Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed he was once told by an agent to change his name to Lenny Williams as his was “too ethnic”.
The Revenant star, now a household name, said he was just 11-years-old when the agent suggested to change the name, reported Femalefirst.
Yeah, when I was 11-year-old, when I first wanted to be an actor professionally. We went to an agent and they wanted to change my name to Lenny Williams. They felt my name was too ethnic and I wouldn’t get as many jobs. So that thwarted me from being an actor for a number of years. I tried again two years later when I was 13 and got an agent to accept me with my name.
Leonardo DiCaprio to Femalefirst
The 41-year-old actor also insisted he never got into acting for fame’s sake and has just wanted to produce good films.
A lot of people may look at what I’ve done career-wise and say that there was a period in which I tried to possibly become a movie star, per se, (and) tried to go for much bigger pictures.
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