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A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, but Emma Stone couldn’t go by just anything.
One year after the Bugonia star admitted she wishes she could go by her birth name, Emily Stone, she shared that she wasn’t always dead set on her now-famous professional moniker.
“I actually adopted a stage name for six months,” Emma revealed during an Oct. 22 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “Because the Screen Actors Guild, it’s like a business bureau, you can only have one person with that name. I was 16, and I decided I wanted to be ‘Riley,’ so I was ‘Riley Stone.’”
And while the two-time Oscar winner thought it was a “beautiful” name, an awkward encounter she had made her settle on her current title.
“I had a guest part on Malcolm in the Middle,” she recalled. “And they kept going, ‘Riley,’ ‘Riley,’ and I had no idea who they were talking to. Truly. So I was like, ‘I cannot be Riley.’ It came out of nowhere. I was just like, ‘Cool name. I’ll just be Riley.’”
