--- title: Olivia Wilde Was 'Too Old' for 'Wolf of Wall Street' Role description: The 'Vinyl' actress says she was turned down for a role because of her age canonical: https://time.com/4260829/olivia-wilde-too-old-wall-street/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-16T12:23:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:56:31.643Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Olivia Wilde Considered 'Too Old' for 'Wolf of Wall Street' og:description: The 'Vinyl' actress says she was turned down for a role because of her age og:url: https://time.com/4260829/olivia-wilde-too-old-wall-street/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48b169f813c60a2d/69888b32524fc04c3edf734e/olivia-wilde-too-old-wolf-of-wallstreet.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: olivia-wilde-too-old-wolf-of-wallstreet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Olivia Wilde Considered 'Too Old' for 'Wolf of Wall Street' twitter:description: The 'Vinyl' actress says she was turned down for a role because of her age twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48b169f813c60a2d/69888b32524fc04c3edf734e/olivia-wilde-too-old-wolf-of-wallstreet.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Olivia Wilde Says She Was Considered 'Too Old' for _The Wolf of Wall Street_ Role  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Mar 16, 2016 12:23 PM UTC  Emma McIntyre—Getty  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Mar 16, 2016 12:23 PM UTC Olivia Wilde is barely into her thirties, yet she’s already running into the double standards facing aging women in Hollywood. Wilde, who stars on the new HBO show _Vinyl_, [told Howard Stern during an interview](https://www.howardstern.com/show-guests/24909-olivia-wilde-ali-g-oscars-vinyl-merkin-too-old-wolf-wall-street/) that while she’s never lost out a part for being too beautiful, she has lost out on one for being too old. Yes, too old. At age 32. After auditioning for _The Wolf of Wall Street_, Wilde heard from her agent that producers thought she was “too sophisticated” for the part, which at the time sounded as much like a compliment as any rejection possibly could. (That movie also filmed in 2012, so Wilde was still in her twenties at the time.) “And then I found out later that they actually said ‘old,'” she recalls. “I want to make a translation sheet for Hollywood that’s all the feedback your agents give you and what it really means.” (The part ultimately went to Margot Robbie.) Other actresses have shared similar stories: Last year, Maggie Gyllenhaal, 37, revealed that she was [turned down for a role as a love interest](http://time.com/3892100/maggie-gyllenhaal-hollywood-sexism/) of a 55-year-old man because she was too old. “It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh,” she said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4260829/olivia-wilde-too-old-wall-street/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4260829/olivia-wilde-too-old-wall-street/"},"headline":"Olivia Wilde Says She Was Considered 'Too Old' for The Wolf of Wall Street Role","datePublished":"2016-03-16T12:23:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:56:31.643Z","description":"The 'Vinyl' actress says she was turned down for a role because of her age","url":"https://time.com/4260829/olivia-wilde-too-old-wall-street/","keywords":["movies","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48b169f813c60a2d/69888b32524fc04c3edf734e/olivia-wilde-too-old-wolf-of-wallstreet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48b169f813c60a2d/69888b32524fc04c3edf734e/olivia-wilde-too-old-wolf-of-wallstreet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"olivia-wilde-too-old-wolf-of-wallstreet","caption":"olivia-wilde-too-old-wolf-of-wallstreet","creditText":"Emma McIntyre—Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4260829/olivia-wilde-too-old-wall-street/","name":"Olivia Wilde Says She Was Considered 'Too Old' for The Wolf of Wall Street Role"}}]}] ```