Leonardo Dicaprio Revealed His Father's Reaction when He Informed Him that His Manager Wanted to Change His Name.

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During a recent interview, actor Leonardo DiCaprio revived an episode of his adolescence that could have changed the course of his career in Hollywood. When he was between 12 and 13 years old, his representative suggested him to change his artistic name, as he felt it sounded “too ethnic.” The proposal was to call him Lenny Williams. The young actor did not understand the change or the sense of that decision. He said he wondered: “What is Lenny …