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Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong> opened up on how his agent once wanted him to change his name in a recent appearance on the New Heights podcast. As his agent believed his name was \u201cethnic,\u201d he suggested performing under a stage name, saying no one would hire him if he went by his original name.<\/p>\n During a conversation with Jason and Travis Kelce on the New Heights<\/a> podcast, DiCaprio, who featured on the podcast with Benicio del Toro, revealed that one of his early agents suggested he perform under a stage name as his original name was \u201ctoo ethnic.\u201d The Titanic star added, \u201cI finally got an agent. They said, \u2018Your name is too ethnic. I go, \u2018What do you mean? It\u2019s Leonardo DiCaprio?\u2019 They go, \u2018No, too ethnic.\u201d He revealed that the agent said that no one in the industry would hire him if he went by the name Leonardo DiCaprio and thus suggested a new name. DiCaprio mentioned that his agent asked him to go by the name Lenny Williams.<\/p>\n DiCaprio further revealed that he questioned his agent about the unique name, saying,\u00a0\u201cI said, \u2018What is Lenny?\u2019 I was 12,13. I said, \u2018What is Lenny Williams?\u2019 \u2018We took your middle name, and we made it \u2014 now you\u2019re Lenny.\u201d He then revealed to his The One Battle After Another co-star, Benicio Del Toro, that his father discovered the name change and instantly refused. His father saw a headshot with the name, Lenny Williams, \u201cripped it up, and he said, \u2018Over my dead body.\u2019\u201d Toro related to DiCaprio\u2019s situation, revealing that even he faced a similar incident when he was asked to rename himself as Benny Del.<\/p>\n Without changing his name, DiCaprio undeniably became one of the biggest movie stars, earning massive fame and success throughout his illustrious career. He is now set to star as \u201cGhetto\u201d Pat Calhoun\/Bob Ferguson in the upcoming movie, One Battle After Another, releasing on September 26, 2025.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Shazmeen Navrange on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Leonardo DiCaprio Reveals He Was Asked to Change His Name For a Reason<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leonardo DiCaprio opened up on how his agent once wanted him to change his name in a recent appearance on the New Heights podcast. As his agent believed his name was \u201cethnic,\u201d he suggested performing under a stage name, saying no one would hire him if he went by his original name. Leonardo DiCaprio says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2048659,"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":[25173],"tags":[357902,379965,23666,190738],"class_list":["post-2048658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-benicio-del-toro","tag-lenny-williams","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-travis-kelce"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Reveals-He-Was-Asked-to-Change-His-Name.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048658","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=2048658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2048659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Leonardo DiCaprio says his agent asked him to change his name<\/h2>\n