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Olivia Wilde served legal papers live on stage
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Onstage mystery: United States director and actress Olivia Wilde holds an envelope marked "Personal and Confidential" as she speaks onstage during the Warner Bros. Pictures "The Big Picture" presentation on Tuesday, during CinemaCon 2022 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AFP/Valerie Macon)
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hen Olivia Wilde was handed a mysterious envelope onstage midway through her presentation before a packed Las Vegas audience on Tuesday, many assumed it was a set-up for an elaborate joke.
Instead, she was getting served legal papers from her ex-partner, Jason Sudeikis.
"This is for me, right?" asked Wilde, who was interrupted while introducing footage from her upcoming thriller, Don't Worry Darling, during Warner Bros' presentation at CinemaCon, the annual industry gathering of movie theaters.
"Very mysterious. I'm going to open it now," she said, opening the envelope marked "Personal and Confidential" after it was slid calmly onto the stage by an unknown person.
Glancing at its contents, she asked, "Is this a script? OK, got it. Thank you," before returning to her description of Don't Worry Darling, hardly missing a beat.
The envelope was never referred to again during the presentation, prompting speculation that somebody had tried to slip a new screenplay to the actor-director.
But it emerged on Wednesday that the document held legal papers concerning Wilde’s two children with her former partner Sudeikis, star of the television comedy, Ted Lasso.
"Papers were drawn up to establish jurisdiction relating to the children of Ms. Wilde and Mr. Sudeikis," a source close to Sudeikis told AFP on Wednesday.
"Mr. Sudeikis had no prior knowledge of the time or place that the envelope would have been delivered, as this would solely be up to the process service company involved, and he would never condone her being served in such an inappropriate manner."
Wilde's representatives did not respond to a request for comment.
Don't Worry Darling, a twisty, erotic thriller inspired by The Truman Show and Inception, stars Harry Styles, who is currently dating Wilde.
