Leonardo DiCaprio spent Labor Day weekend at the beach with his girlfriend. How normal was that sentence? So normal! On holiday weekends past, he would be on a mega-yacht in Sardinia, maybe, or a gondola in Venice for the festival. He would be on a plane somewhere doing laps around the South of France. But he was here, in Malibu, just…going to beach like the rest of the hoi polloi.
These beach pics are not like those in Bora Bora or the photos we don’t see because he’s on the island that Francis Ford Coppola owns. They’re just regular old photos of a man in his board shorts and a trucker hat. He’s carrying his own towel around his own towel-holder (neck) thank you very much. He’s there with his girlfriend, who he’s been with for a long time, at least in Leo years, and she is sometimes chatting with him and sometimes looking at her phone. It’s all very normal without, like, a Zoom background from a Thai beach behind them.
This virus has kept many home, living more interior lives, really marinating into one’s surroundings. And Leo, just like us, has become something of a homebody. Or a Malibu-body. He’s been seen on the beach so much this summer, smiling, playing in the water, looking rather at home. Among the many questions that this period has left us, one of them is, will yacht Leo ever come back? As the weather in L.A. turns, as this thing keeps on keeping on, as we turn the page to fall, will he go back to yachts and planes? Or will he live the simple life, with his girlfriend on the beach, a towel around his neck? Time can only tell.
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