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^Flicking through the issue earlier today, the Olivia Wilde interview is what caught my eye in the contents.
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Olivia Wilde has never believed in waiting. After graduating from Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, she sidestepped college, took the stage name Wilde (yes, after Oscar), and headed west. At 19, following a six-month courtship, she married movie producer and director Tao Ruspoli, the son of the late Italian prince Dado Ruspoli. She is the daughter of Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, the investigative journalists and documentary-film makers, but she rejected the family trade in favor of a career in front of the camera. Breaking out as the provocative bisexual teenager on the television sensation The O.C. and then landing on another Fox hit series, House, she now finds herself, at 26, in the role of Hollywood’s next hot property. In December she will star opposite Jeff Bridges in TRON: Legacy. The first TRON (1982) revolves around hacker Kevin Flynn (Bridges), who is abducted into the virtual world of the computer and forced to fight his way out. Though it wasn’t a box-office smash, it was a forerunner in special effects and became a cult classic. Bridges reprises his role 28 years later. “I got to spend most of my time with Jeff—just learning from him, watching him, and listening to him,” says Wilde, who plays Quorra, his warrior protector. “Being able to shadow him was a master class in acting, and also in behaving.” After TRON, Wilde will appear with Harrison Ford in director Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens. “What’s great is that I don’t have to play the weeping lady in distress,” she says. “I get to play a pretty cool and powerful woman.” She adds, “I love the horses, I love the guns. For an actor, to be in a Western feels almost like a rite of passage. It’s uniquely American.”
Elle Fanning, the 12-year-old sister of that other seasoned actress Dakota Fanning (who is 16), takes a giant step forward this month in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The movie is set in the Chateau Marmont, on Sunset Boulevard, where everyone from Howard Hughes to Hunter S. Thompson has stayed. The hotel is now a mecca for young actors and hipsters. Stephen Dorff plays Johnny Marco, a bored and overindulged movie star, who gets an unexpected visit from his daughter, Cleo (Fanning). Coppola, stealing from her own experience as a kid traipsing through hotels with her father, Francis Ford Coppola, creates a mood reminiscent of her 2003 feature, Lost in Translation, which got her an Oscar for screenplay. “We had a big rehearsal period,” Elle tells me. “Every day we came to the Chateau, so it sort of felt like my second home.” The bonding process even carried over into real life. “Stephen picked me up from my school, and he came to one of my volleyball games,” she says. “He had these long extensions in for a movie he was doing, so all my friends were looking at this guy, like: Who is that?” There hasn't been a sisters act like this in Hollywood since the days of Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. I ask Elle if she and Dakota give each other career advice. “It's separate. We talk all the time about more normal sister stuff, like: can I borrow this shirt? But she will come out and visit me on location, and I do the same for her. So it's just a part of our lives.”