Can Leonardo DiCapricious replace Ben Sadfleck in our hearts and memes? That's a hard yes

Is Leonardo DiCaprio gunning for our hearts and memes? The “One Battle After Another” prima surely gave it his each Sunday astatine the Golden Globes.

First, determination were DiCaprio’s reactions to big Nikki Glaser joking astir each the things he’d managed to execute professionally — earlier his woman turned 30. Vittoria Ceretti is 27, truthful helium inactive has a fewer much years to polish that resume with, say, Oscar No. 2.

He smiled, helium pointed, helium gave a thumbs up. So good, Glaser said, truthful vaping good.

Glaser besides apologized, much than hinting that she had to bash it due to the fact that the 51-year-old’s penchant for dating models successful their 20s was the lone happening the nationalist knew astir him personally. (Though helium didn’t precisely fell the full smoker-turned-vaping icon thing.)

“Leo, I’m atrocious I made that joke. It’s cheap,” she said. “You cognize what, I tried not to, but like, we don’t cognize thing other astir you, man. Like, there’s thing else. Like, unfastened up. I’m serious. I looked. I searched. The astir in-depth interrogation you’ve ever fixed was successful Teen Beat mag successful 1991. Is your favourite nutrient inactive ‘pasta, pasta and much pasta’?”

TBH, we truly would person preferred her to inquire him if helium inactive wants to survey oceanography and thrust a solar-powered 1982 Jaguar. (Guessing it’s a yes connected the Jaguar.)

Anyway, DiCaprio got a small much animated astatine that infinitesimal than helium was connected the reddish carpet, but it took going to a commercialized interruption for him to spell genuinely meme-worthy.

“I was watching you with the K-pop thing, you were like, ‘Who’s that, is that, oh, K-pop,’” DiCaprio said to idiosyncratic disconnected camera, gesticulating and over-pronouncing to marque himself understandable successful what tin beryllium a precise large room. Which shouldn’t beryllium that funny, but it looked similar this.

The “I’m watching you” movement. The elaborate manus gestures. The polite play clap. Capped by a laughter and grin that made him look similar a younger Burt Reynolds with conscionable a interaction of Jack Nicholson. Think motion connection for radical who tin hear.

Perhaps alternatively of Ben Sadfleck, we present person Leo DiCapricious? Leo Discombobulated? It was decidedly a implicit alteration of nationalist persona. When DiCaprio took the signifier aboriginal successful the show, aft his movie “One Battle After Another” won for champion picture, drama oregon musical, helium was backmost to looking mostly similar helium was trying to support that small nicotine pouch from moving astir successful his mouth.

DiCaprio’s doctrine connected fame, by the way, is successful enactment with that: Keep your rima shut.

“It’s been a equilibrium I’ve been managing my full big life, and inactive I’m not an expert,” helium told Time past month, aft the outlet dubbed him its entertainer of the twelvemonth for 2025. “I deliberation my elemental doctrine is lone get retired determination and bash thing erstwhile you person thing to say, oregon you person thing to amusement for it. Otherwise, conscionable vanish arsenic overmuch arsenic you perchance can.”

After the fame and attraction helium scored with “Titanic” astir 30 years ago, helium said, helium needed to find a mode to person a agelong vocation successful Hollywood.

“I emotion what I do,” helium told Time, “and I consciousness similar the champion mode to person a agelong vocation is to get retired of people’s face.”

From your lips to God’s ears, Leo. We’ve got our eyes connected you.