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Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio shared a story from his childhood recently that caught a lot of attention. Apparently, when he was starting out as a child actor, an agent wanted his stage name to be Lenny Williams because “Leonardo DiCaprio” was “too ethnic”: “They’re never gonna hire you,” the agent allegedly told DiCaprio … before he became a household name.

In a conversation on the podcast “New Heights,” the actor said his father put an end to the nonsense about a name change. Though in fairness to the agent, Ramon Antonio Gerardo Estevez changed his name to Martin Sheen and did OK with that, and George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou. In fact, Benicio del Toro, DiCa

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