Did Olivia Wilde Fire Shia LaBeouf? “A Question Of Semantics” Says The “Don’t Worry Darling” Dir. 

she blames the drama on the internet...while she's the one who created it! the Internet just reacted to things she said.

Stephen's thirst for accuracy is such a pleasure to watch

Love how the biggest part of this film is someone that quit hahaha

Florence has stated many times that she was NEVER scared of Shia LaBeouf. It was a case of Florence not wanting to rehearse the amount of time that Shia felt he needed to do the role properly. There was no problem with Shia's on-set behavior - That was all cooked up by Olivia Wilde 👌

God she could be a politician

The best part of all the “promos” is Florence Pugh being late in that Film festival and Chris Pine taking her pictures 😂

She should run for office with how well she didn't answer that question.

“There were messages released to make something look like it wasn’t.” *Are you referring to the LITERAL video released, demeaning Florence and BEGGING Shia to come back to the shoot? Sis, you can’t fake a video. It wasn’t like someone used virtual reality to capture your likeness.*

I don't know what it is called in English but in Spanish' there is something called 'despido indirecto' when the employee feels compelled to quit because of worsened work conditions (perceived or real). The employer then says that the employee quit but the employee says that they were (indirectly) fired. The claims, in this case, are the opposite but it is about semantics too.

Yet another case of entitled celebrity trying to blame everyone but herself.

He asked multiple times and multiple ways if she fired Shia. She not once could simply say, "Yes". I get the sense he left before she had the stance of "he's fired." Whatever it is though, why does it matter? Okay, someone quit your movie, say that and move on to your movie. Why have arguments about it? * 6:37 "He didn't wanna be a part of the production we were making in the way I like to make productions, and so, he moved on." aka He Quit.

Is it me or is Colbert asking harder questions since his return?

You can judge someone's honesty from the way they answer the simple "yes/no" questions.

Her movie is sitting at 35% on rotten tomatoes…

I just LOVE IT when people bold-face lie about something and the interviewer doesn't have the guts to confront them. "I hear you, but what about this video where you beg Shia to stay in the film and you're low-key condescending towards Florence? Would you care to put that into perspective?"

also, the main issue is that her lead actress supported the movie through gritted teeth. her team made miss flo shirts, they didn’t interact at the premiere. of course olivia won’t address any of this bc there’s no easy spin

Stephen is a brilliant interviewer. He made her feel comfortable with sincere compliments about her work and then pressured her for a straight answer without being rude or antagonizing... brilliant

That's a lot of dancing around just to say "Yes" or "No" I Fired him.

The thumbnail looks like Stephen is shooting fire from his eyes.

She's that friend in your circle you can't stand because they're so fake.

Me dodging questions in job interview :

Soooo... he quit. Her original statement made it seem like she fired him for the safety of the cast a crew. Now if she's saying it was mutual and over creative differences, she should really apologize for her original story

So Shia basically quit. She didn't really fire him, she just moved on

it's always best to address this type of stuff head on.

When you blast people in a magazine but then blame the “internet” for starting rumors 🙄🙄🙄 girl, please GTFOH

Imagine if all this behind the scenes drama ends up just being bs marketing

I can still hear her condescendingly saying “Miss Flo.”

My honest point of view is that Olivia is not gonna be able to recover from this. The way she tried to portray herself as this "protector" and then called Florence a brat behind her back? Come on girl.

Didn't expect her to talk about the drama etc after the shia stuff tbh.

I like the harder questions. So tired of TV fluff.

One day I will attend The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as a guest and have a great conversation over liquor.

I know she was exhausted after dancing around that question 😂

Olivia has had plenty of time to correct the narrative about firing Shia but she didn't because it made her look like a girl boss protecting women. I remember this kicking up last year when there was a story that was everywhere about her strict "no assholes" policy. All the headlines at the time said that in relation to her firing/replacing Shia with Harry. A simple tweet from her could have fixed it but nope. It was a good look for her after the mess came out with Twigs so she let it ride. Women can be just as shady & self-serving as men. This is an "L" for her but she'll be fine. People will forget about it when she has a big box office hit or directs something else that's critically acclaimed. After that video & the texts, anything she says now is just spin. She's had time since it's all surfaced to come up with an answer for what we all were shown. Her 1st one, basically blaming it all on the internet, didn't work. This one will get picked up by the media & make the rounds but I doubt it will work either. She just should have said Shia left & that would have been the end of it.

