“I said, 'Hey, just a heads up, my name is Michael Keaton Douglas.' And it completely slipped my mind,” he said. “And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create it. But that's what will happen.”
Keaton is not the first Hollywood star to decide to return to his birth name in a professional setting. Emma Stonewho coincidentally starred alongside Keaton in “Birdman” in 2014, had previously announced that she wanted to return to her first name Emily.
“That would be so nice,” she told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on April 24. “I would love to be Emily.”
In fact, Stone says, several of her colleagues are already doing so.
“When I get to know them, so do the people I work with,” she explained. “I freaked out a few years ago. For some reason I thought, 'I can't do this anymore. Just call me Emily.'”
Read on to learn more about celebrities who have changed their real names.
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