Olivia Wilde Talks Weight Gain After Divorce From Tao Ruspoli
February 3, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Olivia Wilde is back on the promotional trail, presumably for The Words, and covers several February/ March 2012 magazines.
For reasons it’s hard to fathom, Wilde covers Town & Country. That’s an oddity, no? It doesn’t really matter, but it’s interesting considering fellow thin, bland filler Blake Lively gets an Elle cover and leaves arguably more-talented Wilde with the shrapnel (add to that, Wilde covers Angeleno Magazine for which there are also quotes and photos below). Meh.
Although she’s since divorced him, and, yes, they’re friendly but there’s no reason to keep name-dropping and recycling anecdotes, Wilde is STILL talking about her failed marriage to Italian prince Tao Ruspoli. Wilde must be getting her fill while there’s still a little princess shine left. That said, Wilde freely talks about Ruspoli yet won’t confirm the obvious relationship with Jason Sudeikis with whom she’s been caught around New York City several times since New Year’s.
On her new relationship with Jason Sudeikis: Wilde has a boyfriend in the “entertainment world,” but won’t confirm that it’s SNL star Jason Sudeikis. “[He’s] in a much more interesting part of the business than I am. If I have a drink with a guy, it becomes an affair.“
On her weight gain: “I put on a few extra pounds [after the divorce]. But I’m trying to be healthier now.”
More on her divorce: “When you go through a breakup, you lose faith for a while. It makes you feel like such a failure, but I think this whole traumatic year has made me a better actor. And the good thing about getting divorced young, if there is a good thing, is that it makes you realize there’s no schedule in life. It blasts you wide open and frees you to be honest with yourself.”
On how stupid it was to elope at 18-years-old: “The danger is that you evolve over the years and find yourself in a different place.”
On her ex-husband: ‘Tao was, and is, totally involved with his work, and for me there’s nothing sexier than a man who is busy and obsessed with what he’s doing. I guess I saw that in my parents’ marriage. They had real respect for their work and for each other.”
Some name-dropping: Later, as a teen, Wilde remembers having lunch with George Clooney on the set of The Peacemaker, the 1997 movie for which her parents, Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, wrote the screenplay. ”Having George Clooney be the first Hollywood actor I met set a pretty high standard. He’s genuinely sincere, smart, gracious, and I like his politics, too, which always helps.”
More name-dropping: Another influential Hollywood leading man was Wilde’s costar on House, Hugh Laurie. “I spent four years on House and learned so much from Hugh. I owe my entire film career to him. I wouldn’t be anywhere near where I am now without Hugh and the series. It was the first time I’d been allowed to play somebody not defined by my looks.” – via Town & Country.
On her childhood: “I lived in my head. I had a very active imagination. I could play alone in my room for hours and see whole movies in my head. This blurring of the line between reality and fantasy is something I think all kids have, and I was very lucky because my parents encouraged it. They really let me embrace the idiosyncratic, to carve out my own identity based on my own interests.”
On her career so far: “Some people think I’m stupid for taking so many supporting and smaller roles, but I love it. It reminds me of being in a company of actors, where you might be playing Lady Macbeth in one play and a nameless girl in another; you learn so much.” – via Angeleno.
PHOTO CREDIT – TOWN & COUNTRY, ANGELENO MAGAZINE
