I have only heard of one. [beeping] [laughing]
You have a microphone there, you have another one here.
Hi, Allure.
I’m Olivia Wilde.
I’m Penelope Cruz and this is Truth Serum.
[mystical music]
There. [metal jingling]
From heaven. [Olivia gasping]
Oh.
Oh. Ah. I want all these answers.[laughing]
Me too, they’re good.
To the truth. [glass clinking]
And only the truth.
[ominous music]
[Penelope gasping]
[Olivia laughing]
Oh, I feel it.
[mystical music]
Reveal an OG Hollywood beauty secret
that has stood the test of time.
I don’t know a Hollywood beauty secret.
I grew up in a hair salon, beauty salon from my mother.
So all my tips and tricks would be from that.
Is there a secret from her?
I learned how to cut hair.
I learned how to do blow dry.
I learned how to do the perm [indistinct].
If you ever want me to cut your hair.
Yes.
Salma called me one day many years ago
and she said, I have a premiere.
I need you to do my hair and makeup,
but the light went off in my house.
We have no electricity, no light, but you need to come
because also my hair and makeup team canceled
something happened.
So she asked me to do it with no lights.
[ominous music] By cable light.
So I put some candles.
No.
And I did hair
and makeup for her. I did see the pictures
from this premier. And she went
to the premiere and. Oh, my God.
And everything was fine.
Wow. So if you ever need me
for that. Yes.
What was the premiere? No.
We have to find these photos.
No, but I deserve ASAP>
That credit.
Wow. No one would have believed her.
She’s like hair and makeup. Nobody.
Penelope Cruz. Nobody believes
these stories that I have with her, but it’s true.
What is a past beauty phase of yours
that you deeply regret?
You don’t have any.
I plucked off all my eyebrows.
Oh, the whole thing?
So many of them and they didn’t grow back,
everybody else grew back and mine didn’t fucking grow back.
[Penelope laughing]
I wanted to be Kate Moss, like many of us.
It just feels like one of those trends
that a lot of people tried,
but then everyone else recovered entirely
and then mine just didn’t.
And so I don’t have,
I barely have eyebrows. Now they’re fine.
They are. They’re great.
An illusion.[laughing]
You’re funny.
They are not actually there.[laughing]
What did you put in here?
It’s not working.
[Olivia laughing]
[glass clinking]
To the truth.
Truth.
[delicate music]
Are you ready?
Ready.
[Olivia] Okay, you have to be honest.
Okay.
[laughing] Are swingers in Hollywood a real thing?
[ominous music] [Olivia laughing]
What the fuck do I know?
I mean, all I do is [Olivia laughing]
school, football, dance,
work, kids, work, that’s my life.
Yeah.
What do I know? It doesn’t have to be you,
but are swingers are real thing?
And if they exist, they don’t tell me about it.
I mean, I don’t know stories about that,
but if you know, you better tell me
because I like knowing everything.
And I don’t repeat it.
I wouldn’t share that information, but I would like to know.
I have only heard of one. [whispering]
[ominous music]
You have a microphone there, you have another one here.
I know it’s the thing, I haven’t seen it with my own eyes.
And I feel like of course there’s gonna be rumors
about everybody and everything.
And we’ve heard that in the past,
like the old, old times they had a lot of swinging parties.
But you’re the one who’s supposed to be answering.
Yeah, but I don’t know and I would like to know.
I would also like to know.
So let’s invest some of our time.
Okay, into finding out. Figuring it out
if that’s true.
Okay, I’m open to that. The start of curiosity.
I like that mission.
What is the question that you wish people
would stop asking you?
[Olivia laughing] [magical music]
I wish people would stop.
You know what?
I think there’s a lot of conversation
about female directors.
Oh, yes. And we put ourselves
into a category and it’s like,
I wish people would stop asking me about
what it’s like to be a female director.
Why you don’t ask me when it’s a man?
Yeah. They don’t ask the WNBA players,
How does it feel playing girl basketball?
Yes. It’s like,
they think they just play basketball.
Yeah. And I think
it’s the same thing
that I understand the intention is
to say talk about the experience of being
in a male dominated industry,
but we keep putting ourselves into these kind
of siloed categories
that actually doesn’t really help the greater cause.
