Olivia Wilde Reveals How to Pronounce Her Real Last Name

Olivia Wilde Reacts to Rumors of Screaming Match With Florence Pugh on Don’t Worry Darling Set

Don’t worry if you’ve pronounced Olivia Wilde’s name wrong, darling.

Most people don’t know that the 42-year-old’s real name, Olivia Cockburn, is actually pronounced like “Coburn.”

“It's a Scottish name,” the Don’t Worry Darling director said to Dax Shepard on the June 29 episode of Armchair Expert. “And it's very much like ‘A Boy Named Sue.’ You know what I mean? Like it's character building.”

As one may expect, it wasn’t easy growing up with a suggestive last name—even if her parents are accomplished journalists Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn. Although she admitted she was sometimes bullied because of her name, Wilde found a silver lining in the teasing.

“It was an early important lesson in like laughing along, not in a way that was like giving into the bullies,” she added. “In a way that, I don't know, just like I thought it was funny too.”

But regardless of their names, Wilde holds her family in high regard, noting how much she looks up to all of her relatives.

“I was so proud to be a part of my family because I come from multiple generations of journalists,” the House alum continued. “And so I grew up with both my grandmother, my grandfather, my uncles, my dad, my cousins, everybody was a journalist on my dad's side. And my mom has this really interesting family.”

And clearly, Wilde has carried on the tradition of creating impactful work, as she has gone on to be a successful actor and director. However, it hasn’t always been a smooth journey for the mother of two, who shares kids Otis, 12, and Daisy, 9, with ex Jason Sudeikis.

In fact, Wilde has finally been opening up about the drama surrounding her film Don’t Worry Darling, including the rumor that she and costar Florence Pugh got into a screaming match on set.

“I have never had a screaming match on my set,” she told The Cut in an interview published June 24. “I was never not available on set. I wanted to be like, ‘None of this is true.’”

But all of these experiences—from public scrutiny to getting bullied for her real name—have made her stronger.

“If you can push through the moment you have previously identified as the worst possible thing that could happen to you, whether that is divorce or the internet hating you or whatever,” she told the outlet, “you are forged into something way better than you could have possibly imagined.”

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