Teyana Taylor is reflecting on her chemistry with One Battle After One other costar Leonardo DiCaprio.
“I imply, that’s my brother, that’s my household, you understand?” Taylor, 35, solely advised Us Weekly on the 2026 Critics Alternative Awards on the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday, January 4. “So, it’s by no means laborious working with household and folks that you just love.”
Taylor was nominated for Greatest Supporting Actress for her function in One Battle After One other, competing towards Ariana Grande, Amy Madigan, Wunmi Mosaku, Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas. Madigan, 75, finally took house the award for her work in Weapons.
In the meantime, DiCaprio, 51, was nominated for Greatest Actor alongside Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Ethan Hawke, Michael B. Jordan and Wagner Moura. Chalamet, 30, received the accolade for his flip in Marty Supreme.
One Battle After One other did take house a serious win, although, because the film was topped Greatest Image over Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Worth, Sinners, Prepare Desires and Depraved: For Good. Director Paul Thomas Anderson additionally received Greatest Director and Greatest Tailored Screenplay.
“Let’s go!” Taylor shouted to the viewers as she took the stage with Anderson, 55, and her costars following the Greatest Image win.
Throughout his acceptance speech, Anderson acquired emotional as he thanked everybody concerned within the film.
“Does anyone have something that they wish to say, to avoid wasting me?” he requested the forged on stage. “As a result of, OK, I’d say that is the most effective time I ever had making a film. And I really feel prefer it reveals it’s only a testomony to being with folks that you just love. As a result of, as any person mentioned earlier, that is fantastic and that is enjoyable, nevertheless it actually is in regards to the folks that you just work with — that’s all that there’s on the finish of the day.”
In One Battle After One other, DiCaprio performs Bob, a “washed-up revolutionary” who exists “in a state of stoned paranoia” and survives “off-grid” with daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti), based on the synopsis. Taylor performs Perfidia, Willa’s mom and Bob’s companion.
Taylor beforehand gushed about her immediate friendship with DiCaprio in a September 2025 interview with The New York Occasions, revealing they met years earlier than their movie.
“Humorous factor: Me and Leo truly met at Diana Ross’ birthday celebration some years again and immediately turned finest buds,” the actress advised the outlet. “That’s my wingman, my companion in crime!”
DiCaprio added, “I’ve recognized Teyana for a very long time.”
The Titanic star additionally mentioned that his friendship with Taylor is what led her to be forged in One Battle After One other.
“Paul and I had been speaking about who would play this lightning rod of a personality that was a radical but additionally any person that was capable of manipulate,” he defined. “The echoes of her character reverberate all through all the film, and each character is emotionally scarred by Perfidia. So we knew we wanted to get any person that could possibly be not solely daring and outspoken, however convey that improvisational expertise of fact within the second.”
DiCaprio mentioned of Taylor, “She simply embodied that character in a means that I don’t suppose anybody else may. We’re all left as carnage after she comes onscreen, choosing up the items of our lives.”
