11 Celebs Who Took A Stage Name, And 11 Who Refused

August 11, 2023 by Owen

11 Celebs Who Took A Stage Identify, And 11 Who Refused

The singer instructed Cosmopolitan, “I believe I had the foresight to know that being me wasn’t sufficient. I needed to turn out to be anyone utterly completely different. On the time, I felt that Ashley didn’t need to be well-known and profitable as a result of she wasn’t that particular, but when I made Halsey, possibly she may very well be. [Changing my name] gave me the chance to create a brand new persona that wasn’t certain by the expectations I had for myself or the constraints that others positioned on me due to my upbringing or my socioeconomic scenario.”

“I’d by no means change my identify,” she mentioned on an episode of the Awards Chatter podcast. “Once I was a toddler and no one else was referred to as Saoirse — for the document, it’s ‘Sir-shuh’ like inertia, though individuals in Eire truly pronounce it ‘Seer-shuh,’ so take your decide — I assumed, ‘Oh, I’d like a traditional identify,’ simply because I used to be a child. However the older I acquired, I made a decision I used to be by no means gonna change something for anybody.”

Throughout a Wired interview, the actor mentioned he modified his identify as a consequence of his connection to his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola. “I modified my identify as a result of I used to be doing a bit film referred to as Quick Instances at Ridgemont Excessive, and I used to be nonetheless Nicolas Coppola. Individuals wouldn’t cease saying issues like, ‘I like the odor of Nicolas within the morning’ due to Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall saying, ‘I like the odor of napalm within the morning.’ And it made it onerous to work. I made a decision I do not want this, so I modified it to Cage.”

After profitable an Oscar for Every part In every single place All at As soon as, he instructed reporters that he began out in Hollywood utilizing his actual identify. “When it acquired actually powerful, my supervisor instructed me that ‘possibly, you already know, it might be simpler when you had been to have an American sounding identify,’ and I used to be so determined for a job that I’d do something,” he recalled. However after utilizing the identify Jonathan and taking an extended break from performing, “The very very first thing that I wished to do was to return to my delivery given identify.”

In 2013, the actor instructed GQ that the music trade tried to field him in as a consequence of his final identify. “‘Your final identify’s Hernandez,'” he recalled individuals telling him. “‘Perhaps it’s best to do that Latin music, this Spanish music. … Enrique’s so scorching proper now.'” He ended up choosing the identify Mars and sidestepped the difficulty. “Mars simply sort of got here [from] joking round as a result of that sounds greater than life. That was it, easy as that,” he instructed Latina Journal.

Throughout an interview with Bustle, she revealed that she’s been pressured to mispronounce her identify. “There are issues that folks instructed me to not do. For instance, I used to be instructed one time that I ought to pronounce my identify extra Americanized. There have been issues that folks instructed me to do this, for a second, I used to be like, ‘I am not snug,’ however I went off what they instructed me. As a result of I used to be simply so determined to make it, I used to be keen to do something. Then at one level, I mentioned no, I do not need to do this… I do not need to pronounce my identify this fashion, as a result of it is pronounced with an accent.”

“My rap identify was simply Aquafina, however then I believe once we had been placing out the video, the man that made the video…he was like, ‘Effectively, we should always change the spelling so you do not get sued,'” she recalled. “So, he spelled it so additional. He spelled it in essentially the most additional means ever. So, I used to be like, ‘I really feel like individuals aren’t going to grasp this,’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, however I really feel like it might be distinctive, so then individuals [will] look it up.’ However then, nobody is aware of spell it. So, you already know, it got here again to chunk me within the ass.”

The actor instructed GQ that he seen different individuals touchdown commercials once they modified their names. “I simply thought it was a slap within the face. As a result of I did take care of racism as a child. So, it felt like altering my identify can be sort of like conforming. I am not likely down for that. I do know that my dad and mom, they crossed the border to supply us an ideal life. And I did not need to flip my again on my dad working two full-time jobs, my mother working two full-time jobs, so me and my brother might go to non-public college.”

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