Agent said my name was too ethnic: Leonardo DiCaprio

Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio says his agent thought the actor's name was "too ethnic" and advised him to change it to Lenny Williams instead.

DiCaprio, whose credits include notable roles in projects such as the classic "Titanic", sci-fi "Inception" and recent "Killers of the Flower Moon", recalled the incident and said it was his father, George DiCaprio, who was completely opposed to the name change.

"I finally got an agent. They said, ‘Your name is too ethnic," DiCaprio said on the New Heights podcast.

"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," he a