Olivia Wilde: meets TV's new Juliet��for the XXX set - TV Heat - Brief Article

A new TV and film actor, Olivia Wilde finds herself immersed in the world of porn. Starring in Jerry Bruckheimer's fall TV series Skin, Wilde plays a teen dating the son of the Los Angeles DA, who's locked in battle with her father, an adult-film producer. Add to this Romeo and Juliet adaptation the 19-year-old's movie debut--a role in the upcoming The Girl Next Door, about a porn star attempting to start over--and you can see why she frets about typecasting.

Casting, as it turns out, was Wilde's platform into Hollywood. Three years ago she spent her summer processing resumes for an L.A. casting director. "It was my parents' idea, to test how badly I wanted to act," she explains. "But sorting 700 head shots a day made me more determined." So after graduating from boarding school in Massachusetts, Wilde moved out West and went back to work at the casting agency to earn some money. It was there that Girl's director, Luke Greenfield, saw her and offered her a small part in his film. "But," she says, "after I got Skin, they made the role a little bigger."

Mark Simon Burk is a New York-based writer.

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