Uzo Aduba once asked her mom if she could change her name to Zoe. 'I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent, she said, 'Why?' I said, 'Nobody can pronounce it.' ...'
podcast, he recalled being told his name was"too ethnic" when he first got to Hollywood. Though he was annoyed about it, he came up with a few different options that his agent didn't approve: Chuck Spadina and Templeton Page-Taylor. They agreed to try out Casey Reeves, but Keanu couldn't do it."Eventually, I went back to my agents, and I was like, 'I can't change my name.'""One of the first plays I ever did, I was playing John Procter.
I decided I don't need this, so I changed it to Cage.""It’s a combination of Luke Cage from Marvel Comics, who was a character I liked — also named Power Man — and John Cage, the avant-garde composer."Everything Everywhere All at Oncereporters that he started out in Hollywood using his real name.
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