She should be a politician the way she doesn't directly answer questions

35% on Rotten Tomatoes, maybe Shia LaBeouf was right

Booksmart was funny AF

He said, "I'm leaving." She said, "Please don't go!" He said, "No thank you, I am leaving." There is no room for her to think she fired him. She lied through her teeth.

Olivia Wilde just keeps digging that whole🤦🏻, seriously her 15 minutes of fame are up…she needs to go back to being forgotten

This wouldn’t have been a big deal if SHE didn’t make it a big deal! She was the one who publicly said something about a “no a**hole policy” implying that Shia was the difficult one when it was mutual. So her saying all of this now makes her look dishonest to me…

she didn't fire him, he quit😂

She didint really answer his question. He cant both quit and be fired at the same time

Damn!! I love class the Mr. Colbert exudes!!!

Technically, she did not have to fire him. It was clearly mutual.

if somebody is quiting can we firm him??😂😂😂

Strong Amber Heard vibes.

She is so talented, and she is also gas lighting.

Oh man she got out on the spot and got so nervous 😂😂😂.

Damn she really thinks she can just will that video into no longer existing

He quit more than she fired him. She didn’t fire her, so he quit. That’s all.

Those released private messages and videos did have context.

I'm glad Olviia Wilde is finally getting called out on her bullshit, she's been discreetly problematic for years.

The fact that he addressed the drama. This is why Stephen is the best.

wake up call for Ms Flo?? Are we not addressing that???

She's lying. She begged Shia to come back. The recorded audio by Shia shows that. Colbert should have asked her that. She's making herself out as a hero by making it safe for the other actors. She's an opportunist liar. She even lied about the divorce papers.

“It’s a matter of semantics” it’s giving me “i use pledge and donation synonymously” vibes 😬

She’s just saying words🤨

I *love* the earrings in that scene! Atomic nuclei-it's a nice touch. I cannot figure out if Wilde's earrings are part of the theme. They remind me of a cyclotron but that's a different beast from a "device".

I watched the movie last night and the introduction was only on the drama not the film😭😂😭

People have a hard time understanding that both can be true. Creative differences are common, and people try to resolve them. It really doesn't matter who arrives first at the conclusion that it won't work out; the other one was probably 90% there anyway.

Miss Flo is a great director too

Is it only me or Stephen REALLY tried SO hard to make this film sound good

There are people who are brilliant at their job but don’t fit into a particular workplace. It’s more adult to part ways rather than stay and antagonise each other.

She didn't fire him, he didn't make Florence uncomfortable and she's trying to capitalise on the idea that she did fire him because he made Florence uncomfortable. I don't know why she keeps digging this ditch.

So I guess the winner in this is Jason.

All this attention just proves that the clever marketing of the natural human drama happening during a production is pure gold. Makes me really question it's legitimacy.

Hey, I get it… conflicts have a rise and a fall. It has to get resolved. Then you move on. It depends on where YOU are and you always have the players…the boss and the worker. You have to know your place and you can walk away if you need to.

STEPHEN YOU MADLAD 😭👏👏👏

Semantics? We're always up for some antics.

wow. she said absolutely nothing for 7 minutes straight. i think shia was right.

Damn she really has a thick skin!

I've never heard of her. I think that was for the better.

Nah she’s gaslighting us. We All saw the video and we know the difference between firing and quitting

She’s probably not wrong. Contractually you normally can’t just quit a movie because you don’t like it…you need to be “let go” from your contract…so he wanted out, they let him…which on paper can look like he was fired even though he wanted to be.

Colbert is so eloquently spoken. I myself didn't care for the film and maybe he did or did not but he managed to be polite nonetheless

I’ve heard that the drama off screen is actually better than the actual film …

LaBeouf and Pugh should just do a movie together. It would be ultimate the response. Also, it would be a great movie.

Colbert hits hard! She should've went on Fallon and he would have just tussled her hair 😁

The phrase poisonous atmosphere comes to mind. And btw- it doesn't happen all the time.

also, there is so much context people usually don’t see.

