Emma Stone wants to be called by her real name

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actress and two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone revealed that she prefers to go by her given name, Emily, when possible.

In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter, alongside her The Curse costar Nathan Fielder, the actress when whether she’d correct a fan who called her by her real name instead of Emma, she responded, “No. That would be so nice. I would like to be Emily.”

Stone said “people that I work with” call her Emily, “when I get to know them,” and noted that she made her stage name “Emma Stone” because Emily Stone “was taken” by another actress.

“Then I freaked out a couple of years ago,” she told the outlet. “For some reason, I was like, ‘I can’t do it anymore. Just call me Emily.’ Nathan calls me Em, which is easier.”

Back in November 2018, Stone said that incidentally, when she was younger, she did want to be called Emma because of her favorite Spice Girl: Baby Spice, a.k.a. Emma Bunton.

“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,” the Poor Things star said during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Backtracking slightly, Stone continued, “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,” she added.

Host Jimmy Fallon then helped Stone take an online quiz that would reveal which member from the group she was most like.

And as the results came in, she seemed absolutely shocked with her results. “I’m Posh Spice?” Stone gasped. “That is not — I’m shocked. I’m shocked.”