(Las Vegas) When American actress and director Olivia Wilde received a mysterious envelope on stage in Las Vegas, where she was presenting her next film, many in the crowded room thought it was an element of staged for a joke.
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In fact, she was receiving legal documents sent by her former partner Jason Sudeikis.
“It’s for me, right? asked the actress, interrupted as she unveiled images from her upcoming thriller at CinemaCon on Tuesday. 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 stage by an unknown person.
“Is it a script? OK, understood. Thank you,” the actress asked, glancing 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 on Wednesday that the envelope actually contained legal documents relating to the two children she had with her former boyfriend Jason Sudeikis, star of the TV comedy Ted Lasso.
“Papers have been prepared to establish jurisdiction over the children of Mrs.me Wilde and Mr. Sudeikis,” a source close to Jason Sudeikis told AFP on Wednesday.
“Mr. Sudeikis had no knowledge of when and where this envelope would be delivered, as that was the sole responsibility of the company involved and he would never have tolerated it being delivered the documents in such a way inappropriate,” 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.