When American actress and director Olivia Wilde received a mysterious envelope onstage at the CinemaCon festival in Las Vegas, where she was presenting her next film, many in the crowded room thought it was a on stage for a joke.
In fact, she was receiving legal documents sent by her former partner Jason Sudeikis.
“It’s for me, is it?”, the actress asked, interrupted as she unveiled Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at the CinemaCon festival images of his next thriller Don’t Worry Darling. “Very mysterious. I will open it now”, she added. The envelope, marked “personal and confidential”, had been calmly slipped onto the scene by an unknown person.
“Is it a script? OK, got it. Thanks”, asked the actress, taking a look at the contents of the envelope. She then resumed her presentation without a hitch, without any reference to this envelope and many then thought that it was about a new project thus transmitted to Olivia Wilde.
But it emerged the next day that this envelope actually contained legal documents relating to the two children she has with her former boyfriend Jason Sudeikis, star of the TV comedy Ted Lasso.
“Papers have been prepared to establish jurisdiction over the children of Ms. Wilde and Mr. Sudeikis”, a source close to Jason Sudeikis said on Wednesday. “Mr. Sudeikis had no knowledge of when and where this envelope would be delivered as that was solely the responsibility of the company involved and he would never have tolerated her being delivered the documents in such an inappropriate manner. “, according to this source.
No reaction was available from representatives of Olivia Wilde.
Don’t Worry Darling is a psychological thriller inspired by Truman Show and D’Inception in which plays the British singer and actor Harry Styles, the current boyfriend of Olivia Wilde.