At half a century, Leonardo DiCaprio says the number still feels surreal. Sitting with Paul Thomas Anderson for Esquire, the Oscar winner laughed, “I still think I’m thirty-two,” then grew serious: “You hit a point where wasting minutes feels criminal.” He credits his blunt honesty to his mother, a woman “who never fakes anything.” Now, whether the stakes are a film set or a friendship, Leo chooses raw truth over polite silence.
That philosophy also colors his love life—always headline fodder. Currently, he’s with 27-year-old Italian model Vittoria Ceretti, who met him in Milan and keeps their romance off the record. She shrugs at the “girlfriend-of” label: “The second you date someone bigger on Instagram, you become an accessory, not a person.”
Observers still note the familiar timeline: Gisele at 20, Bar at 20, Toni at 21, Camila at 20—each relationship ending around age 25. With Vittoria past that mark, speculation simmers, but DiCaprio seems less interested in patterns than in presence. “I’ve lost patience for anything that isn’t real,” he says. For the man once defined by cinematic grand gestures, turning fifty is less about yachts and premieres and more about refusing to act off-screen.