{"id":412042,"date":"2026-05-05T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412042\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:07:08","slug":"olivia-wilde-explains-startling-red-carpet-photos-that-shocked-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412042\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Wilde explains \u2018startling\u2019 red carpet photos that shocked the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">In a new Instagram story overnight, Wilde showed she\u2019s taken the debate over her appearance with good humour \u2013 even after copping some ribbing from her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLeave it to your little brother to give you the maximum amount of s**t,\u201d she captioned the post, which showed her lounging on a sofa in a hoodie, her brother Charlie behind the camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Wilde topped the video off with a pair of hilariously savage side-by-side photos: the pic of her that caused all the controversy, and Gollum from Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Wilde\u2019s red carpet interview was with San Francisco outlet SFGate, who originally posted it to their Instagram account \u2013 where it was met with a flurry of comments calling out the outlet for doing Wilde dirty.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Wilde humorously responded on Instagram, sharing a playful post with her brother. Photo \/ Instagram\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Wilde humorously responded on Instagram, sharing a playful post with her brother. Photo \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe cameraman really doing a disservice here,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Another asked if the interview had been shot with a \u201cfish-eye lens\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI see the camera man is using the \u2018[husband], can you take a picture of me?\u2019 angle,\u201d another joked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The best way to handle a red carpet controversy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a new Instagram story overnight, Wilde showed she\u2019s taken the debate over her appearance with good humour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3376,16347,66046,3936,156,37119,4223,359,685,111,139,69,15363,254,15406,27053,195654,1361,223,686,93836],"class_list":["post-412042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-addressed","tag-carpet","tag-director","tag-entertainment","tag-explains","tag-hollywood","tag-internet","tag-last","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olivia","tag-photos","tag-red","tag-shocked","tag-startling","tag-that","tag-the","tag-week","tag-wilde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}