Olivia Wilde Says Her Last Movie’s 38% Rotten Tomatoes Score ‘Liberated’ Her to Make ‘The Invite’ and Gives Her Take on the Film’s Ending

The director on making her third feature like a play, pulling a career-best turn from Seth Rogen and keeping 'The Invite' out of streamers' hands.

By Clayton Davis

Clayton Davis

Chief Awards Editor

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Olivia Wilde did almost everything you are not supposed to do to make “The Invite.”

She shot her third feature as a director in a tight 21 days, scene by scene, in story order, which is a luxury most directors give up before the first morning of prep work. She also got to shoot it on film. Not to mention, the entire premise of the film is confined to a single San Francisco apartment, which allowed her to rehearse it like a play, asking her cast to work for nothing for six weeks so the experiment could hold together. 

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