![]() ![]() Instead of going full Sarah Polley and rejecting celebritization, both have made decisions in their (public) personal lives that have made it difficult to focus on, well, the work. But also like Jolie, there’s something conflicted about that turn. (Ouch, but - ?) Petersen goes on to liken Wilde to Angelina Jolie, observing that “Directing has allowed Wilde to bend focus away from her star image and towards her skill. ![]() ![]() I’m sure this says more about me and my film taste than it does about her.īut then again? Earlier this week, Anne Helen Petersen published an provocative, slightly corrosive, take on the discourse around Olivia Wilde and this movie in particular, in which she observes that Wilde has always been “distinctly below the radar,” and better at the role of “movie star” than she is at any of the roles she’s played in her films. I had the feeling then that maybe this movie was a kind of accidental, or misjudged, role choice for Wilde and that she had other big movies I’d missed, perhaps from a few years back? But I was wrong, and, looking at her IMDB page today, I don’t think I’ve seen her in anything else since. That is, her star quality seemed outsized relative to the film itself. I recognize her exclusively from the mediocre 2013 movie “Drinking Buddies,” in which I recall thinking she seemed dynamic and beautiful in a way that dwarfed the rest of the movie. I can’t ascertain why I have fallen into it, especially because I barely know who Olivia Wilde is. It is a web of pettiness and pretty faces. As a narrow example, there is a whole sub-rivulet of intrigue linking a leaked conversation between Shia LaBoeuf (originally cast in the movie but apparently fired) and director Olivia Wilde to the seemingly pejoratively-used nickname “Miss Flo,” which Florence Pugh in turn had embroidered on the shirts her makeup team wore as they prepped her for the Venice Film Festival, I suppose as a kind of indirect back-talk? As in, was some of this dreamt up for the purposes of marketing the movie? I find it puzzling and incredible, how seemingly absent handlers and PR people have been across all of these incidents. Cast romances, talent being hired and fired, ill-will between actors, a moment in which Harry Styles purportedly spit on cast mate Chris Pine…?! It’s almost so scandalous that I call rigging. Have you been following the drama around the film “Don’t Worry Darling,” directed by Olivia Wilde? People has published “ A Complete Timeline” if you want to get up to speed, but it is quite the spectacle. ![]()
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