Olivia Wilde says she is thrilled with her sex-symbol status.
In an interview with FOX News’ Jill Dobson, Wilde admitted that topping Maxim’s Hot 100 List was quite the pleasant surprise.
“It’s kind of great to be able to … harness my power as a sexual being I guess and to be able to be seen as a sexy person and not have to compromise who I am and what I stand for,” she said. “And being able to be considered sexy even though I wear a floor length lab coat in every episode, showing very little skin and spewing out medical terms all day.”
But Wilde temporarily puts her sex status on hold with a gritty new role in the indie film “Fix” directed by her husband Tao Ruspoli. The plot centers around a drug addict whose friends scramble to help him go from jail to rehab in twelve hours.
The film called for some dangerous shoots in challenging locales, but that hardly deterred the adventurous beauty, as she credits her investigative journalist parents with instilling bravery in her.
“I think the greatest thing about their work was that they put their safety on the line,” she said, a move she was happy to recreate for the film.
