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The last press tour Olivia Wilde endured was highly controversial and possibly unhygienic. Now, a few years later, Wilde can breathe easier and enjoy her time promoting a project. She told The Louis Theroux Podcast how she was worried she might have some sort of PTSD after what happened during the Don’t Worry Darling press tour, but thankfully The Invite has been a healing experience. “I think it did hurt the film for sure because we didn’t get to have the conversations about what the film was trying to say, which was a shame because so many people worked so hard to make that film in the depths of COVID,” she said of the Don’t Worry Darling drama. “But we never got to talk about that, so I think it hurt the film. It hurt me for sure, because I was so naïve up until that point about the grinder, the garbage disposal that the internet can be. So at this point, I have enough of a perspective on it and that allows me to experience it as a fascinating time. It is interesting to witness a tornado from the inside. But now I look back and I think, Oh, the people were being given headlines without context, and it’s a natural instinct to start trying to fill those in.” At the time, Don’t Worry Darling’s press was focused on her relationship with star Harry Styles, tension with Florence Pugh, and Shia LaBeouf’s departure.
Wilde has even surprised herself by feeling open to doing press again. “Well, it’s interesting because this is my first time back into the press cycle since then and I did wonder, Would this feel quite traumatizing?” she concluded. “I find that the conversations around The Invite are so wonderfully interesting to me, and I’ve actually been allowed to have them. So, it’s been actually kind of healing because I understand that it’s not always a garbage disposal.” Don’t worry, darling, it all works out.
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