Kiki Layne is kekekeing all the way to the bank. The Donāt Worry Darling star wrote in an Instagram caption that even though she was cut from āmost of the movieā along with Ariāel Stachel, that didnāt stop them from finding love and cashing checks from Warner Bros. āThe best thing about #DontWorryDarling is that I was lucky enough to meet @arielstachel,ā Layne hard-launched her man. āThey cut us from most of the movie, but we thriving in real life. šš,ā she wrote without giving us any additional thoughts on the production or the film itself. Layneās hashtags, though, succinctly summed up her feelings: ā#GotMyCheck #GotMyMan #EverythingHappensforaReason.ā
The Stepford Wivesāinspired psychological thriller tells the story of Alice, a 1950s housewife who slowly realizes thereās something amiss in her eerily perfect town. Although she drives much of the plot forward, Layneās character is abandoned halfway through, while Stachel, who plays her husband, is onscreen for only a couple of minutes. In separate Instagram Stories, the actor continued to share posts about her and Stachelās scenes hitting the cutting-room floor. First, she reposted her booās reel, a video originally posted on TikTok consisting of Stachel dancing in front of tweets that criticize his lack of screen time with the caption, āWhen you end up on the cutting room floor. Go see Donāt Worry Darling.ā (One especially passionate tweet read, āI can overlook a movie being bad, but I cannot overlook a movie being bad and making Ariāel Stachel a glorified extra. The man has a Tony!!!!! give him more than two lines Olivia Wilde!!!!ā) Then she shared a picture of her favorite costume, a red gown and Bulgari-blinged look that didnāt make it into the filmās final cut.
āMy love,ā Stachel commented on Layneās post. āYou are a queen and your talent shines so bright. I was thirsty then and Iām thirsty now.ā A few hours before Layneās post, he shared his own cute flicks ā one being a behind-the-scenes photo of him and Layne in costume ā saying Layne was his āfavorite partā of his experience on set. āThis woman did phenomenal work and I was thirsty the second I met her,ā he wrote. Another on-set romance for the tabloids history books. The real drama in Donāt Worry Darling was the romance made along the way.