Insiders have just come forward to reveal the major shift Leonardo DiCaprio plans to do for his career, now that he intends to ‘embrace’ his age.
The insider in question spoke to InTouch when delivering news of this change of pace.
According to their findings, “Leo is finally taking the next generation seriously and making overtures toward working with more stars who are quite a bit younger than him after resisting the idea for years.”
And this ‘breakthrough’ of sorts has come after he and Jennifer Lawrence teamed up for Don’t Look Up! in 2021 as well as his stint with Emma Stone.
But the main thing that is making his shift from always being the bigger star in a movie, to sharing screen time with someone significantly younger has come in One Battle After Another.
Because he’s been having quite a bit of collaboration with Alana Haim “who is also more or less a generation younger than him,” the insider explained.
All in all, “it’s all about respect for Leo, in the sense that he just can’t and has never been able to work opposite actors he doesn’t view as total giants.”
Because of this “for years, that meant turning to that older generation of actors like Robert DeNiro, Russell Crowe and even Brad Pitt as costars, but Leo is finally loosening up and realizing that he is one of those old guys now, and it wouldn’t be productive to keep pairing himself up with all these legends of yesteryear anymore,” the source added.
Ultimately “Leo can still get away with playing somebody in his late thirties or early forties, but he’s also a realist and doesn’t have a Peter Pan syndrome where he’s afraid to get old.”
So “he’s embracing his age and he wants to collaborate with the leading stars who are younger than him — it’s a very smart and evolved strategy!” they added before signing off.
