Hollywood star Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde is the star of the series "House Doctor", an actress who conquered the big screen in the sequel to the "Throne" and the fantastic drama "Time" with Justin Timberlake, most recently she announced an engagement with Jason Sudeykis, the star of the cult sketch show "Saturday Night Live" .

Wilde has just finished filming in "The Third Person" with Lyme Nilsson, and very soon she will be seen in Ron Howard's Race - the film about the legendary confrontation of the champions of Formula 1 by James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Nicky Lauda (Daniel Brühl) . Olivia plays the model Susie Miller, who married Hunt, but was more famous for taking Richard Sertona away from Elizabeth Taylor. Despite the excitement surrounding the upcoming large-scale premiere, Wilde is surprisingly calm and serene: "I feel quite comfortable," she confesses. "I can hardly be called a neurotic." And it seems that Olivia does not seem to be touching things that many bring to nervous breakdowns: not always the reasonable requirements and standards of Hollywood, the stress and risk of relations with a colleague in the actor's shop, the horror of getting into the paparazzi lens, having jumped in the morning in a cafe in the old training. From all these horror stories she waves off with a smile: "It does not seem to me that at every corner I am trapped by enemy forces, who dream of destroying my life. Basically I live the present and I know how to enjoy it. "

Present (as, indeed, the future) Wilde, apparently, will flow on the East Coast, next to Jason. On the way, a series of paintings with her participation, among which the black comedy "Chemistry and Life", where Olivia plays the captured wife of Ray Liotta and the mistress of Sam Rockwell, and the fantastic melodrama of Spike Jops "She" with Emm Adams and Rooney Mara, and New York, as you know, an excellent place to live if your film career is on the rise. Before Wilde and Sudeikis moved to the West Village last year, Olivia mostly lived in California. On the Hollywood Hills, she settled at age 18, immediately after graduation from the super-prestigious Philipps Academy in Andover, for the actor's dream of postponing admission to college. Learning that now Olivia is changing her place of residence because of love, some of her agents called this decision a professional suicide. But Wilde was always stubborn, independent and listened only to her heart and inner voice.

However, the scene of the landscape outside the window is only the result of radical internal changes. Wilde decided that it was time to slow down. Not as an actress, writer or producer, but as a person. After ten years playing with the squirrel in the wheel, since she got a role in the series "O. S. - Lonely Hearts" and married the Italian director of the royal bloods, Tao Raspoli (she was 18, and they parted in 2011), Olivia finally finally ready to afford a short respite. "Starting a career, I was so young and I knew so little about my business that I missed a lot of opportunities," she says. "I tried to work as much as possible and as soon as possible, as if I was going to die before twenty-five." Then this "painful and persistent thirst" absorbed her without a trace. Now, at 29, she wants to live for today, and not to rush headlong for tomorrow.

What kind of life does she want to see? The answer may seem unexpected: Wilde is attracted to documentary films and social activities. These worthy aspirations seem to be laid in Olivia's DNA. After all, her parents are well-known journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, who throughout their career are engaged in covering political problems and social injustice. It's no wonder that their daughter (who took the surname of one of her favorite writers, Oscar Wilde) is one of the activists of the Artists for Peace and Justice project, a charitable initiative that helped Haiti get its first high school with free education.

And in 2001 she went to Kenya to star in an episode of the 4-hour documentary "Half the Sky" about the lives of women in different parts of the world. "I want to do this to tell other people's stories," says Olivia, "I was brought up by parents who were always convinced that people can be inspired by the truth, so I believe in the power of documentary films." In addition, Wilde wants to grow and develop as a writer - she still had too little time to write.

Hardly anyone who knows Olvia well will doubt that she will achieve hers here. In four years she declared to everyone and everyone - for example, Miku Jaeger and other celebrities who came to her parents and Georgetown for a home dinner that wants to become an actress, and subsequently never folded from the chosen path. As a teenager, she went into writing plays and acting, earning a reputation as a rebel in an aristocratic Andover. When the girl was 13, her mother asked her good friend Steven Spielberg for her daughter's autograph. The director added to the signature the advice, which is still hanging over Olivia's desk: "If you want to be a doctor, think first, then do it. If you want to be in show business, first do, then think. "

Now it is difficult to believe, but the face of Revlin and the designer's darling has been complex for a long time about her appearance. With a height of 171 cm, Olivia envied the elegant model figure of her sister Chloe. "I have a torso as a tall woman, and the lower part of my body is like a miniature one, and what, tell me, was the goal pursued by evolution when it created me?" - laughs Wilde. For years, she wore a bang to hide her "endless forehead." And in the first class at lunch, the children surrounded little Olivia while she was eating a sandwich, and with malicious curiosity watched how her square jaws move, from which today the whole world is going crazy.

However, people noticed in her appearance not only flaws. "I was always told that I have beautiful eyes, and in time I learned to emphasize this." Her sense of style also became more mature. Light air dresses, with which she did not leave, while she lived in California, Olivia now prefers the architectural outfits from Gucci, Michael Kors and Rick Owens: "I like clothes that emit courage and strength."

Yes, in her wardrobe sexual and daring things have been added, but in everything that concerns personal attachments, Wilde is an incorrigible romantic. However, mindful of the first unfortunate experience, when they from Spotley got engaged at the Burning Man Festival shortly after their acquaintance, and then secretly got married in an old school bus, this time the actress does not hurry to the crown. Announcing the engagement with Sudeikis, she tries to stretch the pleasure.

And the engagement gave her an opportunity to understand what it means to maintain relations before the cameras' lenses - all stellar couples pass through this test. "In this business, peaks, recessions and periods of stagnation inevitably alternate. Every time you see how couples break up because of these differences, just the heart breaks, "Olivia admits. - All the time you are tormented by the question: will he love me if I'm not so successful? Maybe, our love will be killed by professional jealousy? "Wilde, however, is confident that she will manage:" I know there will come times when Jason will have more work than me. But it only makes me happy! I rejoice, imagining what heights he will reach, what potential is in it. "

The fact that he and Sudeikis work in different genres, Olivia considers luck: "He helped me understand the comedy that I always loved, and I helped him to take a fresh look at the action and drama." A few months ago, they together performed with improvised comedy sketches on the stage of the famous Chicago club Second City - an experience that Wilde reckons to the most memorable in his life. And by the way, it was Sudeikis who persuaded Olivia to appear in "Sobulniki" with Anna Kendrick. This indie film belongs to the genre of "mamblecore": deliberately low budget and emphasis on naturalistic dialogues. Virtually all the scenes in it - pure improvisation (including the episode of bathing naked, spontaneously proposed by Wild herself).

"I perfectly understand that this is one of the most luxurious periods of my life, I have never been so happy and so open to happiness." I will try to keep this feeling forever. "