I agree.
But there will be one day where that question
won’t be asked. Yeah, It’ll feel crazy.
Hopefully soon.
Hopefully soon.
How often is normal to have sex in a long-term relationship?
[ominous music] How often is normal?
How often is normal? That is a different universe
for each person and for each couple.
So I’m not going to answer that.
[both laughing]
It’s true when Esther says,
[Penelope] Oh, what does she say about that?
Well, she says that it was the beginning of her career
was because there were all these quizzes
that said a specific number.
If you don’t have sex more than 11 times a month,
your relationship is dead.
And she said people are misunderstanding this whole concept
by putting a number on it, putting a goal
and then that actually is not helpful.
So maybe how often is normal?
I would say it’s not normal to not have sex,
which is.
Yeah. I agree. A lot of people think
that like, Oh, you know, we had kids
or we’re both busy, so we just don’t have sex anymore.
And I think that is a red flag.
It’s so funny how you and I, every time we talk to her,
we ask her the questions
that we know she’s not going to answer
[Olivia laughing] and the ones
that we cannot share here.
I was so lucky to have her there for inspiration
and to be able to call her, to give us feedback
about, okay, when Pina becomes the therapist in the scene
to be completely away from any cliche.
Yes. Yes. She helped us so much.
It’s so true. [bell ringing]
What is a relationship red flag
that you should immediately run from?
I mean, bad listeners, but I think someone
who interrupts you and doesn’t listen.
Someone who can’t celebrate your success.
Yeah, that would be very sad.
Yeah, who doesn’t get pleasure from your happiness.
Yeah, that has no future. Yeah.
Most of the time, the people that do
that are not going to be obvious.
No, they’re not obvious.
Yeah, it’s subtle scraping away at your confidence.
Lying in general, I hate. Yeah.
They say if a man hates cats, he hates women
because he wants to control women.
I say this is someone who’s fully allergic
to cats.[laughing]
If they don’t like animals,
that’s a red flag. Yeah, that’s weird.
[tone buzzing]
I need more serum.
[ominous music]
What do you think is the part of perimenopause
that is least talked about publicly?
That it can last 10, 12 years.
It can start as early as 40.
The ups and downs can be crazy.
And I remember when I was 41
and my doctor told me,
Your hormones are going to be doing this crazy dance
for the next 10 or 12 years.
And I thought that it was a really bad joke
and I thought it was not possible to handle that
and because I develop cyst in my ovaries almost every month
and I still do and they spike hormones.
So you can go
from a number 30 Oh, God.
Of estrogen to a number 500
and they would look at that and say,
No, this is a mistake from the lab,
so let’s repeat the test.
And it was right.
So I remember the day that she told me
that like it was yesterday
and it’s still the same today, same thing.
Get my period every month, the hormones are crazy,
up, down, up and down, up and down and people have to know
because you have to prepare yourself
and of course God bless. Oh, God.
Bioidentical hormones.
[Olivia] What is it, bioidentical?
Hormones, bioidentical.
What is one symptom that people don’t often recognize
is perimenopause?
A lot of people have this idea that is going
to be about hot flashes.
Right.
And that has never happened to me
because. You taught me about
the frozen shoulder thing.
[ominous music]
Was that me who told you?
Or it was your character. Because, no that.
Pina did.
That came from Marie Claire.
Oh, right, right, right.
Because I did my own little Frankenstein
from things from different doctors for those scenes,
but a lot of that came from Dr. Marie Claire.
So it was my personal homage to her.
Now I just think about frozen shoulder all the time.
I’m just waiting for my shoulder to freeze. [laughing]
I learned even more about perimenopause
than I learned on our shoot, which was a lot
and I learned that it’s gonna happen for 12 years.
[laughing] And I’m scared. [Penelope laughing]
I learned a big thing.
She said something.
[tone beeping]
[ominous music]
And I was like,
Okay, then I have to talk to you after this
because you just reveal something that
I’m like, I need to know.
I need to know. I was too truthful.
But again, I cannot say that here.
[Olivia laughing] But I’m kind of shocked.
Thanks for watching our honesty.
See you next time.
Salud.
Salud.
[Penelope speaking in foreign language]
[Olivia speaking in foreign language and laughing]
[delicate music]