We’ve been talking about Camila Morrone for almost two years. She began dating Leonardo DiCaprio in early 2018, when she was just 20 years old, although she reportedly knew Leo before that, when she was a teenager. That entire time, she’s been described as Argentinian, and I guess I’ve never heard her speak, so I just assumed that meant she grew up in Argentina. She did not. She grew up in LA, with her Argentinian parents trying to break into the acting world. Her mother, Lucila Sola, dated Al Pacino for a while too. Anyway, Camila has a new movie, Mickey and the Bear. It’s an indie film and maybe it’s getting some awards hype and some comparisons to Winter’s Bone. To promote the film, Camila did an interview with the LA Times, which you can read here. She mostly talks about her life and the movie, but of course she says something about DiCaprio too. Some highlights:
Her actor parents: “I saw them struggle their whole lives to be financially independent actors, and seeing them go through that, I was kind of turned off to it. There was so much angst around acting, and it was such a topic of conversation — never knowing where your next paycheck is going to come from. I thought: ‘I’m going to go to college. I’m going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.’ And of course, I ended up exactly like them.”
‘Mickey’ compared to ‘Winter’s Bone’: “I think people are seeing comparisons between the two films because of the setting and the cold and all that stuff — and I guess the outfits are grungy and similar. I mean, it’s crazy. Jennifer Lawrence is a mastermind. She has no training and she’s just so naturally good. I definitely don’t let any of it go to my head. I think the biggest thing is not believing any of your press.”
She’s bothered by the judgment about her relationship: “There’s so many relationships in Hollywood — and in the history of the world — where people have large age gaps. I just think anyone should be able to date who they want to date.” Still, she said she gets why the public is fascinated by her relationship — “I probably would be curious about it too” — but is hopeful that as her career grows, she won’t always be mentioned alongside her boyfriend. “I think more and more now that people are seeing the film, I’m slowly getting an identity outside of that. Which is frustrating, because I feel like there should always be an identity besides who you’re dating. … I understand the association, but I’m confident that will continue to slip away and be less of a conversation.”
She didn’t want to be typecast as a hot girl: Before she got “Mickey and the Bear,” Morrone hadn’t worked for a year. The parts she was being offered weren’t the ones she wanted to take: the mean girl, the hot cheerleader, the lead’s girlfriend. Usually, those offers came after a casting director had only seen her image online — a girl who’d had “2½ hours of hair and makeup wearing perfectly fitted clothes…I felt so ashamed of my modeling history when I first got into acting, so I tried to hide that part of my life, because I didn’t want to be looked at as too sexy for a role. I’ve heard, ‘Oh, she’s not homey-looking,’ or ‘too voluptuous’ or — I don’t want to say sexy, because then I sound like I think of myself that way — which I don’t — but that’s oftentimes it.”
Honestly, she handled all of those questions with more deftness than I was expecting. She wasn’t bemoaning her hotness and sexiness, she wasn’t really whining about only being known as Leonardo DiCaprio’s hot young girlfriend. At one point, the LAT notes that it bugs Camila that people assume that Leo is helping her get roles (they don’t quote her about it though), to which I say… Leo is probably the one telling his friends to offer her all of those hot-girl roles which she refuses to do. But yeah, I buy that Leo isn’t trying to Svengali her career. He would probably prefer if she didn’t work at all and she was just on call for him 24-7. Ah, The Leonardo DiCaprio Girlfriend Experience. You get name recognition and a terse goodbye on your 25th birthday.
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“is hopeful that as her career grows, she won’t always be mentioned alongside her boyfriend.”
You have about two or three years before he dumps you, so…
Why are everybody so forgiving with Leo? Like…that bugs me a lot! Had it been anyone else there would have been so much more condamnnation about a middleaged man dating a woman more than half his age, that he had known since she was a child (not a teenager).
Everytime this girl talks, I’m reminded why certain kinds of men only date 21 year olds. Nope, not because of how they look: because they are stupid enough to believe shit like “I just think anyone should be able to date who they want to date.”
Girl.. Use your brain.
Actually I was surprised that most of her responses are more intelligent and thoughtful than many actresses in their 20’s and early 30’s who are viewed as favs on here. Some of them can barely put a sentence together but are infantilized as “still learning”.
I find Leo’s behavior of having age deadlines for his girlfriend’s super creepy. That’s on him. I don’t however understand the need to tear down this young lady.
Oh honey.
So…she’s talking to the press about their relationship and her career is starting to take off. With Leo this generally means a break-up is coming right? Maybe it will last for a few months but beyond that…I’m not sure.
You took the words right out of my mouth! Came here to say the exact same thing… as soon as the GF opens here mouth about their relationship is when he cuts the cord…
Time for awards season nomination flirting for Leo. We’re going to have to endure an increase of Camila PR in the next few months. I think Leo’s done participating so he just has her do it on her own without him because he can’t bother to appear interested. He wants nominations though. Not sure if Enty’s word is worth anything, but there was a blind that Leo wants a child and is thinking of getting this dim cupcake to provide him with one. I’m sure her hustling mama would love that.
I liked most of her answers, except the one of her defending their age gap for obvious reasons, but well which girl in her early 20s wouldn’t defend her creepy boyfriend. And I find her a good actress, I really liked her in that Never Going Back movie so I’m excited to watch her on Daisy Jones & The Six.
Also she really looks like Hailey Baldwin, but prettier (not that Hailey is ugly at all though).
This is Kelly Rohrbach 2.0.
If she gets any roles at all after this relationship ends when she nears 25 then I will be shocked.
She really annoys me. I get the feeling that all her answers are fake and that she thinks overly highly of herself.
Agreed. Super vein and annoying. The only reason why people even give her 5 minutes of their time is because of Leo. She has no career without his people trying to make fame happen for her. She blabs more than any of her predecessors. I wonder what possessed Leo, or if it’s just the Al Pacino connection that he likes.
She’s really pretty… that’s about all I’ve got. I’m over trying to figure Leo out. I’m still like 60% sure he’s lifetime partners with Lucas Haas, so all of this is pretty moot.
Meh, she’s an adult. She knows what the deal is.
I didn’t know up from down at 22, lol.
The sand is running through the hourglass on this relationship. Tick tock goes the Leo girlfriend clock.
So well put!
I haven’t seen her in anything yet I don’t think, but I hope she does well and has her own success.
The only thing that bugs here, aside from the age gap nonsense, is that she was in a fortunate enough place to turn down roles she didn’t like. Most working actors don’t have that luxury. I hope she realizes that.
I don’t think she should have to defend dating an older man. She’s young, she doesn’t have the life experience to know better.
If anyone is going to be questioned it should be Leo. Of course his fame and power insulate him from such questioning.
She needs to stop talking about this relationship and focus on her career cause once he moves on to some other young model/actress its over for her and that Insta model look is not going to help her career. Use your brain,girl.
“The Leonardo DiCaprio Girlfriend Experience. You get name recognition and a terse goodbye on your 25th birthday.”
LMAO
The problem is, at 38, men in their 40’s and 50’s expect women like Camila because they see celebrities doing it. It sets a bad precedence and leaves the dating pool for my age group a no man’s land. That is why a lot of people give flack about large age gaps. Men get refined in our culture, women just grow old; that is the viewpoint still.
she looks like a mix of other celebrities…it is driving me crazy because I can’t put my finger on who she resembles.
Now that she’s started talking her days are numbered. She might not make the Replacement Age of 25.
Her mother Lucila is also younger than Leo!
I’ve heard great things about her performance in Mickey. Best of luck to her!
Hmmm…
Look, I love most of Leo’s work. Not a star fan, but a body of work fan.
That said, sheer powers of human observation lead me to believe to believe Leo and Camila aren’t “dating”. They do, however, enjoy cruising the high seas in Leo’s yacht, so there’s that.
Honestly, does anyone give a darn, at this point? No harm done, & everybody wins.
Keep on keeping on, Camila. Get your films, girl.