{"id":670,"date":"2026-05-03T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/olivia-wilde-reacts-to-being-compared-to-lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-gollum-after-viral-red-carpet-look\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:34:09","slug":"olivia-wilde-reacts-to-being-compared-to-lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-gollum-after-viral-red-carpet-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/olivia-wilde-reacts-to-being-compared-to-lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-gollum-after-viral-red-carpet-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Wilde reacts to being compared to &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; hobbit Gollum after viral red carpet look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/126921750.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Olivia Wilde laughed off trolls comparing her <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/30\/celebrity-news\/olivia-wilde-fans-rush-to-actress-defense-after-cruel-trolls-criticize-her-appearance-in-viral-video\/\">viral red carpet look<\/a> to the character Gollum from \u201cLord of the Rings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress addressed the criticism over her appearance during her recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/KmW58Tzn8DY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">red carpet interview with SFGate<\/a> in an Instagram Story Saturday, clearly not letting it bother her.<\/p>\n<p>Wilde, 42, blamed her different appearance on the camera\u2019s fisheye lens \u2014 which produces distortion due to its ultra-wide-angle \u2014 but also acknowledged it wasn\u2019t her most flattering look.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Olivia Wilde addressed her look at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 24 (pictured here), after her interview with SFGate went viral. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actress laughed off mean comments comparing her distorted image in the interview to the character Gollum from \u201cLord of the Rings.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">oliviawilde\/instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The mother of two wrote, \u201cLeave it to your little brother to give you the maximum amount of s\u2013t,\u201d with a video of her sibling asking her if she wanted to address rumors she\u2019s a \u201cresurrected corpse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Instagram Story also featured a picture of her much-talked-about red carpet look side by side with a picture of Gollum up top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen that is a fisheye lens,\u201d the \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Darling\u201d director said. \u201cAnd I admit, is that my best angle? Was that my best-ever look? No.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Wilde blamed her \u201cstartling\u201d image on the camera\u2019s fisheye lens, but also acknowledged it wasn\u2019t her most flattering look. <span class=\"credit\">oliviawilde\/instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The mother of two joked in a video with her brother, \u201cI\u2019m not dead.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">oliviawilde\/instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a startling image,\u201d she acknowledged. \u201cIt\u2019s a fisheye lens. I don\u2019t know why I was so close to the camera, I didn\u2019t need to have to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added with a laugh, \u201cThat\u2019s not the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilde then joked, \u201cDo you have any more questions? I\u2019m not dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress was at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 24 to promote her new film, \u201cThe Invite.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Wilde\u2019s fans defended her after SFGate\u2019s video went viral, blaming her different look on a bad camera lens and lighting. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Wilde, pictured here earlier this month, did look noticeably different in her red carpet pics from the event as compared to SFGate\u2019s video. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While she was subjected to cruel comments from SFGate\u2019s viral Instagram post of their interview with her, she also had fans that came to her defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unflattering lighting and a bad camera lens. She otherwise looks beautiful and is aging gracefully,\u201d\u00a0one fan tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it may have been the camera settings, or a filter of whoever took that video. I saw a news clip where she didn\u2019t look as bad,\u201d another fan agreed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/03\/celebrity-news\/olivia-wilde-reacts-to-being-compared-to-lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-gollum-after-viral-red-carpet-look\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Wilde laughed off trolls comparing her viral red carpet look to the character Gollum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/126921750.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}