Michael Keaton wants to be called by his real name: “Michael Douglas”

Michael Keaton He has revealed that he would like people to call him by his real name; however, this presents a problem as his real name is shared by another Hollywood star.

The actor, whose new film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hits theaters today, he told People that he would like to be known professionally by his real name, which is Michael Douglasthe same as the star of Fatal Attraction and Wall Street.

Despite the confusion that sharing a name with another star might cause, he said there is one solution he thinks could work: being known as Michael Keaton Douglas.

“I said, ‘Hey, just as a warning, my credit will go to Michael Keaton Douglas.’”she told People about her work on the film Knox Goes Away, which she recently directed. She added: “It completely slipped my mind. And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create it. But that will happen,” she added, saying that in the future she would like to use her real name more.

He went on to cite Screen Actors Guild rules, which prohibit an actor from signing a contract if his or her name is that of another registered member, and how this led him to think of the name ‘Keaton.’ “I was looking through… I don’t remember if it was a phone book,” he said, “I must have thought, ‘I don’t know, let me think of something here. ‘ And I said, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable. ‘”

Emma Stone also wants to be called by her real name

Recently, Emma Stone She was another Hollywood actress who expressed her desire to be known by her real name rather than her stage name.

The actress of Poor Things whose real name is Emily Jean Stonerecently explained that despite having taken the name “Emma” when she first joined the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), she would like to go back to being called Emily.

“That would be great,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in a new interview. “I would like to be Emily.”

Stone explained that she had to take the name “Emma Stone” when joining SAG because there was already another actress named “Emily Stone” registered with the union.

However, she went on to say that some people in Hollywood have started using her real name. “When I meet them, the people I work with do it,” she explained. “I freaked out a couple of years ago. For some reason, I was like, ‘I can’t do it anymore. Call me Emily. ’”

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Emma Stone also asked to be called by her real name.

In 2018, Stone revealed that she chose the stage name “Emma” because of her obsession with Emma Bunton (also known as Baby Spice) from the Spice Girls.

“When I was a kid I was super blonde,” she explained on an episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, “and my real name is Emily, but I wanted to be called Emma after Baby Spice and guess what! Now I am. So that’s pretty complicated.”

She continued: “It wasn’t necessarily because of her, but yeah, in second grade I went up to the teacher on the first day and asked her to call me Emma? Yeah, I did. Was it because of Emma Lee Bunton from the Spice Girls? Yeah, it was.”