Leonardo DiCaprio has stayed loyal to Leonardo DiCaprio.
While appearing on the Sept. 24 “New Heights” podcast with Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce, the Oscar winner revealed that, early in his career, an agent suggested he go by a different name
“I finally got an agent. They said, ‘Your name is too ethnic.’ I go, ‘What do you mean? It’s Leonardo DiCaprio?’ They go, ‘No, too ethnic. They’re never going to hire you. Your new name is Lenny Williams,’” he recalled alongside his “One Battle After Another” co-star Benicio del Toro.
The Kelce brothers burst out laughing when the “Wolf of Wall Street” star revealed the recommended name, while he continued to explain how the agent came up with it.
“I said, ‘What is Lenny?’” DiCaprio said. “I was 12,13. I said, ‘What is Lenny Williams?’ ‘We to