Olivia Wilde Shares How Turning 40 Influenced I Want Your Sex Performance

Olivia Wilde isn’t worrying about aging out of Hollywood, darling. 

The Don’t Worry Darling director, 42, revealed that entering a new decade was the catalyst that pushed her to tackle her steamy performance in her upcoming film I Want Your Sex.

“The spring right before this movie I turned 40 and I felt great and I was like, ‘Hell, yeah,’” Wilde exclusively told E! News’ Will Marfuggi at the July 4 premiere of I Want Your Sex. “‘Let’s go make this movie. This’ll be fun.’”

In the racy film, which hits theaters July 31, Wilde plays renowned artist Erika Tracy, who recruits a fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) to become her sexual muse. 

“I love the idea of reclaiming empowered sexuality,” Wilde explained of her performance, “and the idea of like you get older and you get better. And it was such a fun way to express that. It was great.”

“Hopefully, this movie is suggesting you should try everything,” she added. “You should be exploring your whole life and if you do that then by the time you get to your 40s you’ve lived some cool lives.”

As she put it, “You gotta have a story.”