{"id":254046,"date":"2026-01-23T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254046\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:56:08","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-addresses-viral-golden-globes-moment-adds-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254046\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio addresses viral Golden Globes moment, adds confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo DiCaprio was shown speaking to an unseen person about KPop Demon Hunters during a Golden Globes commercial break.Teyana Taylor, DiCaprio&#8217;s One Battle After Another costar, initially said it was her, before walking back the comment.DiCaprio has added a new confusing layer to the saga in his new address of the moment.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The saga of <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/leonardo-dicaprio\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>&#8216;s viral <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/leonardo-dicaprio-viral-antics-golden-globes-commercial-break-11883444\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Globes commercial break moment<\/a> has amounted to one mystery after another.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> After scoring his seventh Oscar nomination for this performance in Paul Thomas Anderson&#8217;s One Battle After Another, DiCaprio finally addressed a story that&#8217;s captivated fans for the last two weeks: when he was captured on camera speaking enthusiastically about KPop Demon Hunters during a <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/2026-golden-globes-winners-full-list-11881675\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Golden Globes<\/a> commercial break.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Speculation quickly began regarding who DiCaprio spoke to in the video (below), with the actor&#8217;s One Battle After Another costar, fellow Oscar nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/teyana-taylor\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teyana Taylor<\/a>, initially <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/teyana-taylor-leonardo-dicaprio-viral-golden-globes-kpop-demon-hunters-11885977\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealing that it was her<\/a> before <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/teyana-taylor-leonardo-dicaprio-viral-golden-globes-kpop-demon-hunters-11885977\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recanting the claim<\/a>. But now, DiCaprio has addressed the moment in an even more confusing fashion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cIt was directed to a friend,&#8221; the 51-year-old told <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/leonardo-dicaprio-oscar-nomination-interview-one-battle-1236693162\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>, before adding, &#8220;At the end of the day, who knows if this other person that I was talking to wants me to even mention their name?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p> Leonardo DiCaprio speaks to someone about &#8216;KPop Demon Hunters&#8217; at Golden Globes.<\/p>\n<p>CBS<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> He finished his brief remarks on the moment with a cryptic quote, telling the outlet, &#8220;So, as the lead character says in\u00a0A Bronx Tale, I\u2019m not a rat.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Entertainment Weekly previously reached out to a representative for DiCaprio for comment on the moment.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> After the 2026 Globes, Taylor told Access Hollywood, &#8220;He was talking to me, yes,&#8221;\u00a0before admitting that she &#8220;blacked out&#8221; from excitement at the event.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;I want to say we might&#8217;ve been talking about\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters,&#8221; she said, with lip-reading TikTok users also speculating in various posts that DiCaprio was, indeed, speaking about the Best Original Song and Best Animated Film winner in the viral clip.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Then, Taylor stoked further confusion when <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/teyana-taylor-leonardo-dicaprio-viral-golden-globes-kpop-demon-hunters-11885977\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she appeared on The Tonight Show the day after<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_25-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;Yesterday I thought I broke the Da Vinci Code, right?&#8221; Taylor told Jimmy Fallon on the talk show, before walking back her earlier comments.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_27-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;Apparently he had two\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters\u00a0conversations that night.\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters\u00a0was just in his mouth all night. I&#8217;m like, who else were you kiki&#8217;ing with like that? Because literally that&#8217;s how we kiki,&#8221; Taylor said, adding that she had &#8220;a little friendly jealousy&#8221; with whoever DiCaprio spoke to in the clip.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_31-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Elsewhere in his Deadline interview, DiCaprio spoke about his upcoming projects \u2014 including his role in Michael Mann&#8217;s highly anticipated Heat 2, a long-gestating sequel to the filmmaker&#8217;s 1995 film starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_33-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;On\u00a0Heat 2, we\u2019re keeping that one tight,\u201d he said, with the outlet indicating he shut down further inquiry about the project.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_35-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Watch DiCaprio&#8217;s viral Golden Globes moment in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio was shown speaking to an unseen person about KPop Demon Hunters during a Golden Globes commercial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-254046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}