--- title: Olivia Wilde on Celebs and Social Media: Ebola Film description: The actress worked behind the camera on a film about Ebola canonical: https://time.com/3831388/olivia-wilde-ebola-social-media/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-23T13:09:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:35:09.731Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Olivia Wilde on Celebs and Social Media: "The Nature of Society Has Changed" og:description: The actress worked behind the camera on a film about Ebola og:url: https://time.com/3831388/olivia-wilde-ebola-social-media/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5a87a87bd94f9ae/6987ec7b2dce0103459e173a/olivia-wilde.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 'Home' Premiere, Tribeca Film Festival 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Olivia Wilde on Celebs and Social Media: "The Nature of Society Has Changed" twitter:description: The actress worked behind the camera on a film about Ebola twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5a87a87bd94f9ae/6987ec7b2dce0103459e173a/olivia-wilde.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Olivia Wilde on Celebs and Social Media: 'The Nature of Society Has Changed' > Sponsored content. 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Olivia Wilde attends the Shorts Program World Pemiere of 'Body Team 12' during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at Regal Battery Park 11 on April 19, 2015 in New York City.Dennis Van Tine—Geisler-Fotopres/AP  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Apr 23, 2015 1:09 PM UTC **Correction appended, April 23** Olivia Wilde may be best known for her work onscreen in the likes of _House_ and _Tron: Legacy_. But she’s increasingly getting more involved behind the camera, most recently in producing the documentary short _Body Team 12_. The film, which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and has a planned release in the fall, is directed by aid worker David Darg. It depicts the work a Liberian woman named Garmai Sumo, whose work hauling the bodies of the dead during the Ebola crisis is both arduous and emotionally taxing. In the time since, Sumo has moved from burying the dead to feeding the living and is involved in aiding the orphans of Monrovia through her [Ebola Orphan Project](http://www.EbolaOrphanProject.com). “It’s a wonderful tale of redemption for Garmai,” Darg says. The film upsets and overwhelms with scenes of Sumo facing angry families even as she places herself at grave risk, but the film provides viewers uplift in the form of a fairly direct way to support Sumo’s work today. It emerged from Darg’s aid work in Liberia; he embedded with a body team along with journalists from the _Washington Post_ and China’s CCTV. Wilde came in at a later stage of production; Darg and producer Bryn Mooser “approached me about coming on as an executive producer, and I wanted to help in any way I could to facilitate the process and help people see it.” That’s a role with which Wilde has grown more and more comfortable. The actress joined Twitter in an attempt to raise money after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. “That’s ancient history now,” she said, “and I’ve embraced it for both valuable causes and complete bulls—.” Wilde, who in recent bookings on TV has brought Darg and Mooser along to speak authoritatively about Ebola, is on the forefront of celebrities who’ve embraced the power of celebrity to draw attention to causes, even if it erodes mystique. “I think a lot of celebrities are coming around to the idea that Twitter and the Internet in all ways is not necessarily as representative of defeat as it was once seen,” she says. “When Twitter started, I think a lot of celebrities thought, ‘This is the ultimate betrayal of privacy, blah blah blah’—that it would ruin all sense of separation between people and celebrities.” Instead, though, stars who use social media to promote causes are widely lauded, a change that Wilde pegs to broader societal indulgence of a life online. “It used to be very separated, and there was this sense of maintaining the illusion, and that an actor had to be anonymous so people would believe you in character. But I think the nature of society has changed and it’s happened for everyone, not just celebrities. People share more, and people expect to be shared with. There’s just a sense of acceptance of a more complex and dynamic life, a more varied personality.” The one risk, perhaps, is Wilde’s believability as an actress given how out-front she is as a public persona. She’s unbothered: “Maybe there’s someone who won’t buy me because they’ve seen me speaking about Ebola on the _Today_ show. Who knows? But that would seem very rigid to me.” **Correction**: The original version of this story incorrectly described David Darg, who directed _Body Team 12_. 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