Suzanne Harrington: The issue with Leonardo DiCaprio dating younger people has nothing to do with age

What if Leo DiCaprio were Lia DiCaprio, and the youth involved a string of young men?

'Leonardo DiCaprio, born in 1974, gets older every year, but his girlfriends do not'

By the end of the three-hour long Once Upon A Time In America film premiere, joked Ricky Gervais at the 2020 Golden Globes, Leonardo Dicaprio’s date would have already been too old for him: “Even Prince Andrew’s like, come on mate, you’re nearly 50, son.”

DiCaprio, born in 1974, gets older every year, but his girlfriends do not — when they reach 25, they are replaced by a new one. Someone on Reddit did an actual graph — the Leonardo DiCaprio Girlfriend Chart — showing this mathematically. The internet has long been fascinated with the actor’s refusal to date anyone with a fully developed pre-frontal cortex — the bit that regulates decision-making, problem-solving and emotional regulation. The bit that cognitively makes you an adult.