Olivia Wilde knew she had what it takes to direct a movie: “Once you’ve changed a really dirty diaper at 35,000 feet in the tiny, cramped bathroom of a plane, you can do pretty much do anything,” says the actress, 35, who’s mum to Otis, 5, and Daisy, 2, with her longtime boyfriend, actor Jason Sudeikis. But despite rave reviews for her directorial debut Booksmart, Wilde says her accomplishment didn’t fully sink in until she talked to her son. “The other day I said, ‘Otis, do you know what I do for a living?’ You never know if your kids really understand. He said, ‘Yeah, Mom, you’re a director.’ I got full-body chills and started crying,” says Wilde. “Hearing it from him made it real.”
Becoming a director has been…
