In a possible case of life imitating art, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde have split up.
In the August issue of GQ, Sudeikis, star of Emmy Award-winning Apple TV+ series, “Ted Lazlo,” discusses his split from wife of seven years, actress Olivia Wilde. He says that he developed the “Ted Lazlo” concept -- which involves a man getting over a failed marriage -- with Wilde in 2015, in what now seems like some kind of manifestation on Wilde’s part.
The SNL alum explains, “I wonder if that’s true. I mean, isn’t that just a little bit of what Oprah [Winfrey] was telling us for years and years? You know, manifestation? Power of thought? That’s ‘The Secret’ in reverse, you know?”
Not that it was a well-kept secret, but as Page Six recounts, the couple finally announced their split in November 2020. And two months later, Wilde, 37, was spotted out and about with pop star Harry Styles, 27.
For his part, Sudeikis, 45, seems to be handling the breakup as well as can be expected, and says you just have to learn from it.
“You take some responsibility for it,” said Sudeikis, "hold yourself accountable for what you do, but then also endeavor to learn something beyond the obvious from it.”
This kind of practical stance bodes well for the future of the split-up couple’s two kids, 7-year-old Otis and 4-year-old Daisy. Especially since Sudeikis didn’t look well at the Golden Globes virtual ceremony, where he accepted his best actor award in a tie-die hoodie and rambled during his speech.
Rumors soon flew that he wasn’t doing too well over the breakup.
“I was neither high nor heartbroken,” Sudeikis clarified to GQ. “So yeah, it came off like, ‘This is how I feel. I believe in moving forward.'”
He added that his choice to wear the hoodie was to avoid having to wear a Tom Ford suit.
His sense of humor, and no doubt his recent successes, have Sudeikis taking a wise, and very wide view of the split.
“I’ll have a better understanding of why in a year,” he said, “and an even better one in two, and an even greater one in five, and it’ll go from being, you know, a book of my life to becoming a chapter to a paragraph to a line to a word to a doodle.”
When asked about his slow-burn good attitude over the bad situation, Sudeikis simply said, “I don’t know. It’s just how I landed.”
The second season of “Ted Lazlo” -- which Sudeikis has described as “an equivalent to "The Empire Strikes Back" -- is wrapped and ready to air on July 23.
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