Stranded With Olivia Wilde

The ridiculously sexy 25-year-old actress Olivia Wilde is, believe it or not, a reader, as are, apparently, many of her fans. Cold Case box setAfter she appeared, squirming all over a beach in a bikini, on the cover of last month’s GQ, “I suddenly realized how many people read GQ,” she says with a laugh, Gilmore Girls series dvd as we walk into the Strand to browse while she’s visiting town. Or at least they look at the pictures. House dvd box set “It’s definitely rocked my world a little bit.”
Still, she’ll take it, especially since she’s here to promote Fix, Scrubs dvd box setan energetic, semi-improvised, and decidedly no-budget road movie about a pair of documentary filmmakers rushing to get an addict brother to rehab. Desperate Housewives seasons 1-5 dvd It was directed by Wilde’s husband, Tao Ruspoli, and is based loosely on an incident involving his own brother. Criminal Minds dvd box setIt’s a far cry from the Jack Black–Michael Cera caveman comedy Year One she appeared in this summer, Gossip Girl 1-2 dvd box set though perhaps a bit less of a stretch for her oddball Dr. Remy Hadley, a.k.a. Thirteen, on the Fox hit House dvd box set.
“This could be my parents’ living room,” she says of the shelves of books. She means it: Wilde’s parents are Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, True Blood seasons 1-2 dvd she a longtime producer for 60 Minutes and Frontline, he a journalist whose books include Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, Entourage seasons 1-6 dvdand Catastrophic Legacy. (Her real name is Olivia Jane Cockburn.) They used to have everyone from Grey’s anatomy dvd box setChristopher Hitchens to Mick Jagger over. She recalls when, as an adult, she finally started reading the work of Seymour Hersh: “It took some time before I realized, ‘Hey, wait, that’s Sy!’ ” So what’s she reading these days? She points to copies of Philip Gourevitch’s CSI Las Vegas dvd box set We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families and Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost. “Believe it or not, it was research for Tron Legacy,” the sequel to the 1982 film.
Not that it was always easy the office dvdbeing the child of writers. “When I was very young, I used to see books as the thing keeping everyone from playing with me. one tree hill dvd box setSo there’d be long stretches in the afternoons when everyone was off in their reading corners, sprawled on couches. Ghost Whisperer dvd box set And I would go up to them and do this little dance to try and break their concentration, which of course they never did: bones dvd‘I’m bored!’ ‘Go read a book!’ ‘I’m bored!’ ‘Go read a book!’ And of course, now I dream of having long stretches when I’ll be able to read a book.”