Olivia Wilde said Thursday she does not believe the real-life journalist she plays in the new film “Richard Jewel” “traded sex for tips” despite that insinuation in the movie.
In a series of tweets, Wilde called late Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs bold, smart and fearless and the actress rejected headlines that suggested she thought Scruggs acted improperly.
Wilde said she understood the “fictional dramatization of the story” to be that Scruggs and the FBI agent who leaked information to her were in a “pre-existing romantic relationship, not a transactional exchange of sex for information.
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