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Olivia Wilde Talks Choosing Art Over Audience Approval: “I Don’t Make Movies So People Love Them”

The Hollywood actor-turned-helmer told the Red Sea Film Festival directors have to choose between being a celebrity or an artist.

Hollywood star Olivia Wilde warns social media and the embrace of fame pose an existential threat to filmmaking as a storytelling art. Because of social media, it’s becoming even more combined to something that is quite dangerous for the art form.,” Wilde said while taking part in an informal conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival on Saturday. “I’m so interested in films coming from a society that has been indoctrinated with the same amount of cliché material,” Wilde said as she talked about social media increasingly shaping Hollwood movies and TV series.

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