{"id":277794,"date":"2026-02-03T02:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277794\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:10:09","slug":"rosanna-arquette-reveals-weve-been-mispronouncing-her-name-learn-the-correct-way-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277794\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosanna Arquette Reveals We’ve Been Mispronouncing Her Name \u2014 Learn the Correct Way (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n

Rosanna Arquette is currently starring on the big screen alongside Charli xcx in The Moment<\/p>\n

In an interview with PEOPLE, she opens up about how she really pronounces her name \u2014 and it’s not like the Toto song<\/p>\n

The Desperately Seeking Susan star also notes that there was more than one rock song written about her, including this power ballad<\/p>\n

Rosanna Arquette<\/a> has been a Hollywood mainstay for over 50 years now, since starring in her first major film, The Executioner’s Song, in 1982 when she was just 21. She later starred in pop culture touchstones like 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan, and 1994’s Pulp Fiction.<\/p>\n

Now, decades later, she’s embracing a big screen return with her role in the Charli xcx film The Moment, and opening up in an interview with PEOPLE<\/a> about her career, activism, inspiring various rock songs, and how her name is actually pronounced.<\/p>\n

“It’s Rose-ahna,” she says, pronouncing the second half like Anna from Frozen, and not like ‘banana.’ “That’s how I’ve always said it. But I don’t care. I’ll answer to anything!”<\/p>\n

\"RosannaRosanna Arquette with Charli xcx in The Moment, now playing in select theaters <\/p>\n

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She suspects most people think it’s pronounced like the Toto song, especially since she was the one who inspired it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople come up to me about that all the time,\u201d she says, explaining that the tune was written by Toto’s David Paich in the early 1980s, when she was dating founding member Steve Porcaro.<\/p>\n

She says the song isn’t necessarily a tribute to her, but Paich definitely borrowed her name for the title. \u201cI was around them all the time. They were wonderful musicians,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Arquette admits there’s another popular song from the ’80s that was written about her: \u201cIn Your Eyes,” Peter Gabriel’s 1989 hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was about me,\u201d she tells PEOPLE of the song that was made famous for being the theme song in the movie\u00a0Say Anything.\u00a0(Arquette and Gabriel, 75, dated for several years, and they lived together in the U.K. for a while.)<\/p>\n

\"PeterPeter Gabriel and actress Rosanna Arquette in 1991 <\/p>\n

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\u201cI love musicians. Most of my friends are musicians. Chrissie Hynde is my daughter’s Godmother,” Arquette says, referring to the lead singer of The Pretenders.<\/p>\n

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These days, Arquette says she’s just thrilled to be working again, after a tumultuous few years that included a divorce and a move to the east coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m okay without a partner,\u201d she says of embracing being single. “I\u2019m so grateful for where I\u2019m at. Even with all the bad stuff, because there\u2019s always a lesson in that. I just know that I\u2019m ready for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Moment is now playing in select theaters.<\/p>\n

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