Olivia Wilde isn’t worrying about her unscripted kiss with Penelope Cruz—but she is basking in it.
The Don’t Worry Darling star revealed her smooch with the Oscar winner while filming their film The Invite was a surprise, which ultimately made it into the movie’s final cut.
“There is a moment in the film where she improvised a kiss with me,” Wilde shared during a recent appearance on the Table Manners Podcast. And she enjoyed every moment of the impromptu moment, adding, “I was like, ‘Oh, hair in the gate. Do [the scene] again!'”
But the Tron: Legacy star was just as flustered as she was delighted.
“I was so shocked when she did it that I actually turned my head and looked directly into the lens and my camera operator, he was like, ‘Olivia!’” she recalled. “I said, ‘Cut, namaste.’ For some reason that was the only thing that came to my mind.”
“My mind went blank because I was so struck by this moment,” the 42-year-old added. “I lost control. I was so madly in love with her.”
The Invite is a dramedy following Angela (Wilde) and Joe (Seth Rogan) as they attempt to reinvigorate their marriage by hosting a dinner party for their neighbors Pina (Cruz) and Hawk (Edward Norton).
But the night takes a turn after their sexually liberated peers make an unexpected request.
While filming the star-studded movie, Cruz wasn’t the only reason why Wilde felt jitters in front of the camera. After all, it took the Cowboys & Aliens actress—who directed the A24 film—some convincing to put her acting hat back on.
“I was so struck [by the idea] because it hadn’t occurred to me,” she said of her costars urging her to play Angela, a stay-at-home mother in San Francisco. “I weirdly had imposter syndrome about acting in it but, for some reason, not about directing it.”
“At this point, I feel like a much better director than actor,” Wilde added, though she “was so happy I ended up jumping in.”
But The Invite isn’t the only buzz-worthy film hitting the big screen this year. Keep reading for more...
Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and the gang return as the toys take on tech in the form of a frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee.
When a ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl (Milly Alcock), reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.
The little yellow guys return for a new animated adventure set in 1920s Hollywood. Featuring the voices of Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Zoey Deutch, and Jesse Eisenberg.
Disney adds to their live-action remake roster with this reimagining of the 2016 animated hit. Dwayne Johnson reprises his role as demigod Maui and Catherine Laga'aia stars as Moana.
When a couple invites their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Starring Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton.
A seriously all-star cast assembles for director Christopher Nolan's epic take on the ancient Greek poem. Starring Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway and many more.
This new chapter of the superhero franchise finds Peter Parker (Tom Holland) living and crime-fighting alone in New York, having erased himself from the lives and memories of those he loves. Zendaya returns as MJ and Sadie Sink joins the cast.
Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro co-headline as two strangers searching for love in New York City.
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together. Starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway.
After their ship gets caught in a mysterious storm, the PAW Patrol pups crash land on an uncharted tropical island filled with dinosaurs and are thrown into a series of high-stakes, dino-sized rescues.
The witchy Owens sisters return in this sequel to the 1998 classic. Starring Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Lee Pace, Joey King, and Maisie Williams.
Based on the New York Times best-seller, The Love Hypothesis follows Olive (Lili Reinhart), a Ph.D. candidate who impulsively kisses her department's most intimidating professor, Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman). Their mutual need for a fake relationship turns into an experiment in chemistry that might actually solve for love.
Adapted from Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, this psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity.
A companion piece to 2010's The Social Network, writer/director Aaron Sorkin's new film is inspired by the true story of a young Facebook engineer (Mikey Madison) who enlists the help of a Wall Street Journal reporter (Jeremy Allen White) to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) and the social network’s most guarded secrets.
Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Elinor Dashwood in this latest adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel. Also starring Fiona Shaw, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Esmé Creed-Miles.
Based on the beloved Dr. Seuss book, this animated adaptation will feature the voices of Bill Hader, Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang, and America Ferrera.
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This highly anticipated prequel revisits the world of Panem and follows young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games. Also starring Glenn Close, Whitney Peak, Elle Fanning, Ralph Fiennes, Mckenna Grace and Maya Hawke.
Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro reunite alongside Ariana Grande for this new chapter in the Meet the Parents franchise.
This animated coming-of-age saga follows an impulsive teenage girl named Billie (Hailee Steinfeld) who discovers secret magical abilities which hurtle her into a spectacular journey out of suburbia and into a vast witch realm called Hexe.
An insanely star-studded cast of MCU fan-favorites return to our screens in this fifth installment of the Avengers film series.
Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet return to deliver the epic conclusion to director Denis Villeneuve’s trilogy. Also starring Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson, and Javier Bardem.
The core cast (Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Kevin Hart) returns for this final installment of the reboot trilogy about a magical board game.