Fantasia Barrino Fangirls Over Leonardo DiCaprio as She Spots Him Mid-Speech: ‘Love You!’
“My new best friend Fantasia over there,” the actor quipped as he opened his own speech during Variety‘s Power of Women event in L.A. on Thursday
Fantasia Barrino is a Leonardo DiCaprio fangirl!
The Grammy winner expressed her appreciation for actor DiCaprio at Variety‘s Power of Women event in Los Angeles on Thursday evening, giving him a shout-out in the middle of her speech.
As she accepted her award, Barrino, 39, suddenly became visibly distracted and turned her head, saying, “So I want to thank you … oh my God, is that Leonardo DiCaprio?”
Pointing at the offscreen Oscar winner, 49, as the audience laughed, Barrino said, “Sorry! Keep this in the film. Hi, love you!” and waved at DiCaprio before getting back to her speech.
The actor later shouted out Barrino in his own speech before introducing his Killers of the Flower Moon costar Lily Gladstone, opening with, “My new best friend Fantasia over there.”
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Also during her speech, Barrino said she “didn’t think that [she] would come this far,” and thanked Celie, her character in The Color Purple both on Broadway and the upcoming film adaption, which will mark her big-screen debut.
And while she admitted she “didn’t want to play this role again” because she it “would bring up some certain things in my life that I thought I was over,” she changed her mind when she thought about the wide impact it would have.
The American Idol season 3 winner concluded, “This award goes to Celie and my daughter, and every young lady that’s gonna go through some things. But it doesn’t matter what you go through, baby. We fall down, but we get back up. You Google me. I fell, but I’m up.”
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During DiCaprio’s speech at the Power of Women event, he praised his “very good friend” Gladstone, 37, not only for her “shape-shifting” performance as Mollie Burkhart in the Martin Scorsese epic Killers of the Flower Moon, but for her activism as well.
“Her tireless and passionate efforts reflect a commitment to rectifying systematic issues within our country and tribal communities,” he said. “Her work with the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, a native-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence against Native American, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian women, is a deep part of who she is.”
DiCaprio went on to tell Gladstone that he is “filled with immense pride we were able to tell this story together — that we did this film together.”
“It was a necessary truth,” he added. “It was truth about how much has been stolen from the Native Americans, the systematic violence towards Native women, and a story that at its very heart is a microcosm of the ongoing persecution of the Native Americans that still exists today.”
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