Olivia Wilde recounted that in the Irish fishing village her family came from, fishermen traditionally didn't learn to swim — the philosophy being that if the ocean wanted you, it would take you.
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Olivia spent every school holiday in Ireland and says she felt 'just as Irish as American' growing up. She holds triple citizenship — British, Irish, and American — though she laughs off British as 'don't brag.' Her description of acting school in Dublin is instructive: Irish acting culture treats performance as a tradesman's craft, not stardom. You do the play, then have a drink with the cast afterwards. From her family's coastal village, she recounts the tradition of fishermen not learning to swim — if the ocean wanted you, it would take you — as an emblem of the Irish respect for things more powerful than oneself. She connects this to the chip-on-the-shoulder survivalism she also sees in Australian culture.
In the Irish fishing village Olivia Wilde's family came from, fishermen didn't learn to swim — if the ocean wanted you, it would take you. That fatalistic humility toward forces bigger than yourself became one of her core philosophies.
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