Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio shared a story of his childhood recently that caught close attention. Apparently, when he began as an actor, an agent wanted his artistic name to be Lenny Williams because “Leonardo DiCaprio” was “too ethnic”: “They will never hire him,” the agent allegedly told DiCaprio … before becoming a family name.
In a conversation about the “New Heights” podcast, the actor said his father ended the nonsense about a change of name. Although, to be fair to the agent, Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez changed his name to Martin Sheen and did it well with that, and George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou. In fact, Benicio del Toro, co -star of DiCaprio, in the next movie “One Battle Afher, said that one of his first agents wanted” Benny del “.
His first days of trying to make it sound like a fable …
Once upon a time, a young inspiring actor with red and thick hair and a smile of expelled teeth decided to move from Cliffeside Park, NJ, to the Land. After fast food days, I expected something authentic. It was then that, while driving on Somstreet Boulevard, he ran into a food truck painted with a neon sign that showed “the mystical taco.”
Intrigued, parked and went to the truck.
“What do you recommend?” He asked the woman taking orders, in an obvious way flirtatious. A little annoying, the woman replies: “That depends on what you want,” in that tone uses a waiter when they flirt for the tips and not the digits.
“I want to do it in the show business,” said the young actor, committed to doing this uncomfortable for both of them.
“No. 5,” said the cashier with a blank face. “It's our most popular dish.”
The menu listed two tacos and a fortune said.
“Do you have something based on plants?”
The ATM nods, turns his head slightly to his right and shouts “No. 5, without guts.”
Technically, that was true, but it still sounded like an insult to him.
It was included with its vegan tacos food there was a teaspoon of street corn and a toy pocket compass. Smiling at the fantasy of everything, the actor opened him and saw that he seemed to have been dazzled by a 3 -year -old boy holding two glue guns. The mirror in the lid seemed to come from Barbie's Dreamhouse. The needle turned wildly as if the Earth's magnetic field was turning out of synchronization with the planet.
Feeling the fear of the actor, the woman assured her that if she looked at him before each audition, the needle would point it out in the right direction.
And so he took his tacos and baratijas and tried to do it in the show business.
When the actor went to his first audition, he opened the compass. The needle stopped turning and pointed to the front. The actor looked up in front of him and noticed that another man had curly brown hair. In panic, he was wrong for the role, the young actor abruptly left the room where the audition was carried out and went to the nearest room to change his hair from red to brown. In his next audition, the actor again opened the compass, and this time he pointed to a man with great muscles and adjusted jeans, so the actor left the audition, joined a gym and was shopping at H&M.
He did this for a week.
Every time the young actor went to an audition, he opened the compass, the needle pointed directly and the actor learned what he needed to change next. But then the weeks became a month and even the young actor had not yet audited much less a role. He changed his name, closed the gap in his smile, got a work of nose and a Brazilian uprising, which made entering the challenging tight jeans, and yet, every time he opened the compass, the needle pointed to someone else who needed to be.
A year later, the actor was heading to another audition when he noticed that the mystical taco food truck parked on the other side of Somstreet Boulevard. He turned a U turned, went out and marched to the front of the line. He fought to get the compass out of his pocket now tight.
“This does not work,” he shouted to the woman who sold No. 5 without guts.
“Of course,” he said defensively.
Then, the actor explained that every time he opened the compass in an audition, he would direct him towards someone else who is supposed to be. The woman let out a sigh of disapproval, the way in which a myxologist responds to an order for Jagerbombs.
“The needle was not pointing to other people,” he said. “He was sighting towards the mirror. That is because the key to doing so in the show business or anywhere else is to be yourself.”
What relief that our two actors in real life had the good sense of continuing to be Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro. Lenny and Benny couldn't look in the mirror.
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