8/31/2023 0 Comments Jpg olivia wilde house character![]() WILDE: Full glam! But I did find that being in solidarity with the actors- particularly on a shoot that’s difficult because it’s long, and we’re in the desert, and it’s a thriller so the emotions are running high, and there’s the COVID of it all-felt important. GYLLENHAAL: Also you were in glam makeup. ![]() They were coming at me doing these necessary but frustrating touch-ups at every second, and I was like, “I need to be at the monitor, I need to be in charge.” I found that to be really hard. He said, “It’s going to be really wonderful to be able to direct from within the scenes.” But what I realized once I started was that all of these men had done this in comfortable shoes, and I swear part of it is that I was in a fucking bustier and heels and a wig. WILDE: Bradley Cooper was a great supporter. It got to the point where it was down to the wire and our casting director was like, “Olivia, why don’t you just do it?” The funny thing is, when I asked director friends how that experience would be, I just happened to ask a bunch of dudes, and they all said, “Oh, it’s so great.” We basically ran out of money and I needed someone who would take a really low salary, but I wanted it to be someone who understood the role. GYLLENHAAL: What was it like acting in the film that you were directing? Go direct, go produce, and then you’ll understand,” and he was right. And Mark said, “Until you direct a movie, you really can’t understand how difficult it is. The movie was very challenging for all these seemingly avoidable reasons, so I’d go back to the trailer and want to talk mad shit. WILDE: I remember making this tiny horror movie with Mark Duplass many years ago, and he was so understanding of this really terrible schedule that we had. And sometimes I look at a schedule as an actress and I’m like, “What? Why are we doing it like this?” I know so much about how the rhythm of a day feels just from having spent so many days on a set. WILDE: But I’ve been in some really bad ones, and now I think, “I did those to learn all the cautionary tales that would help me define myself as a director: how I will never speak to a crew, how I will never speak to actors, how I will never schedule a movie.” All of that comes from those bad experiences. GYLLENHAAL: No, you just don’t know about my shitty movies. ![]() I’ve made like 5,000 times more shitty movies than you have. It helps me navigate any feelings about movies that I don’t think are great when I look back on them, and it helps me understand them within the context of my proxy film school experience. Basically, film school for me was acting in movies. GYLLENHAAL: So, I’m really curious how similar our experiences were. GYLLENHAAL: No, listen, we just hand them the tapes. What if my entire personality changed? Like, I have a slight accent and everything about me changes, do you mention it? Someone who knows what life is like on both sides of the camera is The Lost Daughter director Maggie Gyllenhaal, who met Wilde at a Paris hotel to talk all about it. Today, she’s a full-blown movie star who directed the award-winning comedy Booksmart, and this fall will level up with Don’t Worry Darling, a Slim Aarons–inspired erotic thriller starring Florence Pugh and Wilde’s real-life boyfriend Harry Styles. Olivia Wilde has come a long way from the teenager who played the bratty, bisexual bad girl on The O.C.
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