Leonardo DiCaprio’s viral 2026 Golden Globes video has been explained, finally!

Leo was filmed making animated gestures and miming to talk to someone far from him, all the while smiling and laughing. The video went viral and people wondered who he was talking to.

His One Battle After Another costar Teyana Taylor has come forward to reveal that he was talking to her.

While at The Rip premiere red carpet in New York City on Tuesday, January 13, the actress wasasked, “What do you think of the viral K-pop Leo video?”

“Oh, my God. He was talking to me,” she said. “That’s what makes it even funnier.”

According to various lip readers online, the Titanic star said, “I was watching you with the K-pop thing.” He made some gestures and faces and continued, “You were like, ‘Is that? K-pop?'”

At the Golden Globes, Teyana and Leo were both nominated for their roles in One Battle After Another. The actress bagged the Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture gong but Leo lost to Marty Spreme’s Timothee Chalamet in the Best Actor category.

In a new interview after the win, Teyana gushed over working with Leo and Paul Thomas Anderson and then Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in The Rip.

“Oh, my God, it’s been like, busy, busy, busy,” she told Vanity Fair. “But in the best way, of course. I think going from being able to work with Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, I’m like, this is a lot.”

She added, “To see people handling me with so much care and love, it’s been like I’ve been moving from master class to master class. … It’s like, I am able to be the best version of myself because I’m surrounded by the best of the best?”