Yeah he quit, she didn't fire him

So, still lying. Shia and Florence never met. There was no argument between them. Shia was getting annoyed that there wasn't more rehearsal time for both him and Florence. Part of the reason for there not being enough rehearsal time was a scheduling conflict that Florence had. Shia was not annoyed at Florence about her scheduling conflict, that happens with most actors, he was annoyed at the movies producers and at Wilde for not working around her schedule to still give them plenty of rehearsal time. They had instead just cut the rehearsal time down. Which is one of the reasons Shia and Florence hadn't even met. So Shia complained to Wilde and said he is leaving the film if there is not enough rehearsal. Then Wilde dropped Florence in it saying that it was all Florence's fault for not having enough rehearsal time. And begged Shia to stay on if Florence agrees to work harder. Shia said again, if there is enough rehearsal time he would do it. Wilde went back to Florence's team and asked if there is anyway for her to get out of what she is doing now to come and do extra rehearsals for her film. Florence's team got back to her and said sorry, but the scheduling was agreed upon and she can't get out of what she is already working on. Wilde went back to Shia, and again putting all the blame on Florence, said that she can not organize extra rehearsal time. The only way she could do it would be to drop Florence and hire someone else and she didn't want to do that. Shia said fair enough, I understand, but I can't do this role with this little rehearsal so I'm out. That is the story. There was never any feud between Florence and Shia. And Wilde did not fire him. What Wilde thought, wrongly, was when months after this all happened and we all heard about abuse claims against Shia. She thought she could get some attention for her film by simply saying she fired Shia because she was this woke Director who protects her cast. It backfired because she didn't realize Shia kept the texts and video messages and that Florence wouldn't back her bullsh1t story.

Janitor: "Another DAMN PEN on the floor!?" 🖊👀

Creative differences happen all the time and this quitting/firing should never have been put to the public. She turned it into a circus by ever mentioning him but hopefully they patch things up……

I listened to Jordon Peterson and Olivia Wild. Olivia is disingenuous and a liar. I think her career is going take after what she said about Peterson. It's easy to look up what each person said. Olivia has issues going on.

I just came here to say something about Olivia Wilde. Decided she’s not worth the effort after listening to her. Great job Stephen cutting through her BS.

i haven’t even seen the movie. i was initially incredibly excited about it, as a huge fan of Florence & an appreciator of harry styles. but now i don’t even know if i want to. all of these brand new professional internet movie critics giving their “hot takes” with a huge variation of narratives around this whole situation. realizing this is a movie full of *only adults* yet there are casts out there full of children that get along & act better? what could have possibly happened on that set?

It was disingenuous for her to say he was fired, end of story period. I would respect her more if she would give a full apology and explain herself honestly.

I enjoyed the Stepford Wives even with all its flaws particularly the final act so i'm very intrigued by this film and could care less about all the outside noise surrounding the film that doesn't really change the actual film. The hate she's getting on social media especially on twitter is just ridiculous. and Harry Styles too for wanting to act and getting these roles. I knew it from the beginning that both Olivia and Shia's accounts of how stuff went down could be both true since what people are forgetting to account for in all their speculations was the timeline of events. She explains it really well which was also my theory from the beginning.

That actually does make sense that they both think it was their doing that he left BUT that was one of the smaller rumours

Don't say you fired him

2:13 lol yeah, Steven did NOT see this movie, that's for sure xD

In a word.. This interview is America 2022

This was just a pretext so Late Night could test its new Pants Extinguisher System. All it takes to know she's going to try to lie, or avoid the question is asking her a question that she won't want to answer. Because yeah, those pants were on FIRE.

People naturally dislike Wilde and anything associated with her.

Crazy Amber heard anyone... Total crazy vibe

Love her since I saw her on “House”. (One of my favorite all time shows) She’s a great actress not recognized enough and escalated her career to the next level to show people she wasn’t a one trick pony not being shown she can do both and has done both some of her greatest work so far. Thankful she loves it all and is continuing to do more projects.

The fact that she wants to prove that she fired someone is beyond me. What's wrong with people.

"Did you fire?" "We had to replace" later "Then you said you're fired" "Then I said that's great you go" and even later the telling "He didn't want to". This would have been such a non-story if she hadn't come out with the initial PR-based lie. Enough casting changes happen in filming normally as to be just a minor story, it was the lying and then wondering about the mystery, the 'why' of the lying, that makes people more interested.

Why is she reminding me on Amber Heard!

i think that private conversation is just her trying to plead with shia and telling him what he wants to hear. then the ultimatum was given and eventually she chose florence.. since shia wouldn't want to deal with it.