{"id":99664,"date":"2025-10-23T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/99664\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:11:10","slug":"emma-stone-first-stage-name-riley-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/99664\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone First Stage Name Riley Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Does Emma Stone Believe in Aliens? She Says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/emma_stone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Emma Stone<\/a> couldn\u2019t go by just anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One year after the Bugonia star admitted she wishes she could go by her birth name, Emily Stone, she shared that she wasn\u2019t always dead set on her now-famous professional moniker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually adopted a stage name for six months,\u201d Emma revealed during an Oct. 22 appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wpjQjusb_BY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>. \u201cBecause the Screen Actors Guild, it\u2019s like a business bureau, you can only have one person with that name. I was 16, and I decided I wanted to be \u2018Riley,\u2019 so I was \u2018Riley Stone.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while the two-time Oscar winner thought it was a \u201cbeautiful\u201d name, an awkward encounter she had made her settle on her current title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a guest part on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1415585\/malcolm-in-the-middle-actor-erik-per-sullivans-rare-outing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Malcolm in the Middle<\/a>,\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd they kept going, \u2018Riley,\u2019 \u2018Riley,\u2019 and I had no idea who they were talking to. Truly. So I was like, \u2018I cannot be Riley.\u2019 It came out of nowhere. I was just like, \u2018Cool name. I\u2019ll just be Riley.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does Emma Stone Believe in Aliens? She Says&#8230; A rose by any other name would smell just as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-99664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}