It’s a tough life being an up and coming actress. As they tend to have relatively short periods in the limelight (if you look back it’s incredible how many young actresses seemed poised to take over Hollywood, before dropping into virtual obscurity within 18 months), it makes sense to pack a lot of films into that period. However if you’re going to be one of the few who go onto lasting fame, it’s best not to make audiences sick of you.
Since finding success with the TV show house, Olivia Wilde has starred in The Next Three Days, TRON: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens and The Change-Up, and will be in the upcoming Butter, Welcome To People, In Time, Blackbird, The Words and several other movies. It’s a recipe for over-exposure (oddly though, as her movies have generally underperformed, it may help it may help to prevent a sense of fatigue with her), but she’s nevertheless decided to add one more.
Variety reports that she’ll play the lead female role in the indie comedy The Longest Week. The film is about the affluent and aimless Conrad Valmont, who lives a life of leisure in his parents’ prestigious Manhattan hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited and in love, presumably with Wilde. Peter Glanz will direct, based on his 2008 short, A Relationship in Four Days.
Shooting should begin in the next few month.