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Teyana Taylor’s Emotional Golden Globe Win and Powerful Message
The 2026 Golden Globes are currently taking place on CBS, and the first award of the night went to Teyana Taylor. She won the Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her role as Perfidia Beverly Hills in One Battle After Another. This was her first win at the Golden Globes, which made her emotional during her acceptance speech. However, she also used the moment to deliver a powerful message to “little Black girls” around the world.
Upon stepping onto the stage, Teyana Taylor began by expressing her gratitude to the people in both her personal and professional life who contributed to her work on Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film. But before she concluded, she shared these inspiring words:
"To my brown sisters and little brown girls watching tonight, our softness is not a liability. Our depth is not too much. Our light does not need permission to shine. We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter and our dreams deserve space."
These words were a strong statement that resonated with many. Using a platform like the Golden Globes to share such a message is an effective way to reach a wide audience. It’s encouraging to see Teyana Taylor use this opportunity to inspire Black girls and women, whether they choose to follow in her footsteps in acting or channel that same confidence into other pursuits. Everyone deserves to feel empowered and valued.
In One Battle After Another, one of the best films of 2025, Teyana Taylor shares significant screen time with Leonardo DiCaprio. Her character, Perfidia, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with his character, "Ghetto" Pat Calhoun, while they fight together in the French 75 revolutionary group. At the same time, she also enters a complex and twisted relationship with Sean Penn’s Steven J. Lockjaw, whom she had previously humiliated. Perfidia eventually becomes pregnant and gives birth to a daughter named Willa, but she abandons her and Pat to continue her revolutionary activities. She is later caught after killing a security guard during a bank robbery.
I’ll stop here with the spoilers. If you haven’t seen One Battle After Another yet, I highly recommend streaming it with an HBO Max subscription. While this may be her most prominent film to date, Teyana Taylor has been a familiar face in Hollywood. Some of her other notable roles include Coming 2 America, A Thousand and One, the remake of White Men Can’t Jump, The Book of Clarence, and the Hulu series All’s Fair.
Now that Teyana Taylor has won her first Golden Globe, fans are eager to see if she will be nominated for her performance in One Battle After Another at the 98th Academy Awards. If she is nominated and wins, she might have another meaningful message to share. In the meantime, Taylor will appear in the upcoming cop thriller The Rip, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The film will be available on Netflix starting January 16.