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Olivia Wilde<\/strong><\/a> is all smiles these days as she bids to reinvent herself and repair burned bridges all over Hollywood \u2014 but a lot of people aren\u2019t buying it, sources exclusively tell Life & Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n The actress and director, 40, made constant headlines during the lead-up to the release of her second directorial film, Don\u2019t Worry Darling<\/em><\/a>, in which she also starred. Before it hit theaters in September 2022, Olivia fired<\/a> actor Shia LaBeouf<\/strong>, who was later replaced by Harry Styles<\/strong>. Then, Olivia and Harry, 30, eventually found themselves in a relationship following her split from Jason Sudeikis<\/strong>, who served his ex custody papers during a high-profile promotional event for the film.<\/p>\n Rumors later swirled that Olivia and actress Florence Pugh<\/strong> were at odds throughout the film\u2019s press tour, and it appeared there was tension among the cast when a clip went viral that seemed to show Harry spitting on costar Chris Pine<\/strong> (though all have denied \u201cspitgate\u201d to be true).<\/p>\n Now, a high-level studio insider tells Life & Style<\/em>, \u201cOlivia has spent the last several months doing the studio rounds and taking the temperature a year after the Don\u2019t Worry Darling<\/em> debacle, and when she sat down with studio bosses, she turned on the charm and told her side of the story of why her second movie as a director was such an across-the-board loser.\u201d<\/p>\n While Don\u2019t Worry Darling<\/em> received mixed reviews after such a high-profile promotional period, Olivia is ready to get back in the director\u2019s chair \u2014 and is hoping for a better experience this time around, sources say.<\/p>\n \u201cQuite frankly, only some people who have encountered the \u2018new\u2019 Olivia are eating up this personality turnaround, but Olivia\u2019s plan has worked: she\u2019s got a new movie to direct and she\u2019s got the two hottest producers in town, Margot Robbie<\/strong> and Tom Ackerley<\/strong>, and the hottest studio in town, Universal, backing it,\u201d notes an insider.<\/p>\n