When they learned each other’s ages they decided to pause things. “I thought he was in his late 30s and he thought I was 30. They went on a few dates, but the topic of age never came up. Mona Elouly, 30, met her partner, Liam Roberts, 47, at a tech industry event in London. ‘I had a lot of life really young, so I think I feel older’ … Dakota Johnson, right, and Cooper Raiff in Cha Cha Real Smooth. On ITV2’s Love Island, 19-year-old Gemma Owen’s pairing with Davide Sanclimenti, 27, has led some viewers to complain.
“I had a lot of life really young, so I think I feel older,” she has said.Įlsewhere in culture, age gaps have been explored in the coming-of-age drama Palm Trees and Power Lines the BBC’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends, which follows university student Frances and her tryst with the older, married Nick Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, in which Emma Thompson plays a fiftysomething widow who hires a much younger sex worker and Lena Dunham’s new film, Sharp Stick, about an intergenerational workplace romance. It is a subject that Johnson is familiar with, being in a much-scrutinised relationship with Coldplay singer Chris Martin, who is 13 years her senior. C ha Cha Real Smooth, which is out in the UK on Friday, is an earnest drama about an aimless 22-year-old university graduate who falls for an enigmatic thirtysomething mother, played by Dakota Johnson.
