Leonardo DiCaprio has chosen to keep the identity of his conversation partner at the Golden Globes a mystery, despite the playful clip capturing the exchange going viral. In comments shared with Deadline on Thursday, the “Titanic” actor explained his decision, saying, “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?” DiCaprio humorously added, “So, as the lead character says in ‘A Bronx Tale,’ I’m not a rat.”

During the 2026 Golden Globes on January 11, DiCaprio, who had been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in “One Battle After Another,” was caught on camera during a commercial break. The clip shows him addressing someone across the room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, mouthing the words, “I was watching you, when the K-Pop thing,” which sparked widespread curiosity online.

“So, as the lead character says in ‘A Bronx Tale,’ I’m not a rat.”

The actor — who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for “One Battle After Another” — went viral after addressing somebody during a commercial break at the 2026 Golden Globes on Jan. 11.

“I was watching you, when the K-Pop thing,” the actor, 51, mouthed to another person across the room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

“You were like, ‘Is that — who is that?’ You were like, ‘Who is that … who’s that guy? K-pop?’” The “Shutter Island” star clapped his hands together and laughed during the encounter, which only showed DiCaprio’s side.

His “One Battle After Another” co-star Teyana Taylor initially took credit for the exchange, but later walked back the claim.

“He was talking to me! Yes!” the “All’s Fair” actress, 35, told Access Hollywood.

“The crazy part about it is I am so blacked out from that day, that I want to say we might have been talking about ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ because I was so happy when they won because my kids love ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ so I was over there just jamming and I think he caught me jamming.”

Taylor later admitted that DiCaprio had been silently chatting with somebody else at Hollywood’s Party of the Year.

“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,” she said during a subsequent appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

“So apparently he had two ‘KPop Demon Hunter’ conversations that night, so ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ was just in his mouth all night.”

“And I’m like ‘Who else is you kekeing with like that?’ Because literally that’s how we talk,” she said, referring to DiCaprio’s exaggerated gestures during the exchange.

Taylor confessed to “a little friendly jealousy” over realizing the iconic actor wasn’t addressing her in the viral clip.

“I was like ‘Who else are you chewing your invisible gum with?’” she said. “He didn’t even remember who he was talking to. He was like, ‘I don’t even know.’”