A 2005 interview emerges amid rumors of the actor's romance with a young woman of the same age
An old interview with Mischa Barton has become topical again amid new information regarding Leonardo DiCaprio's romantic preferences. The 48-year-old actor's tendency to hook up with younger women has led him to grab headlines in recent days after being spotted with 19-year-old model Eden Polani.
The Titanic star has come under fire for dating women significantly younger than him while highlighting the alleged fact that he wouldn't hook up with anyone over the age of 25. Amid the controversy, an interview that the star of The OC gave in 2005 to the British outlet Harper's Bazaar (at that time Harpers & Queens) has resurfaced, in which she made certain revelations regarding having been incited to maintain situations with the famous actor when she was 19 years old.
The actress said that her representative, Craig Schneider, recommended that she agree to "sleep with him" to prosper in the professional field and that she use this action to improve her career.
DiCaprio was then around 30 years old and the actress said that she and her manager met the actor when the interpreter was doing a photo shoot in Malibu, California.
According to the actress, Schneider recommended: "For the good of your career, go and sleep with that man." However, Barton would have ruled out this possibility by refusing to be with a man of such age.
The decades-old interview went viral again this week after DiCaprio came under fire after being seen with Eden Polani at a Grammy Awards event. Faced with the rumors that link him to the young 19-year-old French-Israeli model, sources close to the actor have come out to deny the existence of a courtship.
Representatives of the interpreter categorically denied that he was "dating" the model who is almost 30 years his junior, after the actor faced a series of negative comments, after being photographed with the young woman at a party held for the presentation of the new EP by singer Ebony Riley.
After the publication of the photos, rumors abounded that the Oscar winner was in a relationship with the young woman who was on the cover of Glamor magazine, although this was denied by his relatives in dialogue with the DailyMail.com portal. Regarding the images, the source remarked: “They were sitting next to each other at a party to listen to music. There were more people at that meeting.” Although they did not clarify if there is indeed any link between DiCaprio and the model.
It should be remembered that the actor never got married, although he has had several high-profile romances. As he approaches half a century of his life, his choice to date women within a seemingly never-changing age range comes under fire.
In addition, faith after his separation from Camila Morrone that the actor was singled out for displaying such a particular pattern of behavior, which occurred throughout his life. In his different relationships, the actor never dated a woman who was over 25 years old.
In the middle of last year, it was when the actor from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the daughter of Argentina Lucila Polak cut off their relationship of more than four years, a link that would have begun in early 2018 and that became official in 2020 when both of them They were shown sitting in the front row of the Oscars together.
Recently, the actor was also romantically linked to Victoria Lamas, 23, daughter of actor Lorenzo Lamas and who at her age is 25 years younger than him. Although it is not known if the relationship continues or not, both were photographed together on several occasions, including a vacation in Saint Barth. About the supposed link, Lorenzo Lamas himself spoke. "I know you like it a lot," said the actor, referring to his daughter's feelings for her colleague.
"She is very delighted," he said, adding that the term "enchanted" was born during a telephone conversation he had with his daughter on Christmas Eve. “I told him to take the relationship as a vacation, to enjoy it as much as he could while it lasted. And if it lasts longer than a normal vacation, great. But if not, let her heart take care of her because she is very young, ”he added.
