Last year, then-37 year old Maggie Gyllenhaal revealed something absolutely awful about the casting process. You see, she was told that at her age, she was “too old” to play the lover of a 55-year-old leading man: “I’m 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me.” While May-December romance seems to only go one way in Hollywood, I really didn’t think it applied to those actresses who are sort of known for being young and beautiful. Olivia Wilde is currently 32. Back in 2012, director Martin Scorsese was looking for an actress to play Jordan Belfort’s wife in The Wolf of Wall Street, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. It was a good part for an actress, and a lot of women read for the role. Olivia would have been 27 or 28 at the time, and she read for the part. And she was turned down because she was TOO OLD. The role eventually went to Margot Robbie, who was 22-23 at the time.

Sophisticated, yes. But old?! Olivia Wilde revealed to Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show on Tuesday, March 15, that she was considered too old to play the role of Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in 2013′s The Wolf of Wall Street.

“The funniest thing I heard recently was, I had heard for a part that I was too sophisticated,” Wilde, 32, revealed to Stern. “I thought, ‘Oh, that sounds nice. I like that feedback. I didn’t get the part but I’m a very sophisticated person.’”

“Sophisticated,” apparently, has an underlying meaning in Hollywood. “Then I found out later they actually said ‘old,’” the Vinyl actress recalled with a laugh. “I had auditioned unsuccessfully for Wolf of Wall Street. That was the one I was too old for.”

The part of Jordan Belfort’s second wife, Naomi Lapaglia, ultimately went to Australian bombshell Margot Robbie, who was praised for her portrayal of the Brooklyn native.

“I thought she kicked so much ass in that movie,” Wilde said of the 25-year-old actress.

[From Us Weekly]

Wilde also said that everything worked out in the end because Scorsese did like her and he kept her in mind for a show he executive produces: Vinyl, the show about a music company in the ‘70s. But still… 27/28 was “too old”? O RLY? At that time, Leo would have been 38, but as we know, Leo is allowed to be his age while all of his girlfriends/lovers (on screen and off) have a strict age cutoff: they cannot be older than 25. I wonder if it was Leo or Scorsese who thought Olivia was “too old.”

Olivia also told Howard Stern about how Jason Sudeikis ghosted her after they first met – he apparently got her number and then he didn’t call her for a month. That’s a stupid power move, and such a stupid “game” to play. You can read more about that here.

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