When Penelope Cruz impromptuly kissed Olivia Wilde during the filming of The Invite, the actress was said to have “blacked out”.
The “OC” alum recently told listeners of the “Table Manners” podcast that he was “so shocked” by the moment he “turned his head and looked directly into the lens” in the film’s final cut.
The 42-year-old remembers that when the photographer told her her name, “for some reason” she responded, “Cut. Namaste!”
“That’s all I could think of: ‘Namaste,'” Wilde explained. And everyone was like, “What?” And I was like, “I don’t know.”
“I was so shocked by this moment that my mind went blank,” the actress continued. “I lost control. I became obsessed with her.”
When her “Table Manners” co-host called Cruise, 52, “the sexiest woman in the world” on the July 8 episode, Wilde joked, “I thought, ‘Oh! My hair’s stuck in the gate. Do[that scene]again!'”
Last month, Wilde told Cruise in an interview with Fandango that he couldn’t “probably distance himself” from her in one scene.
She emphasized “the way you touch your hair and the way you touch things around you,” adding, “There are some shots in the movie where the camera is staring at you the whole time, and I was like, ‘Sorry, Seth.'” I’m like, “She’s too funny.” ”
Wilde, who played Angela, initially objected to Cruise’s decision to wear a platinum blonde wig to play Pina.
“[Cruz]said, ‘I need that, because in order to change my personality, I need to physically step away from myself,'” Wilde told Au Review last week. “The moment she put on the wig, she completely changed.”
She credited her co-stars with “layering different elements” into their roles “like lasagna.”
The film depicts Angela and her husband Joe, played by Seth Rogen, being proposed to by Pina and Hawk, played by Edward Norton.
Among other things, Wilde directed this touching comedy, and it was her co-stars who encouraged her to play Angela.
“I was so shocked[by the idea]because I hadn’t thought of it,” she told “Table Manners” earlier this month. “Oddly enough, I had a bit of impostor syndrome about being in this film, but somehow not about directing it.
“I feel like I’m a much better director than I am an actor at this point,” Wilde added. “I was so happy that I jumped in.”
