Olivia Wilde Laughs Off Trolls Comparing Her to Gollum After Viral Red Carpet Video: ‘Is That My Best Angle? No. It’s Startling’ but ‘I’m Not Dead’
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Olivia Wilde confronted social media criticisms over her recent appearance San Francisco International Film Festival by laughing off the comments and telling her Instagram followers: “I’m not dead.” Wilde was interviewed on the festival’s red carpet by the San Francisco Chronicle ahead of a screening for her new movie, “The Invite.” Video of the red carpet interview resulted in Wilde being compared to Gollum from “The Lord of the Rings,” among other rude comments on social media.
“Leave it to your little brother to give you the maximum amount of shit,” Wilde captioned a post on her Instagram story in which she confronted the Gollum comparisons by having her brother, Charlie, ask: “Olivia Wilde, do you care to address recent rumors that you’re a resurrected corpse?”
“Listen, that’s a fish-eye lens. And I admit, is that my best angle? Was that my best-ever look? No. No, it’s startling. It’s a startling image,” Wilde responded (via People). “It was a fish-eye lens. I don’t know why I was so close to the camera. I didn’t have to be. That’s not the truth.”
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“Do you have any more questions?” Wild asked her brother before adding with a laugh: “I’m not dead.”
Wilde premiered “The Invite” to rave reviews at Sundance, where the film was picked up by A24 in a deal worth more than $12 million. Wilde also stars in the movie alongside Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton. Rogen and Wilde play a married couple on thin ice who have an unexpected night when they invite their upstairs neighbors over for dinner. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman called the movie in his review a “bravura dinner-party dramedy” that “keeps you laughing and never stops surprising.”
In addition to “The Invite,” Wilde also attended Sundance as the star of Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex.” The festival was viewed as something of a career comeback for her after her last directorial effort, “Don’t Worry Darling,” was overshadowed by her off-screen romance with its star Harry Styles and reports of tension with her leading lady, Florence Pugh. As Variety wrote: “With ‘The Invite’ and ‘I Want Your Sex’ Wilde returns to the center of the frame, reminding audiences not only of what they’ve been missing, but what they failed to appreciate all along.”
“The Invite” is set to open in theaters this July.
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