Olivia Wilde talking about the backlash she received for dating Harry Styles on ‘Call her Daddy’

Wasn’t the anger because she was still married to Jason Sudekis at the time? The perception was that she was blowing her family up for Styles. Florence Pugh was very unhappy with Wilde and the timeline of her relationship with Styles. One of the reasons Don’t Worry Darling was a trainwreck.

I don’t think people really care that much about her being older. No one cares that Jessica Alba is dating a guy 12 years younger when she separated from her husband. Most people are like good for him.

This feels like some great spin.

Alex’s framing of the question seems to miss that Olivia wasn’t just in a position of power as in she was a powerful person, but she was in a position of power over Harry and his work place. The rumor was that it affected the work environment for everyone on set.

Also in this interview Olivia says she knew her relationship with Jason was over in March 2020, months before Harry was cast, which is interesting that she gives so much more detail. I don’t think you can talk about the backlash without looking at the fact that she and Jason still looked like a couple to the outside world until much later. Some of the outrage came from the belief she cheated.

All that said, I appreciate that she said she and Jason are great co-parents. All other mess aside, good for them for putting differences aside to do their best for the kids.

I won’t know peace until this podcast ceases to exist

All these comments are just sort of proving the point that women are judged much more harshly than men. Everyone trying to justify the extreme reactions instead of acknowledging how disproportionate they were.

First of all, you all are assuming there was cheating, when she herself is claiming that there wasn’t, so where is that coming from?

Second, male directors have been having flings with their female stars ever since the beginning of movie making. If people want to have a discussion about how directors shouldn’t be having flings with their stars and how it’s unprofessional, that’s fair, but you cannot deny that even in the current climate, it’s mostly hand waved away when the director is a man and the star is a woman. People may talk about it in negative terms, but a male director will never receive the absolute vitriol that she did. Can we at least acknowledge that?

Reminder : Jason Sudeikis has the same PR people as Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Justin Baldoni.

For the people who think Sudeikis’ side is automatically the correct side.

This is the Jada pinkett podcast but for white people

This situation always pissed me off so much. Divorces are messy. Yes, Olivia was being a messy, imperfect person. But a movie came out at the exact same time as hers (Amsterdam) that was directed by an actual serial abuser and admitted sexual predator. Yet she got 100x the hate at the time. The rumors about what she might have done were somehow made to be astronomically worse than what the male director actually admitted to doing. That’s the world we live in.

This was such a great moment in celebrity gossip. Florence Pugh strolling into Venice with a drink in her hand. Harry Styles spitting on Chris Pine. “It feels like a movie.” Just banger after banger.

I actually thought there were was a ton of misogyny in how Olivia was treated. Surprised to see the comments on here still dumping on her… the level of vitriol directed towards this lady as soon as she started dating Harry was absolutely insane.

I always just wanted to know why Florence Pugh hated her lol I remember her and Harry were going out during covid that pissed ppl off too. That being said I would hate to date Harry Styles, he has a fanbase that will hate any woman he dates AND on top of that he won’t speak a word to defend you. He doesnt have to come out and call some of them losers, but he could at least be more intentional in his relationships rather than living in the ambiguity that his fans look for to shit on the women. Like post her on you IG or share a story, anything that says “hey this is my gf, deal with it”

Jason Sudekis was/is a client of Melissa Nathan and TAG PR. One of Melissa’s favorite Daily Mail writers, Ruth Styles was the one who got the exclusive from the Nanny.

The backlash/outrage was helped along by TAG planting outrageous stories in the Daily Mail and PageSix.

Ruth Styles was disclosed as one of Melissa Nathan’s preferred “journalists” during the Blake Lively lawsuits.

If you go back and look at her articles with the Daily Mail, she often writes nasty stories about the people Melissa is targeting with her crisis PR. She had plenty to write about Olivia Wilde during that whole thing. I also suspect she’s behind/helped with the whole process server situation where Olivia was served while accepting a directing award.

his fans and really any fans of the 1d boys are wildly misogynistic. and i’m saying this as a 1d/harry fan

I don’t keep up with CHD, how did she become so popular. I’ve seen a few interview reels and she seems like a good interviewer, but how did she get the opportunity to interview celebs back in her early early career 

“Wow… uh… fuckin’… idk… like… fuckin'” I could barely finish this

Olivia looks like Bo Derek