A historic Mischa Barton interview has emerged amid the brand new backlash towards Leonardo DiCaprio‘s courting habits.
The actor’s penchant for courting youthful girls has seen him hit headlines this week, after DiCaprio, 48, was linked to a 19-year-old mannequin, Eden Polani. Many individuals have slated the actor for courting girls considerably youthful than him whereas highlighting the supposed truth he’s by no means dated anybody over the age of 25.
Now a historic interview with The O.C. star Barton has surfaced on-line. The interview sees her element a dialog with a publicist the place she says she was informed to “go and sleep” with the Titanic star.
As reported by Buzzfeed, the actor was interviewed by the UK arm of Harper’s Bazaar, which was identified on the time as Harpers & Queens. Barton made a candid revelation within the interview. She remarked that she’d had a dialog along with her publicist, Craig Schneider, throughout which, she stated, she was informed to make use of DiCaprio for the betterment of her profession.
Barton was 19 on the time and starring within the teen drama hit, The O.C., whereas DiCaprio was round 30 on the time. The actor recounted how she and her publicist have been out and about once they noticed DiCaprio doing a photograph shoot in Malibu, California.
Barton is claimed to have quoted her publicist as telling her: “For the sake of your profession, go and sleep with that man.” Nevertheless, Barton is claimed to have dismissed the concept of being with a person of his age, saying: “Isn’t Leo, like, 30 or one thing?”
Barton noticed mainstream success in 2003 when she was forged as Marissa Cooper within the common TV sequence The O.C., and was two years into her time on the present when in keeping with the Harpers interview, she obtained the surprising publicity recommendation.
DiCaprio has seen his profession rise and rise since 2005, even then an A-Checklist star. The actor has since gained an Oscar and starred in array of movies, together with The Wolf Of Wall Avenue and As soon as Upon A Time In Hollywood.
DiCaprio has by no means married, however has had quite a few excessive profile romances. Because the actor has creeped in direction of his half-century his selection of courting girls inside a seemingly never-changing age bracket has come beneath fireplace, resulting in accusation and scrutiny from varied media outlet, similar to The Independent.
NME has reached out to representatives of DiCaprio and Schneider for remark.