Leonardo DiCaprio, widely recognized for his acting ability, which allows him to portray a wide range of characters convincingly, has remembered an intriguing encounter, making the star Lenny Williams to the public.
The Titanic star has claimed that his ex-agent made questioning remarks regarding his name, suggesting he change his identity.
Recently, on the New Heights podcast hosted by Jason and the Academy Award-winning Travis Kelce, he revealed, “I finally got an agent. They said, ‘Your name is too ethnic.’”
“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.’ ‘ 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,’” the star Leonardo remembered.
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Moreover, the Shutter Island actor subsequently added that he showed his headshot pictures to his father with the stage name, to which the actor reacted furiously, saying, “Over deceased body.”
Meanwhile, Benicio Del Toro, Leonardo’s co-star, who was also present for the episode, claimed that he went through the same experience and was asked to ‘Benny Del’ his new identification.
However, it should be noted that both stars appeared together for Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming film, One Battle After Another, which will adorn theaters on September 26.
Earlier this month, Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio is returning to the screens with Paul Thomas Anderson action thriller ‘One Battle After Another’, and he thinks it is a ‘great film’ for ‘today’s world’.
In a recent promotional outing for his forthcoming release ‘One Battle After Another’, about a strained couple and a group of ex-revolutionaries, ‘who reunite against an enemy after 16 years, to save the daughter of one of their own’, Leonardo DiCaprio described the black-comedy epic as a ‘timely satire’, perfect to come out today’s day and age.