“We’re very, very, very different people,” Wilde emphasized.

Olivia Wilde says she and ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis are better off as ‘friends and co-parents’

"We're very, very, very different people," Wilde emphasized.

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Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde at iHeartRadio's Z100 Jingle Ball on Dec. 13, 2019. Credit:

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- Olivia Wilde opens up about why she and ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis are better off as friends after their 2020 split.

- "We're very, very, very different people who are certainly much better as friends and co-parents," Wilde told *The Cut* in a new interview.

- Wilde and Sudeikis began dating in 2011 and got engaged in January 2013, before announcing their split in November 2020. They share two children, son Otis and daughter Daisy.

Olivia Wilde has no trouble saying that she and ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis are better off as friends after their 2020 split.

The *Don’t Worry Darling* filmmaker opened up about her relationship with Sudeikis in a new interview with *The Cut* published on Wednesday, in which Wilde shared how their different personalities have resulted in a fairly copacetic co-parenting situation for their son Otis and daughter Daisy.

"We're very, very, very different people who are certainly much better as friends and co-parents," Wilde told the outlet. She explained that their custody arrangement has their kids having alternate weeks between their famous parents, but they keep the arrangement "flexible and fluid."

Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis at the 88th Annual Academy Awards on Feb. 28, 2016.

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Wilde and Sudeikis began dating in 2011 and got engaged in January 2013. Over the course of their nine-year relationship, the pair had two children together before ultimately announcing their separation in November 2020.

Despite some bumps along the road to a peaceful existence — including making headlines after Wilde received child custody papers from Sudeikis while on stage at CinemaCon in 2022 —the pair have gotten to a place where *The O.C.* alum is happy to give up one of her days with Daisy so her daughter can watch a soccer match in Brooklyn bar FancyFree with her dad.

"Jason sent me a picture of her sitting with Spike Lee and Mayor Mamdani, two people I revere," Wilde said of the decision. "I was like, 'F---, yeah!'"

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While previously reflecting on her relationship with her ex-partner, Wilde shared that she and Sudeikis "didn't know each other anymore."

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During an appearance on the *Call Her Daddy* podcast last week, she credited the moment of realization that their relationship was over as "one of the things" that inspired her new film *The Invite*, explaining how "you can get to a place in a relationship where you stop engaging in the knowing of each other, in the curiosity about each other."

Wilde told host Alex Cooper, "And you find yourself in a place where you're like, 'I don't even know you.' And that was a point, that was when we realized it was over. And it was f---ing tough. And it brought us to the place of like, 'Okay, this is done. We're going to end this.'"

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