{"id":2047388,"date":"2025-09-24T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2047388"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:21:23","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-was-told-his-name-was-too-ethnic-to-be-a-movie-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/leonardo-dicaprio-was-told-his-name-was-too-ethnic-to-be-a-movie-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio Was Told His Name Was \u201cToo Ethnic\u201d to Be a Movie Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> opened up about some terrible advice he once received from a talent agent.<\/p>\n

The actor appeared on the New Heights podcast along with his One Battle After Another<\/a> co-star Benicio del Toro<\/a> and discussed the new film and their experiences working with iconic directors.<\/p>\n

When asked about shocking moments in their career, DiCaprio said he had a \u201cfun one\u201d from when he was a very young actor. DiCaprio\u2019s first agent secured him a headshot photo and then gave him a surprising piece of news.<\/p>\n

\u201cI finally got an agent and they said: \u2018Your name is too ethnic,\u201d I go, What do you mean?\u2019 They go, \u2018No, too ethnic. They\u2019re never going to hire you. Your new name is Lenny Williams<\/a>. \u2018What\u2019s Lenny Williams?\u2019 \u2018We took your middle name and made it your last name and now [your first] name is Lenny.\u2019 And my dad saw [the headshot photo the agent took], he ripped it up,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leonardo DiCaprio opened up about some terrible advice he once received from a talent agent. The actor appeared on the New Heights podcast along with his One Battle After Another co-star Benicio del Toro and discussed the new film and their experiences working with iconic directors. When asked about shocking moments in their career, DiCaprio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2047389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2047388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Was-Told-His-Name-Was-Too-Ethnic-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}