Questioned by director Paul Thomas Anderson, during a joint interview published on August 13 in the magazine Esquirethe Oscar -winning actor has gone to a few confidences about his relationship to age, and admits having “the emotional maturity of a 35 -year -old man”.
Does Leonardo DiCaprio refuse to age? Or does he simply try to justify his romantic relationships with women who have never been over 27 years old, the age of his current partner, the Italian model Vittoria Ceretti? The actor confided as rarely during a conversation with his friend, the director Paul Thomas Anderson, with whom he shot the film One battle after another, In French rooms on September 25.
This interview is transcribed exclusively, this Tuesday, August 13, in the columns of the American magazine Esquire. “You got 50 years last year. Is it a moment that pushes to reflect? ”Asked Paul Thomas Anderson to Leonardo DiCaprio. “Emotionally,” you had 35 years last year “”, immediately rectifies him the actor, visibly in denial, unable to perceive himself as the fifties that he nevertheless became, on November 11, 2024.
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“Do not waste time”
In the tone of humor, the director then reformulates his question … by removing three additional years in DiCaprio: “You are 50 years old, but emotionally, you have 32. What is it?”. Response from the actor, eternal Hollywood teenager whose angel’s face immortalized in Titanicin 1997, today naturally carries the traces of the past years: “Well, it gives the impression that we want to be more honest and no longer waste your time. I do not even imagine how the next decades will take place. I look at my mother, for example: she says exactly what she thinks and does not waste time. She makes no effort to pretend ”.
At 50, Leonardo DiCaprio is nevertheless aware that a part of his life is behind him, “much more than before”. It is for this reason that he wishes “to be more frank and to take the risk that things break, risk disagreements, risk separating from any type of relationship in life, whether personal or professional, he told Paul Thomas Anderson. You just have to be much more direct, and it’s almost a responsibility. ”
Emotional maturity
The actor’s declarations on the time passing and his relationship with age quickly toured the canvas … and caused a wave of mockery. Comments under several articles from other American media, in particular Entertainment Tonight et Page Six Having resumed his words about his emotional maturity, speak for themselves: “Leo is just trying to justify the fact that he goes out with women in their twenties. He feels like a 32 -year -old man, but he really seems to have 50, ”says an internet user. “Oh, that’s why he goes out with women of 25 years old!” Quips another. Some Internet users prefer to laugh: “He means that he is now finally ready to go out with women over 30!”.
Another passage from the interview that made the teeth cringe: the one where Leonardo DiCaprio, a fervent defender of the environmental cause, loose, as if nothing had happened, that he is currently relaxing on a yacht in Croatia. The star is regularly taxed by hypocrisy due to the dissonance between his speeches, often deemed moralizing, alerting to the gravity of global warming, and his luxurious lifestyle.
At the beginning of August, he was photographed aboard the superyacht of his friend Jeff Bezos, the BarkMonster of the seas whose carbon footprint is estimated at 7.154 tonnes of CO2 per year, can be read in the New York Post. He had already been vilified at the end of June, after arriving in Venice aboard a private jet to attend the sumptuous marriage of the founder of Amazon with American presenter Lauren Sánchez. Critics to which he never responded publicly.