Olivia Wilde was deemed “too old” for Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf Of Wall Street
In a story that should seem familiar, because it’s happened before, actress Olivia Wilde, currently 32, says in a new interview that she was told she was “too old” to play the wife of fellow good-looking person Leonardo DiCaprio, currently 41. Now, for a bit of context: Wilde revealed this information on The Howard Stern Show while discussing her role in HBO’s Vinyl, executive produced by Wolf Of Wall Street director Martin Scorsese. She says she didn’t have to audition for Vinyl because she had met with Scorsese about Wolf, which, sure. But here’s something else she said about that same audition:
The funniest thing I heard recently was I had heard for a part that I was too sophisticated. And I was like, ‘Oh, that sounds nice. I like that feedback. I didn’t get the part, but I’m a very sophisticated person.’ And then I found out later that they actually said ‘old.’ I want to make a translation sheet for Hollywood that’s all the feedback your agents give you and what it really means.