Podbit · Call Her Daddy
On her birthday, March 10, 2020, Wilde asked Jason Sudeikis for a birthday present and he told her he didn't know her anymore. Two days later, COVID lockdown began, trapping them in the same house as they tried to figure out what came next. That conversation was the real end.
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Cooper asks Wilde to break down the film's treatment of sex, particularly the scene where Seth Rogen's character says his wife is 'supposed to be attracted to him' without any participation in earning that attraction. Wilde says that line made the veins pop in her neck because it captures a fundamental entitlement: expecting desire without doing the work to cultivate it. She and Rogen both felt strongly during filming that sex matters — it's the primary venue for nonverbal trust, vulnerability, and communication in a relationship [1] — Olivia Wilde "People who don't have sex and say, well, we don't have sex, but we have like a really healthy relationship. I call bullshit on it." 1:26:34 . If a couple has stopped having sex, the question isn't about frequency but about what deeper conversation is being avoided. She calls bullshit on the 'healthy but sexless' claim, while clarifying she's not prescribing a Cosmo quiz number of times per month.
Jason Sudeikis was photographed on a beach in Costa Rica on Thanksgiving — the press loved it. Wilde knew that if she had been the one photographed away from the kids on a national holiday, she would have faced calls for her to lose custody. That asymmetry is the double standard made concrete.
Wilde and Jason Sudeikis's relationship effectively ended on her birthday, March 10, 2020, when he said 'I don't know you anymore,' followed just two days later by the COVID lockdown.
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