Teyana Taylor finally got to live out the dream of her 10-year-old Titanic-loving self when she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another, the actress revealed at the top of the 2026 Actor Awards in the show’s signature “I am an actor” segment.
Watching the film, Taylor said she saw, “Rose let Jack sink to the bottom, because we know good and well he could have fit his ass on that goddamn door.”
She added, “I made a promise that if I ever got the chance to work with Leonardo DiCaprio, that I wouldn’t let him drown,” Instead, she said, referring to her One Battle character, revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills, “I’d run off, rob a bank and left him with a whole damn baby.”
Later in the segment, Michael J. Fox got an enthusiastic round of applause, so much so that he had to pause his remarks, when he recalled how his role on Family Ties gave him the “biggest gift” when he met his wife, Tracy Pollan, on set and that she in turn gave him the gifts of their four children, one of whom was with Fox as his date for the evening.
Other highlights from the segment, which also included Kristen Wiig, Kate Hudson and Delroy Lindo, included Wiig reading a script and Hudson recalling, as brother Oliver Hudson made faces over her shoulder, how she was “boy crazy,” “too loud” and “got in trouble for daydreaming” and “was sent home from school for inappropriate dress” and her “makeup choices were too distracting,” which she later discovered were “marketable skills” as an actress. Lindo, meanwhile, said the success he was having now has made him think back to the times when he struggled as he encouraged fellow actors to keep going.
The 2026 Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards, is streaming live on Netflix on Sunday night. In 2019, then-executive producer Kathy Connell spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the history of the segment, which dates back to the first Screen Actors Guild Awards on March 8, 1995, when Angela Lansbury spoke about the memorable roles she’d played and talked about the significance of the SAG Awards‘ actor statuette.
But it was Michael Keaton who was the first to say “I’m an actor” at the second SAG Awards in 1996. The segment initially just featured one actor but was expanded to five performers in 2003 at the suggestion of then-supervising producer Gloria Fujita O’Brien.
“I loved the inspiration of the show,” she told THR in 2019, “and I thought that five people telling short stories would inspire all of the new people coming up.”
Wiig is nominated for best actress in a comedy series for her role in Palm Royale, Kate Hudson is up for best actress in a film for her role in Song Sung Blue, Taylor is nominated for best supporting actress and as part of the ensemble up for best cast for her role in One Battle After Another, and Lindo is up for best supporting actor and as part of the ensemble up for best cast for his role in Sinners. While Fox is not nominated this year, he recently returned to acting for the first time since he retired in 2020 with a guest role in Shrinking, with his first appearance coming in the series’ season three premiere.