Emma Stone
Karwai Tang/WireImageEmma Stone has said she’s finally ready to be called by her real name after a Hollywood rule forced her to give up that name.
The two-time Oscar winner, 35, revealed she prefers her birth name and has struggled with being known as Emma for years.
Chatting with her The curse Costar Nathan Fielder“For some reason I thought, ‘I can’t do it anymore,'” the actress admitted. Just call me Emily.’”
Upon request from The Hollywood Reporter When interviewed on Wednesday, April 24, about whether she would reprimand a fan if they called her by her real name instead of Emma, she replied, “No. That would be so nice. I want to be Emily.”
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She explained that “people I work with” call her Emily once she gets to know her better. She explained that she was asked to give her stage name “Emma Stone” because Emily Stone was “taken” by another actress who was a member of SAG-AFTRA before her.
However, in 2018, Stone revealed that when she was younger, she actually wanted to be called Emma because of her favorite Spice Girl: Baby Spice, aka “Baby Spice.” Emma Bunton.
Stone won her second Oscar at this year’s awards ceremony in March
Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images“Growing up I was super blonde and my real name is Emily, but because of Baby Spice I wanted to be called Emma and guess what? Now I am,” the Poor things Star said during a performance The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “It wasn’t necessarily her fault, but yeah, did I go to the teacher on the first day of second grade 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.”
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Elsewhere in the chat, Stone said she wasn’t the least bit upset with the Oscars host Jimmy Kimmelis show joke about her film Poor things.
“Did he upset me?” She asked about her reaction to the ceremonial gag. “NO! I didn’t call him an idiot… What did I say? I didn’t call him an idiot. I wasn’t mad at him at all. I’ll have to look that up.”
During the Oscars broadcast in March, Kimmel, 56, introduced footage of the Best Picture nominee Poor things. After showing a handful of scenes, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! The host quipped: “That was all the parts of Poor things We get to show on TV.”