Last April, Emma Stone expressed her desire to work under her real name instead of her stage name.
The actress was born Emily, but as she told The Hollywood Reporter, she had to change her name because someone else in the industry already had the name Emily Stone.
Since then she has not used the name Emma until recently when she decided to reclaim her real name. “For some reason I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Just call me Emily,'” she told THR. She also said that people at her job sometimes call her Emily once she “gets to know them.”
Fast forward to today, and Emma attended the Cannes Film Festival press conference for her upcoming film. types of kindness When a reporter called her name.
When the reporter said this, Emma smiled brightly. Director Yorgos Lanthimos, sitting next to her, thought the interviewer had confused her name and tried to correct her, but Emma was convinced that reporter Yorgos had got it right. “My name is Emily. Thank you,” she said, smiling. “Very good.”
People online thought it was the sweetest and most adorable thing. “Mmm, that’s so healthy!,” one fan wrote on Reddit.
“But she’s really lovely,” someone agreed, adding, “From now on, she will be ‘Emily’ to me.”
Honestly, it’s the same.
