Leonardo DiCaprio would’ve been an Oscar-winning actor with a totally different name, if one agent had his way.

The One Battle After Another star spoke about the almost-name change on Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights , earlier this week.

“I finally got an agent. They said, ‘Your name is too ethnic’,” Leo recalled on the episode, which was released on Wednesday. “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’.”.

“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’,” he recalled the agent saying. (The Titanic actor’s full name is Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, fact fans.)

Luckily, the actor said things

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