(KTLA) – Leonardo DiCaprio was one of Hollywood’s most famous names for decades – but in another world, we may not have known Leo in the name of Leo.
Before the release of his last movie, Paul Thomas Anderson “one battle after another”, “,” The 50 -year -old an Academy Award winner sat with Travis Kelissy and Jason Kelis in their favor “New Heights” podcast. During the conversation, along with the co -star, Vicenio del Toro, DiCaprio talked about his career and revealed a reason that his first agent initially wanted to change his name.
“I finally got an agent,” DiCaprio remembers. They said, “Your name is very ethnic. “Go,” what do you mean? They go, “No, very ethnic.
DiCaprio said that he replied by saying: “What is it “Liny”? I was 12, 13. ”What is it Lenny Williams?
The actor remembered his agent and team, saying that they briefly made his first name and added a copy of Angent from his German middle name, Wilhelm. The title of DiCaprio comes from the ancestors Salvatore and Rosina DiCaprio, who were Italian.
DiCaprio was not sold, and it was not Baba DiCaprio. The youngest Dikaprio told the Kilus Prades and Del Toro that his father “separated” “Lenne Williams”, saying, “On my body.”
During the same interview, the Oscar -winning Benycio del Toro, Puerto Rico, recalled the agent about his name. Del Toro said: “I was told the same thing.” “You are Benny Dell.”
Star DiCaprio and Del Toro in the movie “Next Anderson”, will be released in theaters this weekend. The film finally brings together DiCaprio and Anderson, who wanted to work together for years. DiCaprio said earlier this year that his greatest professional regret is not to do Anderson’s films, “Boogie Nights”.
The 1997 drama, a drama in the seventies of the twentieth century in the adult cinema industry, was depicted at the same time “Titanic”, which was already signed by Dicaprio. While the movie “Titanic”, which made Dicaprio a family name, he says he hopes that he eventually tried to work.
We will never know what extent might be the profession of Lenne Williams has ended, but it seems that DiCaprio has taken the right choice of name.