In 2006, Eric Christian Olsen booked another TV series, cast as a series regular in the Fox comedy “The Loop.” The experience would prove to be a pivotal one in his life — not because the show was any good (it definitely wasn’t), but because it brought him into the orbit of co-star Sarah Wright. Wright, who appeared in several episodes, would go on to become Olsen’s wife (they tied the knot in 2012), but it’s fair to say that it wasn’t a case of love at first sight.
Appearing together on “Entertainment Tonight,” the spouses posed questions to each other. Wright asked her husband to recall his first impression of her when they first met on the set. “I thought they hired you because you were super gorgeous and not because you were talented, so I was mean to you the first time we met,” Olsen admitted. Olsen then asked the same question of his wife. “I thought you were a big jerk!” she declared. So how did the two overcome that rough start? According to Wright, at the table read Olsen laughed at her jokes, and then afterward came up to her and apologized for his initial rudeness.
Since then, the couple went on to start a family, welcoming their first child, son Wyatt Oliver, in 2013. Next came daughter Esmé Olivia in 2016, followed by their third, daughter Winter Story, who arrived in 2020.
