The actor has cited global confusion over the pronunciation of his last name as his reason for the change.<\/p>\n
“As our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I’m just going by Rob Mac,” he said in an interview with Variety<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n FX. <\/p>\n Rob Mac (a.k.a. Rob McElhenney) and Ryan Reynolds on ‘Welcome to Wrexham’<\/p>\n The actor and producer’s docuseries Welcome to Wrexham follows the ups and downs of the Wrexham AFC footie club \u2014 that’s soccer, if you’re from the U.S. \u2014 that Mac and actor Ryan Reynolds<\/a> purchased in November 2020.<\/p>\n His involvement with the team led his company, More Better Productions, to invest in South American soccer clubs, where his surname, McElhenney, proved to be a conversational challenge.<\/p>\n The struggle was so real that Reynolds unveiled a special musical production<\/a> for McElhenney’s birthday devoted to teaching fans the pronunciation of his costar’s last name, enlisting the help of some of his famous friends as well as members of the club’s hometown.<\/p>\n “Pronouncing all those Ns and Es and Hs can perplex ’em,” Reynolds sang in the 2023 video. “So here’s a little birthday gift from all your mates in Wrexham.”<\/p>\n Kaitlin Olson<\/a>, McElhenney’s wife and his Sunny costar, told Variety that her husband\u2019s new moniker will require some adjustments. “The kids are really not happy about it, because they have that last name,” she said. “And so do I, legally!”<\/p>\n Patrick McElhenney \/ FX \/Courtesy: Everett Collection<\/p>\n Kaitlin Olson, Rob McElhenney, and Glenn Howerton in season 6 of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’<\/p>\n![\"FX.\u00a0](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08ba5f4ea15031921e331ba3671f08f3.jpeg\"\/)
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