42-year-old American actress Olivia Wilde, that her turning into a director has changed her point of view on Hollywood standard of beauty and aesthetics.
This Friday, on an episode of “The Run-Through with Vogue” Wilde gave her opinion on the maturing and the stresses faced by female actors in the show biz industry.
“It’s interesting because as a director, I now am constantly searching for actresses who can still move their faces, and it’s not easy,” Wilde reported to the head of Vogue’s editorial content Chloe Malle.
She revealed that she doesn’t blame stars for getting cosmetic operations and procedures as she has an idea about the burdens they meet throughout their acting career.
“I am a product of the same machine. I am under the same pressures. I get it” Wilde said while further saying that she wishes the beauty industry would create less intense age-defying procedures than those available at the moment.
“There’s something so medieval about a lot of these things,” she went on explaining.
Women actors experience an unreasonable balancing performance between keeping up their ability to act and meeting Hollywood’s principles around maturing, Wilde said.
“I’ve had the thing of people being like, ‘She looks old and dead and awful’ And you’re like, ‘Fuck! How do you win? It’s impossible,” she added.
Wilde is not the first actor who raised the issue about the unwavering and constant pressure on women from the beauty industry in Hollywood and elsewhere.
During June 2025, “White Lotus” star Carrie Coon reported she is mostly casted as a more mature woman regardless of being in her early 40s.
“My voice is lower, and I don’t have Botox, so I tend to play older than I am. And so I’ve always had a gravitas or some authority,” Coon said.
In April, Nikki Glaser said that once you get financially able to get cosmetic procedures, not getting them feels like a personal loss.
“ It’s like that failure that you feel of anything that you could do that you’re not doing,” Glasser revealed.