The 27-year-old actress Frieda Pinto has been dating her Slumdog Millionaire co-star Dev Patel since they worked on the film together in 2007 and because they have “shared so much together” he is the only person who knows how to “uplift” her mood.
She said, “We have shared so much together; and he is always the person I go to first. When you’ve shared something like that, you have no one else to go to but that person who completely understands. So if I have a complete downer, he knows exactly how to uplift my moods and I can do the same for him. It actually helps a lot having gone through the same experience, when that experience is so unique.”
Freida is six years older than Dev but insists he is the mature person in their relationship. She told The Independent’s Arts and Books Review magazine, “Some people don’t actually know that he’s six years younger than I am! He’s too mature. I keep telling him, ‘Stop being an old man!’ He’s just an old soul. The way he speaks and thinks, he’s so philosophical and deep. I’m like, ‘You don’t sound like a 21-year-old to me!’ At least that’s not how I was when I was 21.” While Dev is mature beyond his years, the Black Gold star actress doesn’t want marriage and children until later in life.