Leonardo DiCaprio confesses that he is emotionally 32 years old.
The actor lets director Paul Thomas Anderson interview him and solves the mystery of his partners' ages.
Barcelona–I'm going to ask you a question and you must answer me as quickly as possible. If you didn't know how old you are, how old would you be now?
–Thirty-two.
This could be a banal and spontaneous conversation between friends if it weren't for the fact that these two friends are Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor and director open up in a conversation for the magazine Esquirefollowing the release of the film One battle after another (which will hit theaters on September 26). And DiCaprio's answer is the one that has gone around the world because it seems to answer the question that so many people have been asking for years: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio always date women under 25? Now that the actor is 50, his current partner, model Vittoria Ceretti, is 27.
–Now what you have to do is investigate what happened when you were 32, and you'll find out why the answer is the way you were, –continues Paul Thomas Anderson–. By the way, my answer is 27.
At 27, Anderson, who is 55, released his first major film, Boogie nights, while at 32 DiCaprio premiered the thriller Body of Lies by Ridley Scott and Revolutionary Road, by Sam Mendes, the story of a couple drowned by the conventional life of the suburbs. At the suggestion ofEsquireAnderson asks another question about age, about whether 50 is a good time for reflection.
– You're 50, but your emotional maturity is 32. How does that go?
– Well, you get the sense that you want to be more honest and not waste time. I can only imagine how the next few decades will go. I look at my mother, for example, and she says exactly what she thinks and doesn't waste time. She doesn't waste time trying to pretend—and then moves on. To be more truthful and risk things falling apart, or risk disagreeing, or risk going your own way in any kind of relationship in life, personal, professional, is that you don't want to waste any more time. You have to be much more truthful. It's almost a responsibility because you have more of your life behind you than in front of you.