LIDO, Venice, Italy – Harry Styles arrived at the Venice Film Festival, greeted every step of the way by an “invasion” of his fans.

Styles attended Monday night’s red carpet world premiere “Don’t Worry Darling,” directed by and co-starring his girlfriend Olivia Wilde.

Florence Pugh, the period film’s endangered heroine Alice, has gone public with her dissatisfaction with the film and its director. She was not expected to show but was given a one-day break from filming “Dune 2” (like “Darling,” a Warner Bros. picture) to just walk the red carpet.

At the afternoon pre-premiere press conference, Wilde took the high road, thanking her profusely (“I’m so grateful she can be here tonight”) and dismissing “the tabloid gossip out there.”

“Darling” is a paranoid thriller set in the 1950s in a cult-like desert community where every husband works and every wife is thrilled to stay home, clean house and make meals. Naturally, there’s something not quite right in this rigorously ordained order.

“We want people to feel being heard and be inspired by a heroine like Alice,” Wilde said, “a revolutionary who’s ready to sacrifice to do what’s right. Those are the superheroes I want to see.”

Styles, low key and thoughtful, dominated the press conference (where he was seated as far from Wilde as possible), which included co-stars Gemma Chan and Chris Pine.

Asked about where acting fits with his music, “I don’t know,” he said. “I feel very lucky to get to do something I love as a job. I feel like being able to explore this has made me feel even luckier to do things I enjoy.

“As for the future? I try to go a day at a time. I enjoy both. It’s all fun and fun to be in this and see how they affect each other. But,” he added, “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about it that much.”

Styles was asked about the fans massed outside, one of whom was holding a sign that said, ‘You’re the only reason to live.’

“Wow,” he began. “I would say that I’m incredibly grateful to the people who have supported me in my life — and friends in particular who have allowed me to be myself and be comfortable and express myself and make the music I want to make. I would hope I can give that same space back to them. But,” he added, “say Hi to her.”

On a shoestring budget, and with the endorsement of the 45th president, Republican Geoff Diehl sailed to a primary victory and on to a November contest with Attorney General Maura Healey.

“I am proud tonight to accept the Republican nomination to be your next governor of Massachusetts,” Diehl said. “Today our hard work got rewarded by a convincing primary win.”

Diehl joined supporters in Weymouth for a victory party Tuesday night and to celebrate the win over his opponent, self-funded Wrentham businessman Chris Doughty, despite the fact the wealthy manufacturing executive dropped $2.4 million of his own fortune on the race.

Diehl’s campaign managed to win with less than $17,000 in the bank at the end and against an ongoing onslaught of television ads and the recent endorsement of his opponent by conservative radio legend and Herald columnist Howie Carr.

The endorsement of Trump, first announced last October, seems to have been enough to carry former state Rep. Diehl through the primary.

That endorsement was essentially the last voters heard from Trump about the race in Massachusetts until late Monday when the former president held a “tele-rally” for Diehl’s campaign, telling voters Doughty was nothing more than a tool of outgoing Gov. Charlie Baker.

“(Diehl is) the only conservative running for Massachusetts governor,” Trump said Monday night. “Geoff is a proven fighter who successfully pushes back on the liberal extremists.”

Trump’s endorsement of Diehl and outspoken distaste for Baker was enough to leave the incumbent with little hope of winning a GOP primary, despite generally being seen as a popular governor. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito announced in December they would not seek re-election to third terms.

The Whitman Republican will have his work cut out for him in the general election. Healey’s war chest approaches $7 million.

Diehl has made a good start with a recent signature drive to add a question to the November ballot, collecting over 100,000 signatures to ask voters whether they would overturn a new law that allows illegal immigrants to get a driver’s license.

“One party rule does not work on Beacon Hill,” Diehl said. “I believe our state should never hand driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Maura Healey, she would just give them out.”

MassGOP chairman Jim Lyons was on hand to congratulate Diehl, who he said was the only candidate that would follow in the footsteps of Trump.