Olivia Wilde covers Allure: gorgeous or one of the worst Photoshops ever?
Olivia Wilde covers the October issue of Allure to promote Rush. At least I think she’s promoting that movie. Forgive me if I sound flippant or obnoxious — it’s so difficult to tell what Olivia is promoting here because she’s really awful at choosing film projects. The woman has talent, and she is witty as hell. What’s the problem? She has a terrible box-office record. In Olivia’s defense, she has a very able publicist who is able to score her multiple magazine covers for any given film. Her agent, however, sucks. Who ever thought The Incredible Burt Wonderstone would be a success?
Anyway, this Allure magazine shoot is not good. Olivia is what I would consider to be a great and striking beauty, but the person in charge of the Photoshop got carried away with the perspective functions. Why does her face look so flat? It’s scary, and I’m guessing Olivia’s publicist was not happy about this representation of her client. The Rush-inspired editorial isn’t any more flattering than the cover. Poor Livvy. This shoot will not help her career, and no one deserves this.
The interview is kind of a crap shoot and only makes sense with backstory. Olivia discusses how Jennifer Aniston helped her through the maze of out-of-context dying-vagina comments and “only kidding” claims of Kenyan marathon sex with Jason Sudeikis:
Her new BFF Jennifer Aniston: “I reached out to Jen, who has, of course, been through the wringer, and I explained the situation and I said I needed advice on how to deal with these things. She wrote me one of the most gracious, wise emails describing her journey and really wonderful words of advice about how to deal with it. And in the end, I think I would do it all again exactly the same way.”
On how she met Jason Sudeikis: “I met Jason, and I thought he was so charming. He’s a great dancer and I’m a sucker for great dancers. 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.”
She’s planning her wedding: “[It should be a] funny, silly wedding. I trust everyone to not leak any information. I just hope no one ends up flying a stupid helicopter over it or anything dumb like that.”
She doesn’t do pleasure-free dieting: “Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything – we’ve distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, ‘Oh, I don’t eat gluten, I don’t eat cheese. I don’t eat this. So I eat cardboard.'”
On her bod: “I’ve thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the 70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.”
[From Allure]
I can’t help it. I am starting to like this woman. Olivia is terribly sharp and tragically self aware. She’s sort of full of herself, but that’s the way of Hollywood. There’s still some hope. Even if Rush fails miserably, at least Olivia has several movies still in production. Among these projects is a Paul Haggis-directed flick wherein she gets naked with Liam Neeson. Neeson stated that he was super nervous about this project. As he should be.
Photos courtesy of Allure
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