In late **June of 2025**, while Celeste's dismembered body was still hidden in d4vd's Tesla in the Hollywood Hills, d4vd went on *The Escape Pod* podcast, and revealed his **celebrity crush - Taylor Russell**.

He called out two specific Taylor Russell movies - namely, *Bones and All* and *Waves.* Both movie references, especially in retrospect, were quite disturbing and telling. (d4vd also previously reposted TikTok about Bones and All in 2024.)

***Bones and All*** is a 2022 romantic horror film starring Taylor Russel and Timothy Chalamet as two young cannibals who develop feelings for each other on a road trip across the United States. After the autopsy report indicated that two of Celeste's fingers had been cut off (and missing), some Redditors noted the eerie opening scene of *Bones and All* in which a human finger is eaten. (Others have also pointed to the finger-eating motif in manga and anime series that d4vd was a fan of.)

***Waves*** is a 2019 psychological drama that revolves around storyline of a teenage girl becoming pregnant and after deciding to keep the baby against her boyfriend's wishes is eventually murdered by the very same unhinged boyfriend. Especially now, given the text messages between d4vd and Celeste, including discussions of real pregnancy and abortion, that came out in the preliminary hearings in July, d4vd's flippant reference to this film (as Celeste's remains still sat in his car) cannot or at least should not be dismissed as coincidental or simply irrelevant.

***Some previous Reddit posts on the subject:***

[Bones and all](https://www.reddit.com/r/d4vd2/comments/1oj6b0p/bones_and_all/), October 29, 2025

[Finger Theory](https://www.reddit.com/r/CelesteRivasHernandez/comments/1t16y3l/finger_theory/), May 1, 2026

[I found his Letterboxd account… looks like he’s been watching and reviewing movies the whole time](https://www.reddit.com/r/d4vdiots/comments/1ssrdvo/i_found_his_letterboxd_account_looks_like_hes/), April 22, 2026 (If authentic - and there is reason to believe it is if you dig into it, d4vd rated *Bones and All* highly in this account) 

Looking Back: 2 months after murdering and dismembering Celeste, d4vd joked(?) about "plan" for his celebrity crush Taylor Russell (and dropped some disturbing movie call-outs in doing so)