Olivia Wilde admits to ‘losing control’ during unscripted kiss scene with Penélope Cruz in new dark comedy The Invite
The Invite hits cinemas earlier this month (3 July), and fans haven't been able to stop talking about it since.
Directed by Olivia Wilde, the A24 dark comedy stars Wilde alongside Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton.
For anyone who's yet to watch the film, it follows married couple Joe (Rogen) and Angela (Wilde), whose stagnant relationship is disrupted after they meet Hawk (Norton) and renowned sexologist Pína (Cruz).
What begins as an uncomfortable dinner party quickly becomes something much deeper, forcing Joe and Angela to confront the conversations they've spent years avoiding.
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Without giving too much away, the film touches on several adult themes, including ethical non-monogamy, relationship breakdown, bedroom preferences and, of course, sex parties.
At one point in The Invite, Cruz improvised a kiss with Wilde, which ended up making it into the movie's final cut.
"There is a moment in the film where she improvised a kiss with me," the Hollywood A-lister shared during a recent appearance on the Table Manners Podcast.
Sharing her thoughts on the impromptu moment, she added: "I was like, 'Oh, hair in the gate. Do [the scene] again!'"
That's not to say that it didn't catch her off-guard, however.
"I was so shocked when she did it that I actually turned my head and looked directly into the lens, and my camera operator, he was like, 'Olivia!'" Wilde recalled.
"I said, 'Cut, namaste'. For some reason, that was the only thing that came to my mind.
"Everyone was like, 'What?' and I was like, 'I don't know'."
"My mind went blank because I was so struck by this moment," the Don't Worry Darling star added. "I lost control. I was so madly in love with her."
Earlier this month, Wilde and Norton sat down with Tyla to open up about the movie.
Rather than presenting ethical non-monogamy as the film's central message, Wilde explained that she sees it as a mirror held up to more conventional relationships.
"It's so great that now the concept of non-monogamy has been unearthed and the shame has been taken out of it," she said.
"The movie is saying, don't hold yourself back by these assumptions you've made about yourself and your partner and what they think and what they want," Wilde explained to Tyla.
"What happens when you actually open up the conversation? It's not advocating for one way over the other. It's just saying, have you even had the conversation?"
The Invite is available to watch in selected cinemas
Topics: Celebrity, TV And Film, Sex and Relationships, Cinema
Rhiannon Ingle