Zoe Saldana Says She Was Encouraged To Change Her Name in Her Early Career
justjared.comZoe Saldana is opening up about the time when a former manager encouraged her to change her name. The 43-year-old The Adam Project star spoke to Entertainment Weekly about it, as that had been a practice for professional actors in the past. Click inside to read more… While chatting with the magazine about the new Netflix movie, Zoe remembered being told that changing her name could benefit her.
However, she didn’t want to. “When I did Center Stage, I remember being discouraged by my management at that time to use my name,” she shared. “But their intention was never for me to stop being who I am.
They celebrated who I was.” Zoe added that her “manager at the time was a former singer and a ballroom performer, and she did change her name as well when she was a teenager back in the ’60s, I believe.
And she said it’s what everybody does.” “That today is advice we consider poor, but that was her doing the best that she wanted for me.
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