Posted 4 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down"Over My Dead Body": Leonardo DiCaprio Revealed The Less "Ethnic" Stage Name An Agent Almost Made Him Go By"They're never going to hire you," an agent told the then-unknown actor of his name that's now incredibly famous.by Carly LedbetterHuffPost WriterFacebookPinterestLink Leonardo DiCaprio would've been an Oscar-winning actor with a totally different name, if one agent had his way. Jamie Mccarthy / Getty Images The Departed actor spoke about the almost-name change on Jason and Travis Kelce's podcast, New Heights. Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images "I finally got an agent. They said, 'Your name is too ethnic,'" DiCaprio said on the episode, released on Wednesday. "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.'" New Heights / Via youtube.com "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 recalled the agent saying. (DiCaprio's full name is Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio.) New Heights / Via youtube.com Luckily, the actor said things never moved forward with "Lenny" as his father saw a headshot with DiCaprio's new name on it and "ripped it up." Samir Hussein / Getty Images "He said, 'Over my dead body,'" DiCaprio recalled. New Heights / Via youtube.com DiCaprio appeared on the podcast alongside his One Battle After Another co-star, Benicio del Toro, who said the same thing happened to him. Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images "I was told the same thing. 'You're Benny Del,'" del Toro said, "Mr. Del." New Heights / Via youtube.com Others in Hollywood have spoken about the pressures from others to change their name, including singer Christina Aguilera. Neil Mockford / Getty Images "I remember when I was first coming up, there was a big debate around me on changing my last name because all the businessmen around me thought it was too long, too complicated, and too ethnic," the singer told Billboard back in 2020. Monica Schipper / Getty Images "'Christina Agee' was an option, but that clearly wasn't going to fly," she replied, as she "was dead set against the idea and I wanted to represent who I really was." Cedric Ribeiro / Getty Images "Being Latina, it is a part of my heritage and who I am," Aguilera added. Donato Sardella / Getty Images Watch the full episode of New Heights below: View this video on YouTube New Heights / Via youtube.com This article originally appeared on HuffPost.