Meet Emily Stone. Emma Stone would like to go back to using her real name if possible. The actor recently discussed being called Emily.
Sitting down with The Hollywood Reporter, Stone opened up about her first name. Her The Curse co-star Nathan Fielder explained something to the outlet.
“Before we continue, I’d like to say something. Her name’s Emily, but she goes by Emma professionally,” he explained. “So when there’s people that don’t know her, I end up saying Emma. But I’m going to just say Emily from here on.”
Stone told the outlet, “You can say Emma. You can say anything.” She explained that she adopted Emma because Emily Stone was already taken. “When I get to know them, people that I work with do. It’s just because my name was taken (by another actor in the Screen Actors Guild),” she said.
However, she recently decided to reclaim her birth name. “Then 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.’”She added, “Nathan calls me Em, which is easier.”
However, it’s not a huge deal. But she said she would love it if fans approached her and started referring to her as Emily. “That would be so nice. I would like to be Emily,” she said.
Emma Stone Explains Origin of Stage Name
The actor also explained the origin of her stage name as well. It was due to the Spice Girls. She said, “So growing up 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.”
She said that it helped inspire her to go with the name. It’s a nickname that she used even as a child.
“It wasn’t necessarily because of her,” she added. “But yes, in second grade, did I go up to the teacher on the first day and ask her to call me Emma? Yes, I did. And was it because of Emma Lee Bunton from the Spice Girls? Yes, it was.”
She’s also stayed a big fan of the Spice Girls over the years. “I saw them in concert in the ‘90s. I saw them at O2 Arena in 2008. And they recently announced a new tour and I will be going to that somehow. I don’t think tickets are on sale yet, but I’m gonna figure it out,” s