Emilio Estevez’s father Martin Sheen warned actor not to make the one 'mistake' he did
foxnews.comEmilio Estevez said his father Martin Sheen once advised him not to make the same "mistake" he did, urging him to use his birth name for auditions. "I thought using the name Sheen would help [with auditions]," Estevez told Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb on the "Today" show Tuesday. "At the time, my dad said, ‘Don’t make the mistake that I did.
Don’t change your name' because back in the day – 1958 — he changed his name from Ramón Estévez to Martin Sheen because, at the time, there was a lot of prejudice against people with the Hispanic name." He said, in 1967, Sheen’s father, Estevez’s grandfather Francisco Estévez, went to see Sheen on Broadway in "The Subject Was Roses." "He stood outside of the theater and looked up at the marquee, and my dad saw him shake his head in disappointment, and so he never got over that," the Breakfast Club" actor said. "And, so, I think when it was time for me to sort of start making those moves and start getting out and doing auditions, he said, 'Man, if I had one thing to do over, it was that I never would have changed my name.'" Sheen, who only adopted a stage name and never changed his legally, spoke about his "regret" last year.
Sheen's son Charlie Sheen also followed in his father's footsteps by adopting the name. "The only influence I had on Emilio was to keep his name," he told Closer Weekly. "When he started out, his agent was advising him to change his name to Sheen, and he wouldn’t do it.
And I thank God he didn’t. "That’s one of my regrets," he added of going by Martin Sheen. "I never changed my name officially.
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