If you thought Emma Stone was Emma Stone's real name, you are very wrong.
The two-time Oscar winner shared this week that she would like to be called by her given name, Emily Stone, despite her many years in show business using that. other nickname.
In a joint interview with “The Curse” co-star Nathan Fielder, Fielder said he would use the “La La Land” and “Poor Things” actor's real name during the interview, in line with his close friends and collaborators.
“Before we continue, I would like to say something. “Her name is Emily, but professionally she goes by Emma,” the “Nathan for You” and “The Rehearsal” star told the Hollywood Reporter. “So, when there are people who don't know her, I end up saying Emma. But from now on I'll just say Emily.”
“You can say Emma. “You can say anything,” Stone responded. The 35-year-old star noted that people call her Emily when they meet her, including people she works with, like Fielder, whom she met through her husband, the “Saturday Night Live” writer-director. , Dave McCary.
“It's just because my name was taken [by another actress in the Screen Actors Guild]”Stone explained. “Then I got scared a couple of years ago. For some reason, I thought, 'I can't do it anymore.' Just call me Emily. “Nathan calls me Em, which is easier.”
Stone added that “it would be really cool” if fans used his real name.
“I would like to be Emily,” she said.
Stone initially registered with SAG as Riley Stone when she was about 16, before the union merged with AFTRA in 2012, but changed it to Emma Stone six months later.
“For a 16-year-old, choosing a new name is an interesting prospect,” Stone told W magazine in 2017. “So for about six months they called me Riley. I got a guest spot on 'Malcolm in the Middle' and one day they called me: 'Riley! Riley! Riley! We need you on set, Riley!' and had no idea who they were talking to. At that moment I realized that it simply couldn't be Riley. Then I became Emma. But I miss Emily. I would love to get it back.”
She also previously said on “The Tonight Show” that she preferred Emma at the time she cast him because she is a big fan of Emma Bunton, better known as Baby Spice of the Spice Girls.
The movie star is one of many SAG-AFTRA members who have changed their names to join the union: Diane Keaton is actually Diane Hall, Nicholas Cage changed his name from Nicholas Coppola to distance himself from his famous filmmaking family, Michael Keaton is actually Michael Douglas (not to be confused with the famous Oscar winner, whose late father, Kirk Douglas, changed his name from Issur Danielovitch Demsky). David Tennant's real name is David McDonald, Ashton Kutcher is actually Christopher Ashton Kutcher, Vin Diesel was born Mark Sinclair, and Elizabeth Banks is actually Elizabeth Mitchell, to name just a few.
