Comment on In Hollywood why do all actors and such have fake names besides their own? How do they come up with them? If I went to hollywood could i make up something like Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler?

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  1. To use Anglo-friendly name - eg “Estévez” markets worse than “Sheen”.
  2. To separate themselves from others with similar names. Nicolas Coppola, for example, wanted to distance himself from his uncle Francis.
  3. To make a memorable name - linked to 1. Thomas Mapother doesn’t stick in the brain as well.

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