Olivia Wilde on Cooper Hoffman: ‘The Second I Met Him, I Loved Him’

Hollywood actress Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman are setting the mercury soaring at this yearrsquos Sundance Film FestivalThe actors attended the premiere of indie filmmaker Gregg Arakirsquos lsquoI Want Your Sexrsquo at the Utah festival reports lsquoPeoplersquo magazineOlivia Wilde 41 as a provocative artist who hires Hoffman 22 and makes him her sexual sub The two actors engage in a variety of kinky activities bondage costumes included onscreen As Wilde recalled during the Eccles Theater premieres postscreening Qamp A she and Araki 66 knew the relationship between the characters had to be so much more than just domsub There had to be something that made you actually weirdly in a teenytiny way root for them and to feel that they had actual chemistry and kind of loved each otherrdquoAs per lsquoPeoplersquo after signing on to the project and debating her potential scene partners Olivia Wilde said the second I met Cooper I was like huh I love yoursquordquoThe film is cowritten by Araki and Karley Sciortino it centers on ldquoa sexforward Los Angeles art gallery that hosts a delightfully enigmatic sadomasochistic gamerdquo per an official Sundance synopsis The outrageously playful sexual crusaderdquo it added challenges ldquomisaligned conceptions of kinkpredation exhibition and generational predispositions toward sexual freedom and autonomyrdquoI was just so excited by Gregs enthusiasm for the medium for the processrdquo the actress said during the Q amp A alongside Araki Hoffman Gooding and Wonders I wish more people made movies like him Araki praised his screen muse saying Ive been a long time fan of Olivias since mdash remember when she was the bisexual hot girl on The OC I think Olivia is a true oldtime starrdquoDirecting a movie is 99 percent casting said the filmmaker who has now premiered 11 titles at the Sundance Film Festival Meeting Wilde he recalled I just said To do this part you got to just not give a f and just want to just f take the plunge because I dont want to compromise it And she said Lets gorsquo And the rest was history And then once Olivia was doing the movie everybody wanted to be in itrdquoThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever