Chris Pine has lastly revealed whether or not his Don’t Fear Darling co-star Harry Kinds spat on him whereas on the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition in August final 12 months.

In a brand new video interview with Esquire whereas selling his upcoming movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves, Pine revealed what truly occurred whereas he and his solid mates have been in Venice final 12 months.

Reviewing footage of the supposed “spitting incident”, which noticed Kinds leaning over Pine earlier than taking a seat that would go away the latter wanting confused for a second, Pine revealed: “Harry didn’t spit on me. Harry is a really, very sort man.”

Pine adopted up the assertion by saying that he was on a flight when he was awoken by his publicist, who was scrambling to craft a message in regards to the rumours of the incident that had flooded social media.

“It does look, certainly, like Harry spitting on me. He didn’t spit on me,” Pine stated earlier than going on to elucidate: “I believe what he stated is – he leaned down – and he stated ‘It’s simply phrases, isn’t it?’. We had this little joke. We’re all jet-lagged, we’re all attempting to reply these questions. Typically while you’re doing these press issues, your mind will get befuddled and also you begin talking gibberish. And we had a joke: ‘It’s simply phrases, man.’”

Following the solid’s look on the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition, representatives for each Kinds and Pine denied the rumours. Pine’s consultant stated on the time, “Simply to be clear, Harry Kinds didn’t spit on Chris Pine. There’s nothing however respect between these two males and any suggestion in any other case is a blatant try and create drama that merely doesn’t exist.”

Don’t Fear Darling – which was directed by Olivia Wilde, who additionally starred within the movie alongside Pine, Kinds and Florence Pugh – obtained a four-star evaluate from NME’s Alex Flood. Flood stated in his evaluate, noting the mountain of gossip surrounding the movie forward of its launch, “It’s, admittedly, fairly laborious to look at Don’t Fear Darling and never take into consideration the accompanying gossip,” concluding with: “What we’re attempting to say is a extremely fairly good movie has been overshadowed needlessly. And that’s an actual disgrace.”