Chris Pine’s publicist made a hilarious comparison between him and Rachel Green from Friends, and Pine revealed he promptly chopped off his long hair.
Chris Pine admits he chopped off his long hair after a publicist told him he resembled Friends star Rachel Green
Pine debuted his new, longer hair at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where he was promoting Don’t Worry Darling, but his colleague did not approve of the change.
‘I thought I was looking pretty, pretty fly, the hair was long, everything was happening, and my publicist said I looked like Rachel from Friends,’ Chris told Esquire.
‘I couldn’t unhear it,’ he said, ‘And it was the first day and my first time in Venice…’
Pine added: ‘It was a long flight to f*****g Italy. I was so jetlagged and then you get thrown into a press conference where you get to talk about a film you made five and a half years ago. I was just tired, frankly.’
The ‘spit-gate’ scandal started at the Venice Film Festival.
When they were sitting next to each other at the premiere of Don’t Worry, Darling, it looked like Harry Styles spat on his co-star.
During the strange exchange, Pine, who was clapping as Styles sat down next to him, seemed to stop, look down at his leg, and stick out his tongue in shock.
The laughing actor then shot a funny look back at the pop star, who was too busy adjusting his jacket and smiling around the room to notice Pine’s cheeky reaction.
A person who knows Pine well said: ‘Harry Styles did not spit at all. People are seeing some odd illusion of sorts online that is clearly deceiving.’
And Pine has told the truth about what happened in Venice.
‘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 spokesperson for Pine said this in response to 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 talked about the Don’t Worry Darling press tour, which was dominated by rumors about trouble on the set of the movie and Olivia Wilde’s salad recipe.
‘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.’
Pine also gave his opinion on a fourth Star Trek movie that has been in the works for years. For now, the actor says he doesn’t know what’s going on with the movie, but he thinks the whole series is cursed.
‘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.’
