Sometimes you’ve gotta just sit tight and wait.

Jason Sudeikis revealed to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show last night just how exactly he managed to land his now fiancée, Olivia Wilde.

Stephen teased, “One of you is soo attractive. You’re a funny guy and you’re a reasonably good-looking man. But she’s a different species,” to which Jason agreed, “Oh, it’s a different thing. Bone structure, skin, teeth, eye color — literally just about everything.”

The spark between them began when the actor was on Saturday Night Live. Jason said, “I met her at a finale party for SNL. We hit it off that night.”

But the timing just wasn’t quite right. Jason said he got wind that Olivia was spoken for at the time, so he played the waiting game.

The 41-year-old said, “I actually came off looking a little cooler than I really am because I had heard through the grapevine, through mutual friends who weren’t exactly her best girlfriends, who would report back, ‘Oh you know, I think she’s dating someone.’ So I didn’t make any moves. I was just very, very busy with other things. And next thing you know, I stopped being busy, she stopped dating someone, and then it was off to the races. We sort of reintroduced ourselves,” he added. “The universe had more in store for us in the fall.”

Turns out Olivia was not so patiently waiting for him to come around. The actress told Allure back in 2013, “I met Jason, and I thought he was so charming … but he didn’t even get my number. Over the next six months we kept running into each other. [One night], my best guy friend walked up to him and said, ‘This is Olivia’s number. Use it.’ That was the beginning.”

LOL!