![]() ![]() I mean, there’s a reason I left that relationship.” But I had a job to do I’m not easily distracted.” She adds, “But, you know, sadly, it was not something that was entirely surprising to me. “To try to sabotage that was really vicious. “I hated that this nastiness distracted from the work of so many different people and the studio that I was up there representing,” she says. She didn’t miss a beat when she was interrupted by the mysterious envelope - she just carried on with her presentation. The hurdles that you had to jump through to get into that room with several badges, plus special COVID tests that had to be taken days in advance, which gave you wristbands that were necessary to gain access to the event - this was something that required forethought.”ĬinemaCon was supposed to be a professional milestone for Wilde, who was about to screen footage from her movie. There was a huge breach in security, which is really scary. ![]() “In any other workplace, it would be seen as an attack. “It was my workplace,” Wilde says, referring to the CinemaCon incident without naming Sudeikis, with whom she was in a relationship from 2011 to 2020. It’s also linked to an incident in April at CinemaCon where Wilde was served custody papers from her former fiancé, “Ted Lasso” actor Jason Sudeikis, as she took the stage in Las Vegas to promote the movie to exhibitors.Īt the time, Sudeikis said in a statement that he had “no prior knowledge” of the ambush and “would never condone her being served in such an inappropriate manner.” Since then, a judge has granted Wilde’s request to dismiss Sudeikis’ petition, which asked for Otis and Daisy to eventually reside with him in New York. It’s the project where Wilde met Styles, now her boyfriend. ![]() I really feel, at this point, that I have earned the right to say I’m a director.”Īnd for better or worse, “Don’t Worry Darling” has generated no shortage of headlines. It struck enough of a nerve of the cultural zeitgeist that I was allowed to have another opportunity. “Fewer people will invest in the second film of a woman than a man,” she says. “It’s harder for women to get a second chance at directing,” Wilde says, recognizing that “Booksmart” was a critical triumph but by no means a box office smash, making $25 million on a $6 million budget. Showing up alone with no security, she doesn’t seem like someone who’s constantly dodging paparazzi on the cobblestone streets of London - where she lives with her two children, Otis, 8, and Daisy, 5 - being one of the most talked-about celebrities of the moment. Without makeup, except a smudge of leftover eyeliner, Wilde looks more like a film student than one of Hollywood’s up-and-coming directors. “People were looking at me in the bathroom like I probably shouldn’t be here,” says Wilde, seated at a back corner table of the tearoom where she goes unnoticed amid the sea of pastel-adorned guests in pumps and pearls. ![]() On this July afternoon, she has come to Claridge’s directly from a pottery class, with dried clay on her arms when she arrives. Wilde, whose acting credits include everything from the medical drama “House” to Ron Howard’s “Rush” and Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell,” is wearing a black T-shirt, baggy jeans and scuffed-up Converse low tops. My early conversations with the cast were all about how the audience has to buy into the fantasy.” I think it’s integral to the story itself and how the audience is meant to connect to them. “The impractical nature of their sex speaks to their ferocious desire for one another. “It’s all about immediacy and extreme passion for one another,” Wilde says of the film’s complicated central relationship. Wilde, 38, sees the world through a post-feminist prism, and the women in her films drive action on their own, without the help of men. “Why are we more comfortable with female pleasure when it’s two women on film? In hetero sex scenes in film, the focus on men as the recipients of pleasure is almost ubiquitous.” “Female pleasure, the best versions of it that you see nowadays, are in queer films,” Wilde says. ![]()
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