Jeff Goldblum was advised to change his surname when he first started out.
The American actor has had a varied career over the years, starring in classic movies such as The Fly and Jurassic Park.
While he's been a regular fixture in Hollywood since the '70s, Jeff was encouraged to change his last name when he was first breaking into showbiz.
"Never pressure, but there was an agent early on, as per our subject I think, who said, 'Mmm, you haven't done anything. You could get that part in Death Wish; you'd play the bad guy. You look kind of... if you changed it to, like, Gonzalez or Hernandez, I'll bet you could have a lot of playing skeevy kind of Hispanic characters. How's that'
"Nothing yet had happened much, but I was like, 'I don't think that's my path. I don't think I want to carve out that path,'" Jeff recalled to American GQ.
His famous surname has landed him cameo roles in some of TV's biggest shows including Friends and Glee.
The 61-year-old still enjoys a busy film career too, and has just finished filming new flick Mortdecai with Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor.
Another A-list ensemble he's also recently starred in is The Grand Budapest Hotel. Working on the Wes Anderson movie was a joy for Jeff.
"People would come and go, you know, and of course Bill Murray came and went. And he's a barrel of, obviously, laughs, all the time. There were a lot of funny people, you know... Ralph Fiennes is a lovely guy, deeply, humanly funny and very focused, very serious, but very funny," he smiled.
"Edward Norton would tell hilarious - he's a raconteur of great ability and retainment.
"And Wes Anderson himself is funny in a very particular way, and the stories he's interested in talking about - what he's interested in talking about and what he says is very funny in a very particular, sophisticated, as you can imagine, and delightful, delicious way."
