Emma Stone Wants To Be Called By Her Real First Name Now
Emma Stone wants to be called by her real first name now. Ever since the actress landed another Oscar, this time for her role in the A24 film, Poor Things, Stone is done being Emma.
Stone, 35, recently revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that her close friends and co-stars typically refer to her by a different name. Born Emily Jean Stone, when the actress registered for the Screen Actors Guild at 16 years old, the name “Emily Stone” was already taken.
She initially chose to go by “Riley Stone,” but after being called Riley while guest starring on Malcolm in the Middle, she had “an identity crisis” because she didn’t know who they were talking to. Then, she changed her stage name to Emma, which her mom always called her.
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She later said during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that she was super blonde, so she wanted to be called Emma “because of Baby Spice and guess what, now I am.” In second grade, she was pleading with her teacher to call her Emma. The Cruella star added that she was also toying around with the idea of going by Emily J. Stone, like Michael J. Fox, but she didn’t think she could “pull off the J.” Emma was closest to Emily, and most people close to her would call her Em anyway.
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In a joint interview with her The Curse co-star Nathan Fielder, Fielder told THR he planned to call her Emily during the chat. The comedian explained that when people don’t know her, he calls her Emma but will call her Emily from then on.
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Emily coolly responded that he could call her Emma or anything but opened up about how she recently decided she’d rather go by her birth name. “I freaked out a couple of years ago,” she continued. “For some reason, I was like, ‘I can’t do it anymore. Just call me Emily.’” Fielder calls her “Em,” which she finds easier.
Meanwhile, if a fan approached her and called her Emily, she said, “That would be so nice. I would like to be Emily.”
The Curse is now streaming on multiple platforms. Watch the trailer below:
