Leonardo DiCaprio is arguably best known for three main things: first, his glittering movie career, with the star objectively one of the biggest names in Hollywood — and he has been for decades.
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Next, it’s the fact that he’s incredibly, incredibly private, and always has been. Despite being in the biz for almost 40 years, he rarely shares any insight into his personal life, and is known for being shy and reserved in interviews.
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And finally, 51-year-old Leo is pretty well renowned for exclusively dating women in their 20s.
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In fact, for a long time, it was a running joke that Leo never dated women over the age of 25 after people noticed his pattern of ending relationships just after his partner’s 25th birthday — even when they had been together for several years prior.
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However, his current girlfriend, Italian model Vittoria Ceretti, has broken that pattern, and they actually started dating when she was 25 years old back in 2023, and they are still together now — with Vittoria currently the ripe old age of… 27.
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And people think that Jennifer Lawrence playfully alluded to Leo’s eyebrow-raising dating history during their recent Actors on Actors episode for Variety, with a snippet of J-Law teasing Leo about being a dad going viral on social media.
For reference, the two stars got together to discuss their most recent work, with Leo’s being One Battle After Another. In the movie, Leo plays a dad to a teenage daughter, played by Chase Infiniti, who is actually 25 in real life.
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Over the years, Leo, who is child-free, has played a handful of characters who have young children — The Wolf of Wall Street and Revolutionary Road, for example — but being a father has never been a core part of the star’s past movie roles, and he has never before played a dad to an older child.
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And Jennifer reflected on this in their conversation, telling Leo: “I really loved seeing you be a dad… Like, I’m so sad that you don’t have a teenage daughter.” As Leo awkwardly chuckled in response, Jen then quipped: “You’d look great with one!”
You can watch the exchange below:
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Needless to say, it didn’t take long for people to speculate that Jen was poking fun at Leo’s history of dating women who are young enough to be his daughter, while also reminding him of his own age — and the whole thing quickly went viral.
A hugely popular comment under the video on a Reddit forum simply reads: “She knew what she was doing,” to which somebody else replied: “And I definitely think he knew what she was doing too–he looks uncomfortable AF.”
“Leo clearly doesn’t seem to like that idea! 😂😂” another user observed, while one more joked: “that is the textbook definition of a nervous chuckle.”
Meanwhile, somebody else wrote on another Reddit forum: “there’s no way she didn’t know what she was doing here💀,” and another added: “this was epic trolling. Kudos to her!”
Leo and Jen previously worked together on the 2021 movie Don’t Look Up, and she was no doubt just toying with her former co-star. But even if she wasn’t, Leo has previously brushed off the scrutiny that comes with being in the public eye, telling the Observer last year that he is too grateful for his career to be bothered by the criticism. It’s also worth noting that he never comments on speculation or specific media reports about himself.
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“As far as my personal life is concerned, my answer is pretty simple,” Leo said at the time. “I got into this industry at a very young age. I felt incredibly compelled to do this. And the irony is that I was born and raised in Hollywood. People think: ‘Oh, OK, just add water’, right? But I tried to become an actor multiple times, and I got rejected.”
“And at 12 or 13 years old, one of those agents said: ‘OK, we’ll give you a shot.’ Since then, it’s felt like winning the lottery. And to be honest, I would have been happy doing any sort of acting jobs – commercials, television,” he went on. “I got the one opportunity doing This Boy’s Life with Robert De Niro. I watched his work, realized the caliber of actor that he was, and said to myself: ‘I will never squander this opportunity.’”
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“So since then, a lot of other stuff comes hand in hand with that,” Leo added. “The complete loss of your private life. And you know what, a lot of people have to deal with a lot harsher things than having their private life be public knowledge. That’s just one of the byproducts.”
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He then concluded: “I feel too lucky to do what I do to sit here and complain about it. It’s just one of the things you have to accept and you adapt.”
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