Leonardo DiCaprio's Ex-Agent Said His Name Was 'Too Ethnic'

If history had gone differently, “Titanic” would’ve starred Lenny Williams.

In a recent appearance on the “ New Heights ” podcast, Leonardo DiCaprio said an agent told him in his early teens that his name was “too ethnic,” and suggested he go by the stage name Lenny Williams instead.

“I finally got an agent. They said, ‘Your name is too ethnic,’” DiCaprio recalled. “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 continued, “I said, ‘What is Lenny?’ I was 12,13. I said, ‘What is Lenny Williams?’ ‘We took your middle name and we made it. Now you’re Lenny.’”

The “Wolf of Wall Street” star added that when he showed his father his headshot printed with the new name, he “ripped it up, and