Leonardo DiCaprio almost called himself … Lenny Williams

At the start of his career, his agent found his name “too ethnic”.

And if the young actor against Kate Winslet in Titanic called himself … Lenny Williams?

Everything might not have happened in the same way for Leonardo DiCaprio, if he had changed his name, as his former agent had advised him.

Guest of the “New Heights” podcast, Leo said:

“I finally had just won an agent. And when I sign, this guy said to me: ‘DiCaprio, your name is too ethnic.’ I replied, ‘What do you mean? And them: ‘No, too ethnic.

At the time, the actor was only 12 or 13 years old. He has not yet filmed in The Critrers 3 (1991), its first role.

“I asked them, ‘What is Lenny? What is Lenny Williams?’ They replied: ‘We took your second first name, and that’s it now, you are Lenny.’ “

Fortunately, his father did not let pass. When the young Leo shows him his first actor portrait with this new name, he immediately torn the sheet by declaring: “Rather die than seeing you call you like that!”

In the same time Podcast, Benicio Del Toro, who is currently sharing the poster with Dicaprio in the action comedy of Paul Thomas Anderson, One battle after anothersaid that he had experienced the same mishap. His agent offered to rename himself … “Benny Del”.

And so, in another world, Lenny Williams and Benny Del share the poster of the new PTA …