Olivia Wilde Covers Allure Magazine October 2011
September 16, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Olivia Wilde covers Allure Magazine October 2011… because she, Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake co-star in a movie together – In Time. It’s the same film Timberlake’s promoting in Esquire. And it’s the same movie he and Seyfried promote in W Magazine. Because a Logan’s Run-derivative movie can’t sell itself no matter the number of pretty, mediocre actors you hire.
Wilde is one of those actresses who’s not stretched during interviews. Especially post-divorce. She’s asked about a very small array of subjects that must be as boring to answer as they are to read about. She’s asked about the growing listicle of guys with whom she’s reportedly sleeping. She’s asked about her weight gain after her divorce. And the wisdom of eloping at 18-years-old.
On her rumoured sleeping around: “Isn’t that hilarious? I mean, in order to be dating all the people they think I am, I’d need four vaginas!” the actress says. “It’s impossible!”
On eloping at 18-years-old and then divorcing in her 20s: It was “the most difficult thing I’ve ever dealt with.” However, she doesn’t seem to have regrets. “I got married at a very young age, so I sort of jumped into a stage of adulthood prematurely,” she says. “I learned quite a lot.’
On her In Time role: “We were rehearsing, and I remember the director saying, ‘No, stop! It looks like you’re going to make out… Nope, that looks like you’re going to make out, too.’ We were like, ‘Oh, God,’” she says. “I had to find a way to think of him as my son.” In the end, Wilde tried to defuse any sexual tension by picturing Timberlake as a toddler. “He’s got these incredible blue eyes, so I imagined him as a little baby Justin. And he was able to transfer a lot of his feelings about his mom onto me,’ she says. ‘We’re both total acting nerds.”
On how a casting agent told her to be trampier if she wanted roles: “She was like, ‘A, people don’t wear turtlenecks here. B, why are you not showing any skin?’ And I said, ‘I’m not going to sell my body to get a role; it’s about the acting.’” Wilde laughs at her own naïveté. “She was this very powerful, wise 60-year-old woman, but at the same time aware of how this business works. And she’s like, ‘Sex sells. Go put on a tank top.’”
On going too far to fit in: “I went through this kind of A Star is Born transformation, where they made my hair very blonde, and I got very skinny, and I was like, ‘And now, I fit the mold!” she says. “If I could tell young actresses anything, it would be to just be yourself through and through. I mean, really be hard-core about sticking to your identity, because what makes you unusual is what’s going to assure your success.”
On her weight gain: “I gained a lot of weight after my divorce, and there was this sense of, ‘Wait, hold on, you don’t look like you did before. Are you going to be up for the same roles? Do you need to be put in some sort of weird labor camp to lose all your weight?’”
On not liking being single: ” find that commitment is very relaxing, and the process of searching for a partner in life inevitably keeps you at this level of insecurity,’ she says. ‘You’re like this heat-seeking missile, just trying to figure out where to plug in.” – via Allure Magazine.
PHOTO CREDIT – ALLURE MAGAZINE
