She’s had a remarkable career as an actress and hasn’t fared too well in her long career as a model, but the world learned of Camila Morrone’s (26) existence for a reason she had nothing to do with nothing with his talent. The Los Angeles-born daughter of Argentines was the talk of gossip magazines around the world during her five-year courtship with Leonardo DiCaprio, particularly because of the stark age difference between both of us. And although during all that time Camila was careful not to openly admit the relationship, she knew how to take advantage of the attention it generated to show what she could do with a camera in front of her.
In 2019, she won a lot of praise for her lead role in the independent film Mickey and the Bear, in which she played a Montana teenager who has to take care of the house she shares with an addict father played by James Badge Deal. The film, which was released in our cinemas in October 2020, played an important role in her being considered for one of the main roles in the Amazon miniseries Todos quieren a Daisy Jones.
Although the film had a poor performance at the United States billboards, it was shown while the casting sessions held in the months before the pandemic took place. Camila, who at a friend’s suggestion had read Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel on which the series is based, as there was a very important character named after her, was hired by director James Ponsoldt soon after to add Riley Keough to head the cast. The curious thing is that she was chosen precisely to play Camila, a photographer who follows the group The Six and falls madly in love with the band’s leader, Billy Dunne.
Morrone was invited by Ponsoldt to participate in the chemistry tests with the main candidate to keep that role, Sam Claflin. The British actor rose to fame in major blockbusters such as the fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, and the three films of The Hunger Games The result can be seen on the screen. The photographer who embodies Morrone is a woman who is ready to maintain her relationship at any cost, despite the fact that whoever becomes her husband and father of her daughter does not hide the constant infidelities and also cannot resist the temptations of the drugs and alcohol common in seventies rock groups.
If Camila Álvarez speaks Spanish like her, and although it is never revealed what her origin is, it makes it very clear that she was raised in the language of Cervantes at home. The series, which follows the rise and fall of the title band in the 1970s and their eventual association with the character played by Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, who sings well but fails to convince with her compositions , is jam-packed with current interviews with everyone involved.
Anyone who goes to Wikipedia to try to find something about Jones, Dunne or Álvarez will find nothing, since the great merit of the proposal is that it narrates as real a story that arose from Reid’s imagination. The good work earned recognition from the members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences of the United States, who awarded Todos quieren a Daisy Jones nine Emmy nominations, including one for Morrone for best actress cast in a miniseries. Voting has just concluded, but the results won’t be known until January, as the gala was postponed due to the actors’ and writers’ strike that has frozen the industry.
Her rivals are six, including Claire Danes, María Bello and Juliette Lewis. And as much as the predictions point to Niecy Nash-Betts as the potential winner for Monstruo: the story of Jeffrey Dahmer, there are many who agree that Camila can give the big surprise.
While she waits, the actress, who in March shared her happiness over Argentina’s World Cup win on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, continues on a high with the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in Patricia Arquette’s first film as a director, Gonzo Girl in which she shares the screen with Willem Defoe and plays a young writer who takes a job as an assistant to a complicated novelist, played by Arquette herself. And although for now it is not known when he will be able to see himself, he also plays the title character Marmalade, an independent film that narrates a love story between two bank robbers.
