{"id":391322,"date":"2026-01-06T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391322\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:27:14","slug":"teyana-taylor-calls-leonardo-dicaprio-pops-and-he-loves-it-whatever-she-wants-to-call-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391322\/","title":{"rendered":"Teyana Taylor Calls Leonardo DiCaprio ‘Pops’ and He Loves It: ‘Whatever She Wants to Call Me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n

Teyana Taylor gave Leonardo DiCaprio a surprising new nickname during an interview at the Critics Choice Awards<\/p>\n

The actors costar in One Battle After Another, which won Best Picture and three awards total at the Sunday, Jan. 4 awards ceremony<\/p>\n

Taylor and DiCaprio previously shared that they first met and struck up a friendship at Diana Ross’ birthday party years ago<\/p>\n

Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> approves of his One Battle After Another<\/a> costar Teyana Taylor<\/a>‘s nickname for him.<\/p>\n

When Taylor, 35, and DiCaprio, 51, spoke with E! News<\/a> at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards<\/a> on Sunday, Jan. 4, Taylor referred to the Academy Award<\/a>-winning actor as “Pops” while she discussed her role in their movie.<\/p>\n

“Preparing for Perfidia was a lot of conversation with P [director Paul Thomas Anderson], good conversation, you know?” Taylor told the outlet of her character in the movie. “Really building those layers and color-coordinating those layers and making sure we set it up for Perfidia to fall back for baby girl Willa to rise and take on these battles along with Pops right here.”<\/p>\n

When E! asked DiCaprio for his opinion on Taylor calling him “Pops,” the actor responded, “Love it. Love it. Whatever she wants to call me.”<\/p>\n

\"Christopher<\/p>\n

Christopher Polk\/Variety via Getty<\/p>\n

Michael De Luca, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pamela Abdy and Benicio del Toro win the Critics Choice Award for Best Picture for “One Battle After Another”<\/p>\n

Taylor and DiCaprio portray a couple who meet and have a daughter together while actively working with a revolutionary political group in One Battle After Another. The movie’s story kicks into action when Taylor’s character Perfidia is captured by government forces led by Sean Penn<\/a>‘s villain Steven J. Lockjaw, whom she also grows romantically involved with, forcing DiCaprio and their daughter (Chase Infiniti) into hiding under the names Bob Ferguson and Willa Ferguson for the next 16 years.<\/p>\n

The dynamic acting duo previously revealed during a September interview with The New York Times<\/a> that they “first met\u00a0at\u00a0Diana Ross<\/a>\u2019s birthday party some years back and instantly became best buds<\/a>,\u201d as Taylor said at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my wingman, my partner in crime!\u201d she added of DiCaprio in that interview.<\/p>\n

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\"Courtesy<\/p>\n

Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n

One Battle After Another<\/p>\n

One Battle After Another won Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards<\/a>, along with wins for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a> in the ceremony’s Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories. (The movie was loosely adapted from the 1990 novel Vineland by author Thomas Pynchon.)<\/p>\n

DiCaprio and Taylor were each nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, but neither took home the award. At the upcoming Golden Globe Awards<\/a> on Jan. 11, One Battle After Another leads all nominated movies with nine total nominations<\/a>, giving both actors and Anderson more chances to take home prizes \u2014 and break out DiCaprio’s latest nickname once more.<\/p>\n

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