Leonardo DiCaprio Won’t Share Who He Was Chatting with in Viral Golden Globes Video: ‘I’m Not a Rat!’

Leonardo DiCaprio is keeping quiet about his viral moment at the 2026 Golden Globes.

DiCaprio was caught on camera putting on animated expressions and laughing during a conversation with someone just out of sight at the Golden Globes earlier this month. The award show’s official TikTok page posted the clip, and it quickly went viral.

Shortly after earning a Best Actor Oscar nomination for One Battle After Another on Jan. 22 — marking DiCaprio’s whopping eighth Academy Award nomination to date — the actor, 51, told Deadline that he was speaking with “a friend” — but left the details there.

“It was directed to a friend, but at the end of the day, who knows if this other person that I was talking to wants me to even mention their name?” he told the outlet. “So, as the lead character says in A Bronx Tale, I’m not a rat.”

DiCaprio’s One Battle After Another costar Teyana Taylor previously told Access Hollywood that she and DiCaprio were “kekeing” about how her daughters Junie, 10, and Rue, 5, love the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters, and she “didn’t know that that whole moment was being captured” — but she later shared on The Tonight Show that she realized after the fact that DiCaprio was speaking to someone else in the viral clip.

“I was like, ‘You can’t be talking to me, were you talking to me?’ Because I already told people you was talking to me. So apparently he had two KPop Demon Hunter conversations that night, so KPop Demon Hunters was just in his mouth all night,” Taylor joked to Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.

“And I’m like ‘Who else is you kekeing with like that?’ Because literally that’s how we [talk, with animated gestures],” Taylor said of DiCaprio, whom she has been friends with for years. “So I had a little friendly jealousy, I was like ‘Who else are you chewing your invisible gum with?’ He didn’t even remember who he was talking to. He was like, ‘I don’t even know.’ ”

During a commercial break for the Golden Globes, DiCaprio was seen making eye contact with someone nearby. He pointed at them and then appeared to mouth, “I was watching you, when the K-Pop thing, you were like, ‘Is that — who is that?’ ”

He then started laughing as he spoke to the fellow star, who did not appear in the video clip shared by The New York Times reporter Kyle Buchanan.

One Battle After Another took home four Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Taylor for her performance as Perfidia Beverly Hills. Both actors are nominated at the 2026 Actor Awards on March 1, where the movie has received six total nominations.

On Thursday morning, even more nominations were announced for the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed thriller film. The film also nabbed nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for both Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Taylor, Achievement in Directing, for Anderson, and more.

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The nomination marked a milestone for DiCaprio, who joins a rare group of actors to have earned at least seven Oscars, including Ingrid Bergman, Jeff Bridges, Richard Burton, Robert Duvall, Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman and Kate Winslet.

“That is the ultimate compliment for this film,” DiCaprio told Deadline of the nominations. “Having watched the film that way a multitude of times myself, I feel it’s a testament to the incredible amount of thought that Paul put into this story.”

“To me, it really is original filmmaking and a really multifaceted world, about a subject that is so pertinent to the world we’re living in, and the confusion of the world we’re living in, and the hostility and the extremism,” the actor continued. “Paul made one of those films that I’m going to be so proud to look back. I feel like he really put his thumb on the pulse of America right now. I hope it will be remembered that way, and lives on for years to come.”