Leonardo DiCaprio a year older. He celebrated his 48th birthday last week. It’s not quite the big 5-0, but it’s undeniably older, and you know what that means: you and I are older too. Sorry! It may seem like yesterday that we could watch this apple-cheeked idol on Growing pains reruns. It can feel like it was a week ago that poor Jack froze on a raft. DiCaprio was just the ethereal Romeo to our Juliet, and now he’s come of age. So it’s hard.
We were always comforted by the fact that he absolutely refused to grow up. Her girlfriends remained the same age (early twenties). He celebrated here, there and everywhere. But perhaps the sun is even setting on his perpetual youthful lifestyle. He just had a birthday party at a mansion in Beverly Hills, per Page Six. If you squint. there is growth, right? A certain maturity, even. His birthday party wasn’t at a club. It wasn’t on a yacht. There would even have been a rule prohibiting telephones. It’s like recreating the idea 90s, when reporters could track you and your Pussy Posse, but couldn’t catch you, but somehow in a more responsible, rules-based way.
The reported guest list, too, betrays a bit of growth. It’s not only Lucas Haas and Tobey Maguire more (although Tobey Maguire was there). It was bradley cooper! james lebron! Kate Hudson, Rami Malek, Ashton Kutcher, Stella Maxwell, Adrien Brody, and Jamie Foxx! It was Mick Jagger! It’s his parents George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirken. DiCaprio casts a wide net into his teenage years. It’s just him and the boys. It’s all Hollywood, basically.
The wide net did not catch Gigi Hadid yet. She wasn’t there, it seems. The actor and model have been seen together in many headlines, but few photos, since DiCaprio’s apparent split with his longtime girlfriend Camila Morrone in August, months after his 25th birthday. And it may also be maturity. He’s allegedly dating a mother of one, who can’t give up her whole life when you want to celebrate 48 years on earth, and that’s great after all. It is growth. And that’s not so terrible, is it? He can look around at the friends he’s amassed, the family still in his life, the Beverly Hills mansion provided, and think, if that’s not nice, I don’t know what is. Or whatever goes through DiCaprio’s mind at 48.