Olivia Wilde has taken a strong stance against Elon Musk, whom she met years ago in Los Angeles, referring to him as a ‘creature.’
The accomplished actress and director shared her feelings about the billionaire, expressing disbelief at the path he’s chosen to tread.
“I really resent him now—I really deeply resent him,” Wilde, aged 42, revealed during an appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast.
Reflecting on their meeting long ago, she mentioned that at the time SpaceX had just established its Los Angeles headquarters, and she toured the facility out of interest in their rocket technology.
This was, as she described, “before he turned into this creature.” During that period, Musk had shown interest in contributing financially to a Haitian organization Wilde was involved with, dedicated to constructing schools and hospitals.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for the actress and Musk’s company Tesla for further comment.
Olivia Wilde, 42, spoke abut how much she ‘resents’ Elon Musk years after meeting him as at SpaceX facility in LA. Pictured in April
She said on The Louis Theroux Podcast the meeting with Musk happened ‘before he turned into this creature’ and ‘would never have predicted he would go down the path he has gone down.’ Musk pictured in 2023
Wilde believes Musk ‘did donate a little bit of money’ at the time, which she ‘appreciated.’
She went on: ‘I was confused by him. I would never have predicted he would go down the path he has gone down. He did seem really smart.’
One of the issues Wilde takes exception to is what she sees as Musk’s promotion of misogynistic incel culture including the notion that men are more powerful than nature.
The former House star cited Musk’s statements ‘about how we don’t have enough people and the world is underpopulated and we could handle another billion people.’
Indeed, the South African-born entrepreneur whose portfolio also includes Tesla remarked in 2022 that the world faces an underpopulation crisis that could forever change human life on Earth.
And in 2017 he suggested that the number of people on Earth is ‘accelerating towards collapse but few seem to notice or care.’
In Wilde’s directorial debut Don’t Worry Darling, actor Chris Pine played a character which she says was inspired by Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson.
While promoting the film, she dubbed Peterson a ‘pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community’ and defined incels as ‘disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women.’
However, in her interview with Theroux, she characterized her past labeling of Peterson as ‘a pseudo-intellectual’ as ‘unfair.’
The former House star cited Musk’s statements ‘about how we don’t have enough people and the world is underpopulated and we could handle another billion people.’
Wilde, who shares two children with ex Jason Sudeikis, is an outspoken critic of misogynistic incel culture including the notion that men are more powerful than nature. Pictured July 1
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She said of Peterson: ‘He obviously thinks about things deeply, but I just feel that he operates in a way that is a buttoned-up version of the type of thinkers that lead to the Andrew Tates of the world.’
‘There are different layers to that community, some of whom speak more clearly the points they are all actually filtering through.’
The actress, who shares two children with ex Jason Sudeikis, explained that her ‘issue with Peterson is a lot of people who are not in any way misogynist have adopted this sanitized version of the same philosophy that’s rooted in deep misogyny and weaponized by the incel community – the basic point of it is entitlement to power.’
‘I was disturbed by what I saw as this misogyny that was being weaponized and leading us to elect Donald Trump twice and beyond that just empower these groups of people who I think are dangerous.’
Peterson responded to Wilde’s 2022 remarks shortly after she made them in a tearful interview with Piers Morgan.
‘People have been after me for a long time because I’ve been speaking to disaffected men – and what a terrible thing to do that is,’ he said.
‘I thought the marginalized were supposed to have a voice.’
He went on: ‘You get these casual insults, like ‘you incels’. What does that even mean?’
‘These men don’t know how to make themselves attractive to women and they are picky. And good for them, women you be picky, that’s your gift. Demand high standards from your man, fair enough.
‘But all these men who are alienated it’s like, they’re lonesome and they don’t know what to do and everyone piles abuse on them,’ he said.