Why Emma Stone Doesn't Use Her Real Name

With two Oscars to her name, it's going to be hard for Emma Stone to campaign for a name change now. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress and Louis Vuitton ambassador explained that in an ideal world, she'd be able to go by her real name and not the stage name she chose out of necessity. In the chat, which also included her The Curse co-star Nathan Fielder, Stone shared that she'd really like to go by "Emily," but understands that it's a lost cause now.

"No. That would be so nice. I would like to be Emily," she said when asked whether or not she'd correct fans who use her real name, adding that "people that I work with" call her Emily "when I get to know them."

Stone started to go by Emma because another actress named Emily Stone was already a member of SAG-AFTRA. 

"Then, I freaked out a couple of years ago," she explained. "For some reason, I was like, 'I can’t do it anymore. Just call me Emily.' Nathan calls me Em, which is easier."

Previously, Stone opened up about why she chose Emma—and how it's a nod to the Spice Girls. In November 2018, Stone said that when she was younger, she wanted to be called Emma because her favorite Spice Girl was Emma Bunton, a.k.a. Baby Spice.

“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 during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “It wasn’t necessarily because of her, 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."

Speaking to THR about The Curse, which the publication described as a "deeply discomfiting yet frequently hilarious series," Stone explained that it was initially billed as a comedy.

"With the initial idea of the show, and the pilot script, it was definitely more overtly comedic. It was like a half-hour comedy, the way I think it was sold to Showtime," she shared. "And then they were shocked to discover it was a one-hour drama, and that sort of developed as they were writing the show, and it got more and more intense as time went on. I was shocked. To me, it’s decidedly not a comedy, but that wasn’t what I thought going in."

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