Olivia Wilde reacts to being in comparison with Gollum after viral interview look sparked concern

Olivia Wilde has reacted to the wild Gollum comparisons made on social media.

The Change-Up actor, 42, took to Instagram Tales over the weekend (2 Could), to handle the viral interview she did final month (24 April).

Wilde was answering questions on her new film The Invite on the the San Francisco Worldwide Movie Competition, when throughout a purple carpet dialogue with the San Francisco Chronicle, some viewers thought she regarded just like the Lord of the Rings character.

“The cameraman actually doing a disservice right here,” one particular person penned, whereas one other added: “She appears to be like as if she had discovered the one ring.”

“Fairly quickly this will likely be Olivia Wilde’s subsequent transformation,” another person mentioned alongside a side-by-side pic.

“She is unquestionably holding on to the one ring wanting like that.”

‘It was a fish-eye lens’

Wilde captioned her video response: “Depart it to your little brother to provide the most quantity of s**t.”

Her brother, Charlie Cockburn, is heard asking: “Olivia Wilde, do you care to handle latest rumors that you are a resurrected corpse?”

“Pay attention, that is a fish-eye lens. And I admit, is that my finest angle? Was that my best-ever look? No. No, it is startling. It is a startling picture,” the Do not Fear Darling director responded.

“It was a fish-eye lens. I do not know why I used to be so near the digital camera. I did not must be. That is not the reality,” Wilde added as she and her brother laughed.

“Do you’ve got any extra questions?” she continued, earlier than including, “I am not useless.”

Wilde directs her third film

The Invite is her third time directing after 2010’s Booksmart and 2022’s Do not Fear Darling.

The movie, which acquired a standing ovation on the the Sundance Movie Competition in January, is customized from 2020’s The Folks Upstairs.

It follows a married couple (Wilde and Seth Rogen) who’re invited to a cocktail party by their neighbours which spirals unexpectedly.

Rogen performs Wilde’s beau, whereas Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton painting one other couple.

“I really feel like a director who’s fortunate sufficient to often get to behave with actually nice individuals. And this film was a possibility to behave with a few of my favourite actors of all time,” she mentioned on Jake’s Takes.

Why Wilde determined to additionally act in The Invite

Wilde went on to clarify why she determined to additionally put herself within the movie: “It was the actors who got here to me and requested if I’d play the function as a result of we had been workshopping the fabric collectively at that time for some time.

“And we actually understood it collectively, and it felt pure that I’d bounce in as their scene accomplice as a result of I knew what

what we have been making an attempt to say and all of us, at that time, had simply melded into this household.

“So once they referred to as me and mentioned, ‘Olivia, we would like you to do it’, I used to be so moved as a result of, once more, like I worship these individuals, proper?

“So it was very cool and we had a lot enjoyable.”

The Invite comes out on 26 June 2026.