Emma stone has two Oscars, two Golden Globes and countless iconic roles. She just wanted one more thing: for people to call her by her real birth name.
Born Emily Jean Stone in 1988, the actor said in 2017 that she was forced to choose a different nickname as a teenager. “My real name is Emily Stone, but when I started acting, that name was already taken by another actress so I had to come up with another name.” (The actors’ union SAG-AFTRA requires each member to have a unique working name.)
“For a 16-year-old, choosing a new name is exciting.”
But “Emma” was not her first choice. A look at Stone’s IMDB page reveals that her early contributions include appearances on shows such as Medium, under the name “Riley Stone.” That lasted about six months, she said in an interview with W. “I did a guest appearance on Malcolm is in the middle, and one day they said, ‘Riley! Riley!’ and I don’t know who they’re talking to.”
“So I changed it to ‘Emma’, because it’s closer to Emily.”
That said, at the time, she had the option of Emily J. Stone, but didn’t exercise it, saying “I don’t think I could have picked the ‘J.’” Another factor What may have led to this decision was the fondness for the Spice Girls in particular Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton. In an interview with Jimmy Fallon from 2018, Stone said “Growing up, I was blonde…I wanted to be called Emma because of Baby Spice.
“And guess what? Now it is,” Stone said. It’s unclear whether in the years since that interview she’s become less of a Spice Girl or more of her “J” era, but her desire to win back “Emily” appears to have been successful. rapidly developing. Hollywood Reporter in a conversation published this week, she was again referred to as emily and by her co-interviewer Curse costar Nathan Fiedler.
“I want to say something,” Fielder said as the interview began. “Her name is Emily, but she goes by Emma professionally. So when someone doesn’t know her, I say Emma. But from now on I’ll just say Emily.”
“I was very nervous a few years ago,” Stone responded. “For some reason, I thought, ‘I can’t do that anymore. Just call me Emily.”
That panic subsided a bit, Stone said, to the point where she said “You can say Emma. You can say anything,” attitude. However, she still longs for her birth name. If a fan calls her “Emily,” “That’s cool,” Stone said. “I want to be Emily.”
