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"  Photo: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures It&amp;#039;s impossible to watch Drinking Buddies\u2014one of the year&amp;#039;s best comedies\u2014without recognizing your own friends, boyfriend, and yourself. Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, and Ron Livingston are likable, relatable, and fun to hang with, as friends whose witty observations, commitment phobia and insecurities resemble the detritus of everyday life. &amp;quot;Mumblecore&amp;quot; (uber-naturalistic, DIY-style indies) auteur Joe Swanberg reenergizes the rom-com genre by discovering romance and comedy in\u2014yes!\u2014real life. Wilde and Johnson (know for being Zooey Deschanel&amp;#039;s roommate on New Girl) play best friends and co-workers at a brewery. Their respective relationships, with Livingston and Kendrick, unravel after the two couples vacation together (skinny dipping, stolen kisses, et al., ensue). Wilde and Johnson must confront their percolating flirtation, which becomes complicated, awkward, and delicate. Wilde, whose career includes seven films in 2013, is amazingly believable as the tomboy who lives in jeans and kicks and swills beer with the guys, despite her supermodel-stunning looks. We chatted with Wilde recently about love, flannel, and working with her fianc\u00E9, Jason Sudeikis.  Did the actors improvise the entire film? Yes. There was no script. Joe had an outline on paper that we never saw but he described it. All it had were the basic plot points. We didn&amp;#039;t know what would happen day-to-day. We were shooting a bonfire because we&amp;#039;d had a real-life bonfire after work. Then I thought, &amp;#039;Maybe I&amp;#039;ll go skinny-dipping!&amp;#039; The look on Jake&amp;#039;s face captured his conflict. What was like it having your fianc\u00E9 Jason Sudeikis play your boss? It wasn&amp;#039;t weird because Jason told me to make this film. He knew more about Joe Swanberg and the community of mumblecore directors than I did, from his experience in the improv world, specifically Chicago. I learned about improv from Jason; I&amp;#039;d done Second City with him. I was falling in love with the improv community; all my years in acting school with Stanislavski technique and Shakespeare had to [be unlearned]. This film seemed cool but a scary process to me, and Jason encouraged me to do it. He visited me in Chicago when we were shooting. I said, &amp;#039;We have nobody to play my boss; can you jump in and improvise?&amp;#039; We had so much fun! I&amp;#039;m in awe of how quick he is and funny without trying to be funny. He&amp;#039;s so respected in the improv world; it added a lot of cred that we got him in the film. Did you and Jason start out as friends, like Kate and Luke? Nope, we had crushes on each other from the first moment! [Laughs] If I was his &amp;#039;friend,&amp;#039; I would just be secretly in love with him the entire time! Any idea when wedding bells will ring? We have a vague idea but we&amp;#039;re so lucky to be busy. This is our life&amp;#039;s dream, right now. We&amp;#039;re having a great time. Are you like Kate when you&amp;#039;re in love? I&amp;#039;m much more nurturing and maternal. In a relationship I&amp;#039;m a very loving person, emotional and sensitive. Kate is more locked up. Her experiences have made her less comfortable with giving and commitment. Do you share Kate&amp;#039;s love of grunge and flannel or is your own style more girly? I used to dress more like her and still do at times. I&amp;#039;m pretty low-key; you&amp;#039;ll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt. It&amp;#039;s evolving as I get older; I&amp;#039;m having fun learning about fashion. I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night. Drinking Buddies opens tomorrow.  Photo: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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