a platinum wig. She doesn’t assume “people might say, ‘That’s not the girl in the glass.'”
Vogue Talking to Fontes about director Olivia Wilde, around don’t worry darling, the drama of
and the feeling of filming that seminal scene with Pine, Pugh and Styles.
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Costume Designer] Arianne Phillips, is your contact.
Dita Von Tees: I got a call from Alena. We’ve been friends for a long time, and when I heard it was Olivia Wilde…I’m a huge fan of her work. Immediately I was like, “Oh my god, I’m going to love this,” because I’m just sitting…you know, show business is completely shut down. I’m planning a world tour that should start in February 350. I’m my own producer, I invest myself, so I’m kind of like, Will I have another gig? I cancelled my tour and this movie was my first show back. So, it’s a little nerve-wracking, but at the same time I’m really excited.
When Arianne called you, what did she tell you about the movie?
almost immediately from a few text messages to Olivia and Arianne in my garage, we were pulling out the costumes and I was showing them everything on a big table. We lay them flat because they are very heavy with the large Swarovski crystals. I know very little about this movie. In fact, when I watched it last week, it was the first time I watched it, and I didn’t know anything about the plot.
What do you think of this movie? Personally, I don’t see a turning point coming.
So many plot twists, including ones where a lot of reviews say it sucks, but everyone loves the movie. Now that it’s out, it speaks for itself. I was kind of like, wow, this seems to be some kind of misogyny.
Do you see any connection between the message of the film and the way women-directed films are received? I also wonder if all the picking and reviewing happens…
…if it’s a man. This is what I’ve been thinking too. It wouldn’t be a problem if the director was a man and it was like… you know, everything happened. Anyway, I’m not private…I only watched the movie for one day, so I don’t know it all, but I just watched [all the movie coverage] going on, oh, so weird. Will this be a good movie? Now that it’s the #1 movie in the country, people can’t stop talking about it. I know I don’t have a bad taste in movies, and I enjoy it, whether I’m part of it or not.
What was it like being directed by Olivia Wilde?
amazing. I had a great time. I do my thing most of the time. It was fun because we were filming at the Cicada Club [in Los Angeles] which was one of my early first gigs 50s. [Olivia] was the one who suggested that I was blonde, and I was like, “Well, I have a great blonde wig here.” It was funny. I mean, it wasn’t an easy show for me because I’m used to being on a big, big stage, and I’m basically on a little platform in the middle of the room. I just had to blend the costumes differently and dance differently than I usually do on tour.
Why do you think blonde hair is important?
I think [Olivia] wanted to associate it with those Busby Berkeley type girls in blond wigs who were in weird flashback events.
How did you and Olivia sit in champagne glasses, as opposed to clam shells or martini glasses or any other aesthetic?
The champagne class was really fun because of the soap. I thought for this movie it would be interesting to see the large lumps of frosted soap in the glass, with bubbles, instead of a clear martini glass. I might have seven or eight glass designs. I keep improving the design as people copy it.
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It’s acting, but acting around all these barking lunatics is weird ?
Yes. My career crossed an arc, and at first, it was it was
like that, because I started my burlesque in strip clubs. That changed when I published my beauty book and the book explaining why I love burlesque and glamour and its transformative power. I have this whole new fan base of female strikers. When I first started, I was in my s Now I’m going to transfer . I’ve gone through the arc of being a Playboy
star and now keep the burlesque alive. It’s important to me to present my show as a whole, not necessarily this sex symbol.
In the golden age of burlesque—’sand’25s – this is man’s entertainment. That’s a striptease. Now that’s another story. This is another parallel that I love so much about this movie.It brings me back to “28 where you’re just objectified, although I don’t mind being Objectification because it’s liberating to be addicted to it and admit that sometimes you like it. But I feel more empowered in modern times to be a funny star, which means something very different than it was back then.
This movie sparked a lot of discussion. You end up thinking Is this about female pleasure?
I had no idea it was about female pleasure. I think they were just talking about sex scenes, yes they were funny and flirty sex scenes, but I didn’t know this movie was about female pleasure. We keep hearing about it because of all the tabloid stuff.
Which part hit you the hardest?
The thing that hits me the most – no spoilers – is: what happens in the movie can happen. It’s creepy, Because it’s not too far from a possible scenario. I saw it in theaters last week and I’m still thinking about it. Do you have any acting bugs?
A few years ago, Ralph Fiennes And Martha Fiennes, the film director of the Joseph Fiennes family, wanted me to play Mata Hari in a film she made that wasn’t made. She put me in through Ralph’s recommendation I took private acting lessons for two years, but I never really used it. Years ago, I was in CSI used it in an episode of . I was intrigued by it, but it was never my first love. It got me out of my comfort zone, which is certainly a good place to be. When I first got known, People say, “You should be an actor” but that’s not why I do it all. I do it because I love burlesque , and embrace your sensuality in a playful and fun way. Burlesque is never a stepping stone to something bigger.
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