Olivia Wilde believes that the key to a lasting relationship is actively having difficult conversations rather than avoiding them.
While discussing her new film “The Invite”, the 42-year-old actress noted that maintaining long-term partnerships requires active effort beyond initial chemistry. “Relationships are hard,” the actress-filmmaker said in an interview.
“It’s impossible to… It’s not impossible, but it feels impossible, I think, at times, to sustain a relationship with one person for a very long time if you don’t have these difficult conversations that the movie is really about,” she said.
Wilde remains refreshingly candid about her personal life. She recently shared an insight into her high-profile split from fiancé Jason Sudeikis, with whom she co-parents their two children, Otis, 12, and Daisy, 9.
In last month’s episode of “Call Her Daddy”, Wilde admitted that given her own history, it was “no surprise” she made a film about breakups.
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She also revealed the exact moment she knew her relationship with 50-year-old Jason Sudeikis was over: a quiet car ride home from her birthday party in March 2020.
“Jason and I had been having a rough time there for a while,” she shared. “We had a real bumpy, bumpy ride, and we were driving home from my birthday party my friends had had, and I said, ‘Did you give me a birthday present?’ And he said, ‘What would I get you, Olivia? I don’t know you.’ And he wasn’t wrong. We didn’t know each other anymore.”
In “The Invite”, Wilde stars alongside Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton. The comedy revolves around one unforgettable dinner party when a married couple invites their loud upstairs neighbours over but are surprised by a shocking proposition that has them questioning their own relationship.
The project is based on the acclaimed Spanish film “The People Upstairs”, which has also inspired adaptations in Italy, France, Switzerland and South Korea.