Zoe Saldana reveals she was advised to adopt a stage name: ‘I still knew that I liked my name’

Zoe Saldana revealed she was advised by her managing team that she should change her name very early in her career in a recent interview.

In conversation with Entertainment Weekly, The Adam Project actor said that she got the advice, because adopting stage name was a trend back then.

"When I did Center Stage, I remember being discouraged by my management at that time to use my name," the 43-year-old stated.

She went on saying, "But their intention was never for me to stop being who I am. They celebrated who I was.”

“But my 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.” Zoe continued. “And she said it's what everybody does."

However, the actor mentioned that she liked her name back then and did not want to change it.

“That, today, is advice that we consider poor but that was her doing the best that she wanted for me.” She concluded. “But I still knew that I liked my name."