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Topics: Celebrity, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sex and Relationships, Film and TV
Jess Hardiman
Topics: Celebrity, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sex and Relationships, Film and TV
Leonardo DiCaprio’s ex-girlfriend Camila Morrone has said she’s ‘starting to feel like a woman’ after turning 25 – an age that has seen her move forward with her acting career while also navigating a huge breakup.
The model-turned-actor marked her 25th birthday last June, and says she has never learned so much as she has in the period since.
Of course, during that time, Morrone has not only landed a major role in Amazon Prime’s forthcoming mini-series Daisy Jones and the Six, she’s also had a highly-publicised break-up with A-lister DiCaprio, 48.
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The pair started dating when she was 20 and he was 43, and while their vast age gap prompted a lot of debate online, they remained together for a respectable five years.
However, just one month after Morrone turned 25, things ended.
Speaking to The Cut in a new interview, she revealed that this year has taught her some important lessons.
While she did not mention the breakup with DiCaprio, she said: “I've never learned so much as being 25 years old.
“I am just starting to feel like a woman. But I also feel little in a lot of senses.”
In the new Amazon Prime series, which is based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s popular book of the same name, Morrone plays a character called Camila Dunne, who is the partner of the titular band’s lead singer Billy.
Morrone continued: “With any character that I play, I try to bring what I know from my real life. That's the main thing that I learned in acting class, how to tap into moments in your life that were impactful.”
She added: “So I don't think it's any different for Camilla, I just tapped into what I knew. I do see her as incredibly independent, despite Billy being a rock star.”
The show charts the rise and fall of a fictional rock band in the 1970s, fronted by the charismatic Daisy Jones (Riley Keough).
The rights to the book were snapped up by Reese Witherspoon and her production company Hello Sunshine, with the collaboration announced by Amazon Prime before the novel had even hit shelves.
Witherspoon said in a statement at the time: “As soon as I started reading Daisy Jones & The Six, I immediately fell head over heels in love with it, and I'm thrilled to be bringing it to the screen with Amazon and Jen Salke, whose passionate pursuit of the material spoke volumes.”
Daisy Jones and the Six is out on Amazon Prime today (Friday 3 March).