How Lucy Liu picked baby Rockwell's name

by BabyCenter Staff posted in Celebrities
BabyCenter7 is a blog series that features celebrity parents you know and love answering the same seven questions with their own personal spin.
In Kung Fu Panda 3 which opens in theaters today, Lucy Liu plays Master Viper one of the members of the elite Furious Five Kung Fu warriors.
She's also one of the newest members of another fierce crew: multi-tasking Hollywood moms like co-stars Angelina Jolie (Master Tigress) and Kate Hudson (Mei Mei) who manage to tackle new ground in their careers with every project and prioritize family life.
Lucy?s son Rockwell Lloyd was born in August via gestational surrogate. Why Rockwell" "I had a short list of surnames, actually, that I really liked. And there was something very powerful about using a surname as a first name to me," says Lucy. "My parents came from China and they met in New York. And I'm first generation. I think that what I wanted was to bring something very much of this world, of America to him. "A lot of people ask me if it was based on Norman Rockwell, and it wasn't. My mother used to work for Rockefeller University in the science department and that just always echoed in my head a lot. But you can't really name a baby Rockefeller!" she adds with a laugh.
His middle name also has family significance. Lloyd is Lucy's brother's middle name or "center name" as she explains, "And I wanted to keep the same center name as my br...
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