The Odyssey Just Broke Hollywood's Rules & A Huge Podcast Is In Crisis
episodePreviously titled “Why Hollywood Is Snubbing Influencers & The 'Call Her Daddy' PR Crisis Continues” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What chaos surrounded Taylor Swift's wedding?
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From Mamma Mia, welcome to The Spill, your daily pop culture fix. My name's Manisha Aswaran, I'm the executive producer of The Spill, and today I'm joined by... Tina Provis. And today we are talking about an interesting marketing decision that Universal has made when it comes to the biggest movie of the year, I would pretty much say, The Odyssey. It's shutting influencers out of having the first say on the movie, so we're going to get Tina's buy-in on that. We're also going to get into the latest of the Alex Cooper Call Her Daddy drama, but first... I feel like the only thing anyone really cares about still since the weekend is Taylor Swift's wedding. It's all through my news feed, like every second post.
And I haven't seen you since then. No, no. I've been glued to my phone. That's where I've been. You haven't seen me. I'm just reading all the news on Taylor Swift. Just waiting for the dress to drop.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm waiting. So we've talked a lot about the wedding on the podcast, but we thought we would run through a few of the things that have come out just, you know, overnight, update. There's still little tidbits that are leaking. So what have you been seeing on your feeds? It's so funny. It's like when you're in high school and there's like a big party over the weekend and you come to school and there's like all the drama that's unfolding. That's how I feel this news is like drip feeding out. So something that I have been following closely is the breakup news. conspiracy theories around Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff. So Jack actually showed up by himself with his sister, but not with his wife, Margaret.
So then now we have this swirling narrative around it. According to the reports online, it seems quite innocent, apparently Margaret couldn't make the wedding due to her shooting schedule. She was in Arkansas filming her upcoming film, Kingsnake. But the fans are questioning it because apparently filming actually wrapped like a month earlier. And there's also been some celebrity gossip from the page, Dumas, that has alleged that she was spotted in Woodstock in New York on the 2nd of July and then later nearby in Kingston on the 4th of July. Yes, I saw that comment. It was like a comment that Demois left saying she was out to dinner with a friend and her dog the night of the wedding. But I'm like that, she wouldn't do that.
Like that would be sending such a clear message of like we are having a feud.
Why are influencers being shut out of The Odyssey's marketing?
And imagine like she had some reason to tailor. She's gone, you know, I can't come, I'm shooting. And then that comes out. Yeah, I don't know. I think, do you reckon, I think it was just because of the movie. It would be strange because Taylor actually attended Jack and Margaret's wedding back in 2023. So it feels strange that she wouldn't be there until we have some kind of photo trail at the moment. It does feel like it's a bit of like an internet rumour swirling around. Like show me the evidence at this point. I want to see a photo of her on set with a date stamp so I know she was at work. Oh, wow. You need, like, concrete.
It's like a sick leave set. Yeah.
What are the latest updates on the Call Her Daddy controversy?
And why you weren't there. But I do feel like with these actors, because there's a few of them, one of the other ones that's come out of why he wasn't there, Robert Pattinson spoke about that at the premiere for The Odyssey at the red carpet, he was asked, because obviously his partner, Suki Waterhouse, was at the wedding. And his reason was that, you know, he was locked into filming The Batman Part II. So fair.
Yeah.
Yeah, fair enough. And, you know, coverage with that is pretty consistent. It does look like he was on set. But part of me feels like if you are these really big stars like Robert Pattinson, Margaret Qualley, surely they can do the schedule around you.
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