14 DAY TRIAL // She doesn’t usually make this kind of blunders – or any blunder at all – but, to her credit, at least she admits when she’s wrong. Ahead of a screening of “Cowboys & Aliens,” actress Olivia Wilde put her foot in it, by saying on Twitter she was getting her speech ready in “Swiss.”
Switzerland has four official languages and, as it happens, none of them is “Swiss,” simply because such a language does not exist, something Olivia overlooked when she tweeted the update.
“Cowboys screening for 8,000 in the Piazza Grande a the Locarno Fest tonight. prepping my speech in Swiss, Italian, and Apache just in case,” the gorgeous actress wrote.
Fans probably jumped at the opportunity to correct her and let her know that the official languages in the country are German, French, Italian and Romansh, since Wilde returned with an update.
She admitted her mistake and even managed to joke about it.
“oh good, turns out there’s no Swiss language. that makes things simpler. i’ll throw in Cantonese just to keep things interesting,” Olivia said, rectifying her mistake.
“last night’s screening of Cowboys for 8,000 in Piazza Grande, Locarno felt like Cinema Paradiso. it was honestly the stuff of dreams,” she added later.
Wilde, the “House M.D.” alum known for her role as the sassy and troubled Thirteen, can now be seen in two movies in the top 10 chart of the US box office.
She’s starring in the western / alien action film “Cowboys & Aliens” opposite Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, and in the romantic comedy “The Change-Up,” with Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman.
As we also informed you yesterday, the latter turned out to be a flop with audiences: on its first weekend, it barely made $13.5 million.
Industry watchers point out that “Cowboys & Aliens” too is performing somewhat beneath expectations: it made $15.8 million domestically in its second weekend, while boasting of a budget of $200 million.