Actress Olivia Wilde, known for her roles in movies like Cowboys & Aliens and Tron: Legacy, revealed a fascinating behind-the-scenes story about her movie The Change-Up. Wilde proposed a daring scene involving a tattoo on vagina for her character. The scene was conceived when her character, along with co-star Ryan Reynolds, gets inked. However, the idea of explicitly showing a vagina tattoo on screen proved too bold for the film’s producers.
Wilde explained her reasoning: “I get it in a very delicate spot… It’s a vagina tattoo… I was like, ‘You have to show the tattoo if you set it up for the audience…’ and they were like, ‘No, we don’t need to show the vagina in the movie.'” Undeterred, Wilde even offered a solution to make her vision a reality, stating, “Well, you know, I’m willing to hire my vagina double right now… because I, as an audience member…, I wanna see it.”
Her enthusiasm for depicting a tattoo on the vagina stemmed from her appreciation for unique body art. She shared an anecdote about an impressive example she had encountered online: “The best vagina tattoo I’ve ever seen – and I haven’t seen it in person… You can Google it… This girl had a square of pubic hair, shaved… and a (tattoo of) a little man with a lawnmower walking along… I thought that was genius.” This story highlights Wilde’s appreciation for creative and humorous pubic tattoos.
Despite Wilde’s willingness to go the extra mile, including suggesting a vagina double to showcase the tattoo on her vagina, the director opted to keep the intimate artwork off-screen. This decision, however, led to another humorous moment during filming.
Wilde recounted, “I want it to make sense… We get tattoos and there’s a scene later where we’ve just had these tattoos the night before… and I walked into the scene when we were rehearsing, like, ‘Ooh, ooh…’ and they were like, ‘What are you doing? Why are you walking like that?’ I said, ‘Well, I got the vagina tattoo the night before so I’d probably still be sore, right?'”
The reaction from the filmmakers was not what she expected. “They were like, ‘Nobody wants to see that, don’t do that, don’t do that walk,’ and I was like, ‘It doesn’t make sense. We’re being irresponsible to the children out there who might go and get vagina tattoos, expecting to walk normally the next day.'” Wilde’s playful commentary underscores the often-unconsidered realities, even humorous ones, associated with getting a tattoo in such a sensitive area. Ultimately, while the audience was deprived of seeing Olivia Wilde’s character’s tattoo on her vagina, the story behind its conception remains an entertaining glimpse into the creative process and occasional boundaries in filmmaking.
