Why Emma Stone Doesn’t Use Her Real Name

With two Oscars under her belt, it’s going to be difficult 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 could go by her real name and not the stage name she chose out of necessity. In the chat, which also included him The curse co-star Nathan Fielder, Stone shared that she would really like to be called “Emily,” but understands that’s a lost cause now.

“No. That would be so nice. I wish I was Emily,” she replied when asked whether or not she would correct fans who use her real name, adding that “the people I work with” call her Emily “when I get to know them.”

Stone started going by the name Emma because another actress named Emily Stone was already a member of SAG-AFTRA.

“Then I freaked out a few years ago,” she said. “For some reason I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Just call me Emily.’ Nathan calls me Em, which is easier.”

Earlier, Stone explained why she chose Emma and how it was 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, aka 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 third grade, did I go to the teacher on the first day and ask her to call me Emma? Yes I did it. And was it because of Emma Lee Bunton from the Spice Girls? Yes it was.”

Talk to THR about The cursewhich the publication describes as a “deeply disconcerting but often hilarious series,” Stone explained that it was originally pitched as a comedy.

“With the initial idea for the series and the pilot script, it was definitely more overtly comedic. It was like a half-hour comedy, the way I think it was sold at Showtime.” , she explained. “And then they were shocked to find out that it was an hour-long drama, and that sort of developed as they wrote the series, and it became more and more intense as time went on. I was shocked, for me, it’s definitely not a comedy, but that wasn’t what I was thinking when I went into it.”