The actress had to adopt a stage name due to a rule of the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild, which led her to have an identity crisis.
Emma Stone. Photo: NA
Throughout history, dozens of artists They adopted a name different from their own with which they finally end up being known worldwide. Examples of this are Marilyn Monroe, Vin Diesel or Charlie Sheen. AND Emma Stone She is not the exception to the rule, although she now expressed regret.
Before entering the film industry, the performer was known as Emily Jean Stone. Far from changing your name because you want to look for something more exclusive or better sounding, He did it by a rule of SAG-AFTRA, the Hollywood actors union.
Emma Stone. Photo: Reuters
And to enter cannot have the same name as an existing member. “My name was taken by another interpreter, there was already an Emily Stone in the profession,” she said in an interview for The Hollywood Reporter.
Although he said that At first he had no problem with it.recognized that over the years This decision caused him to have an identity crisis. because she wanted to be known by her real name. “A couple of years ago I got scared. I went crazy and thought: ‘I can’t go on like this anymore’. So I started asking my classmates to call me Em,” the actress confessed, and she explained that when she meets a classmate, she introduces herself directly as Emily.
Meanwhile, she pointed out that she also wants the public to recognize her as such: “It would be great. “I would like to be Emily”.
Emma Stone in Poor Things. Photo: Capture.
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Why did you choose Emma as your stage name?
When he had to choose his new identity out of obligation, he did not take long to make the decision because I already knew what name I wanted: Emma, after Emma Bunton of the Spice Girls.one of the favorite musical groups of his childhood.
“When I was a little girl, I was super blonde and my real name is Emily, but I wanted to be called Emma because of Baby Spice and guess what? “Now I am”he had told in 2018 on Jimmy Fallon’s show, The Tonight Show.
