Harry Styles had to spend THREE HOURS in makeup getting his tattoos covered up

Harry Styles is a handsome and debonair leading man in the film Don’t Worry Darling. 

However, it took an enormous amount of work to prepare him for the frank love scenes with screen wife Florence Pugh — because he has so many tattoos.

The former One Direction star, who now has a huge career as a solo musical artist, has 60 of them: covering his arms, legs and torso.

Make-up artists first had to colour-correct each design, sponging red pigment over the black. 

Then they were covered in green pigment, followed by powder to seal. Finally, a cream foundation was applied, to cover them. 

The whole process took around three hours.

Jason Collins is credited with special make-up effects on the film — he is also the man who supervised Lily James’s transformation into Pamela Anderson for Pam & Tommy, using prosthetics and cosmetics.

Natural: The former One Direction star, who now has a huge career as a solo musical artist, has 60 tattoos: covering his arms, legs and torso (pictured without them covered in a music video)

Don’t Worry Darling, directed by Styles’s girlfriend Olivia Wilde, is set in the 1950s, in a suburban Utopia where the men work on the ‘Victory Project’ and their wives don’t ask too many questions about what, exactly, that is.

It will premiere at the Venice Film Festival later this month.

It comes as Florence is said to be unhappy with her Don’t Worry Darling co-star and director Olivia Wilde as it’s claimed she ‘hooked up’ with Harry while engaged to Jason Sudeikis.

Difficult: It took an enormous amount of work to prepare him for the frank love scenes with screen wife Florence Pugh — because he has so many tattoos (pictured with Florence) 

Harry, 28, and Florence, 26, play a married couple in the sexually charged movie, which tells the story of a 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community. Olivia appears as a character called Bunny.

Olivia, 38, and Jason, 46, got engaged in 2012 and share children Otis, eight, and Daisy, five.

But there is some confusion over timings because Olivia and the Ted Lasso star were thought to have split in November 2020. 

Olivia made headlines with Harry in January 2021, when they were photographed holding hands at his manager’s wedding. 

Plot: Don’t Worry Darling, directed by Styles’s girlfriend Olivia Wilde, is set in the 1950s, in a suburban Utopia where the men work on the ‘Victory Project’ and their wives don’t ask too many questions about what, exactly, that is

While it’s never been confirmed that Olivia and Harry’s romance began while she was still engaged to Jason, Page Six have reported that Florence has fallen out with Olivia over the coupling. 

An insider told the site: ‘Flo seeing Olivia and Harry all over each other on set did not go down well as Olivia was still with Jason when she first hooked up with Harry.’

At the time, sources claimed the relationship with Harry was the main reason for the split.

One insider told the site that the affair with Harry had been ongoing for a month, leaving Jason distraught. 

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The insider added this week: ‘Jason and the kids visited Olivia on set at the beginning a few times, so I think this all made people feel a little uncomfortable.’ 

MailOnline contacted a spokesperson for Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles and Jason Sudeikis for comment at the time. 

Fans have noticed that Florence has not praised Olivia as a director on the project.  

She is said to have failed to ‘like’ a post in which Wilde included the full official trailer for Don’t Worry Darling last week. 

Yet Olivia shared a picture of Pugh and wrote: ‘Watching this woman work was such a f–king thrill! Cannot wait to show you more. @florencepugh@dontworrydarling.’

Florence didn’t respond but that same day posted a trailer for another new project, Oppenheimer.’

One fan wrote: ‘The way Florence Pugh has yet to post about don’t worry darling even though there are two trailers out for it and yet she’ll post about every single other project that she’s doing right now like what did Olivia Wilde do ????’

However, a source told Page Six Florence was already scheduled to post about Oppenheimer that day for some specific reason and it had nothing to do with a response to Olivia

Olivia and Harry will soon step on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival for the world premiere of the new movie and no doubt all eyes will be on them.

Rift? It comes as Florence is said to be unhappy with her Don’t Worry Darling co-star and director Olivia Wilde (right) as it’s claimed she ‘hooked up’ with Harry (left) while engaged to Jason Sudeikis