Olivia Wilde was 'too old' to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in 'Wolf of Wall Street'
"Sophisticated" might be a code word in Hollywood -- for "old."
Olivia Wilde, who's 32, joined the Howard Stern show Tuesday and revealed that she was deemed "too old" to be cast in the Martin Scorsese-directed film The Wolf of Wall Street back in 2012. Initially, Wilde's agent told her she was too "sophisticated" for the role of Leonardo DiCaprio's second wife.
DiCaprio is nine years older than Wilde.
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"I had heard for a part that I was too sophisticated," Wilde recalled. "I was like, oh, that sounds nice ... and then I found out later that they actually said 'old.'"
Margot Robbie, 25, was later cast in the role.
Wilde joked on Stern that she wanted to make actors a "translation sheet" for the code words that agents use to spare their clients' feelings. She then explained that she ultimately didn't have to audition for Scorsese's HBO series Vinyl, because he had already seen her audition for Wolf of Wall Street.
Wilde later tweeted about the Stern interview, saying the point of the anecdote was that she later got her "dream job on Vinyl."
She also thinks Margot Robbie "crushed" it in the finished film.
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Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.
