interview with Playboy<\/a>, the \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Darling\u201d star said she also wanted to honor the writers in her family, \u201cmany of whom created pen names for their careers.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI have a grandfather who changed his name to James Helvick to write the novel\u00a0\u2018Beat the Devil\u2019, which got turned into a movie with Humphrey Bogart,\u201d she shared. <\/p>\n
\u201cI always thought having a pen name was so romantic. I honestly didn\u2019t foresee that people would look at it as a sexy name, like, \u2018She\u2019s\u00a0wiiiild!’\u201d Wilde added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnytime a story is written about me, the title is usually some pun on my last name: \u2018Born to Be Wilde\u2019 or \u2018Take a Walk on the Wilde Side.\u2019 I don\u2019t mind it; it\u2019s just not something I ever considered when I picked the name.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilde\u2019s parents, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn (seen above with their daughter in 2009), are both journalists. FilmMagic<\/p>\n
One of the \u201cHouse\u201d alum\u2019s grandfathers and some of her aunts and uncles are also writers and journalists. Getty Images for SAG-AFTRA Foundation<\/p>\n
Wilde\u2019s mom, Leslie Cockburn, is an award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker and author who produced for \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for her dad, Andrew Cockburn, he is a British journalist, author and magazine editor who produced documentaries for PBS.<\/p>\n
Wilde\u2019s paternal grandfather and some of her aunts and uncles are also writers and journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Call her by her name. Olivia Wilde set the record straight on how to pronounce her real last…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":901226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[568,185,1857,172,171,53,202775,5158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-901225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-olivia-wilde","tag-podcasts","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116834533805383263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}