Leonardo DiCaprio Reveals The New Name An Agent Almost Gave Him

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68d6b9311800008e5c5d0548.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Leonardo DiCaprio" data-caption="Leonardo DiCaprio" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />Leonardo DiCaprio</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="../../../../news/leonardo-dicaprio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> would’ve been an Oscar-winning actor with a totally different name, if one agent had his way. </p><p>The One Battle After Another star spoke about the almost-name change on Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOHXxaah38o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New Heights</a>, earlier this week.</p><p>“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’.”.</p><p>“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.)</p><p>Luckily, the actor said things never moved forward with “Lenny” as his father saw a headshot with Leo’s new name on it and “ripped it up”.</p><p>“He said, ‘Over my dead body,’” he recalled. </p></div><div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AOHXxaah38o?rel=0" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfu