Alison Oliver has no real interest in discussing her relationship status — and that features those rumors linking her to Josh O’Connor.
“I just try not to have interaction with that and deal with being an actor,” Oliver, 28, told Elle UK in a profile published Friday, January 14, declining to talk further about her rumored romance with O’Connor, 35.
Oliver, nonetheless, did forecast that her 2026 can be stuffed with special moments along with her inner circle.
“I just wish to be sure that I’m nurturing relationships with the entire people I really like, being kind, listening to people and just growing and staying curious,” she told the outlet. “Life is difficult and busy, but I believe those are the things that matter probably the most.”
Oliver and O’Connor first sparked dating speculation in 2024, after The Crown actor reportedly joined Oliver at her sister’s wedding in London. The next yr, the pair posed together on the 2025 Cannes International Film Festival premiere of The Mastermind.
Months after Oliver and O’Connor’s supposed red carpet debut, the actress played coy about where they stood.
“I’m not going to reply questions on that, if that’s OK,” Oliver told The Times of London in a September 2025 interview. “I’m just setting slightly rule for myself, but thanks. Your personal life is your personal life. I’m just selecting to not discuss that.”
In line with Oliver, it is especially difficult learning to navigate an onslaught of attention about her private life within the midst of her success.
“Essentially, along with your job as an actor, you’re really not specializing in yourself, you’re specializing in this other character,” Oliver explained on the time. “It’s all the time a wierd flip when suddenly you are feeling this highlight on you and who you might be. I remember at first feeling really like, ‘Oh f***, I don’t actually know [who I am], so I don’t know who to be in these environments.’”
While speaking with Elle, Oliver reiterated that she has little interest in the celebrity aspect of her Hollywood profession.
“That part is just not vital,” Oliver stressed to the magazine. “I often don’t know why I actually have [social media] because my job is to make others imagine I’m another person.”
Oliver will next star as Isabella Linton in Emerald Fennell’s anticipated reimagining of Wuthering Heights.
“She’s a really repressed character who’s desperate for love,” Oliver teased of the upcoming film. “Emerald’s interpretation of Isabella’s story is the reverse of Cathy’s; there’s an uncorseting of her. Like she becomes undone. There’s something so powerful about being underestimated.”
Fennell, 40, is best known for guiding Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, recently turning her attention to adapting Emily Brontë’s bestselling novel.
“It’s how Emerald experienced the book when she read it as a young person, so it’s not what’s on the page,” Oliver added of the new edition of Wuthering Heights. “I don’t think that’s what it’s attempting to be. You’ll never be bored by an Emerald Fennell film. I believe it can make noise, but you never know the way things are going to be taken. I’ve learnt that it’s not likely my business to fret about that.”
Wuthering Heights, also starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, hits theaters February 13.