Rob McElhenney has addressed the blowback to legally altering his identify to Rob Mac after he was criticized for slowly morphing into fellow Wrexham A.F.C. co-owner Ryan Reynolds in essentially the most Ryan Reynolds means potential.
“Sure, I’m shortening my identify to Rob Mac. Largely a stage identify, however I digress,” the It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia creator and actor acknowledged in a one-minute video posted to social media. “Is it kinda douchey? Positive. However the period of time that I’ve wasted attempting to get individuals to both spell or say my identify accurately is actually days of my life. Belief me, I added it up.”
McElhenney additionally clarified that whereas he loves his household and the shared heritage of his earlier identify, the thought of it being deeply ingrained is just not true: “Not solely have many generations modified its spelling, the present one was simply given to my ancestor by a authorities official who determined that this was now the spelling.”
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“Occasions have modified and most of the people already name me Rob Mac anyway,” he concluded. “My household is aware of me and loves me no matter what number of syllables I’ve, and that’s the one factor that I actually care about. There are such a lot of issues occurring on the earth, and this can be a foolish one to proceed to waste your time with.”
Information of McElhenney formally submitting for the identify change broke final Thursday following a Might interview with Selection, the place he initially defined the choice was primarily to facilitate the enlargement of his soccer investments into South America.
“As our enterprise and our storytelling is increasing into different areas of the world and different languages through which my identify is even tougher to pronounce, I’m simply going by Rob Mac,” he acknowledged.
In fact, the brand new identify additionally has a connection to McElhenney’s At all times Sunny character, Ronald “Mac” McDonald, whom he has performed since 2005. Season 17 of the present premieres on July ninth at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on FX and will likely be accessible to stream the following day on Hulu.
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— Rob McElhenney (@RMcElhenney) July 1, 2025