I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn’t like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall.
There’s more in this cool Esquire interview with the 5′ 11″ Sigourney Weaver, including:
I was awfully good as the Cheshire Cat in “Alice in Wonderland”. I think that was in third grade. I realize now that I played it as a screaming homosexual, but I certainly didn’t know it at the time.
(Fedora-tip: Dan Slevin.)
