Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else.
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.
I like to refer to myself as 'The George Clooney of the Lane Bryant set.'
I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
I'm a junior, so my dad's name is Thomas Rhett Akins as well. So literally, from the day I was born, it was Thomas Rhett. It wasn't Thomas or Rhett, it was Thomas Rhett.
Thomas Rhett Akins doesn't sound like a rock star name. I didn't leave Akins out to convince people my dad wasn't my dad. I've always been called Thomas Rhett.