America Ferrara recalled bursting into tears after assembly Leonardo DiCaprio for the primary time.
The 39-year-old “Barbie” actress, who’s among the many nominees on the upcoming Academy Awards, famous that changing into starstruck by different celebrities can “sneak up on you” throughout a Friday look on “Late Evening with Seth Meyers.”
“Most of the time, it is like somebody you had a childhood connection to, proper?” Ferrara mentioned. “So it is at all times very embarrassing.”
She continued, “I am debating, like, ‘Do I even wish to say this out loud? However, OK.’”
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Ferrara went on to recount assembly her teenage crush DiCaprio, now 49, after she gained the most effective feminine actor in a comedy sequence award for her efficiency in “Ugly Betty” on the 2007 SAG Awards.
“I watched Titanic within the film theaters seven occasions,” she recalled. “[I was] 13, 14 [years old], prime time to be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, proper?”
“OK, so first time I went to the SAG Awards, and I had gained for ‘Betty,’ I had been onstage and the entire thing,” Ferrera remembered. “I used to be feeling form of like, ‘I belong right here, that is cool.'”
“After which Leonardo DiCaprio was there, and I mentioned ‘Hey’ to him, and I promptly departed him and went across the nook and simply began weeping,” she mentioned.
“And my husband, then-boyfriend, was with me and he was like, ‘I’m so embarrassed proper now.'”
Ferrara instructed Meyers that her husband Ryan Piers Williams, whom she married in 2011, urged her to “cease crying.”
“And I used to be like, ‘But it surely’s Leonardo!” she mentioned.
“I hope Leonardo DiCaprio by no means sees this,” Ferrara added.
“The great factor is he most likely will not,” Meyers joked.
Meyers, 50, then instructed Ferrara that he did the “identical factor” when he met Julia Roberts for the primary time. The comic defined that the encounter occurred backstage whereas he was internet hosting the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2014.
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“I walked by her. She was like, ‘Hey, good job.’ I used to be like, ‘Oh, thanks, so good to satisfy you.’ Walked round — full cry,” he recalled. And my spouse wasn’t with me, however I FaceTimed as a result of I needed her to see.”
Throughout her look on “Late Evening with Seth Meyers,” Ferrara shared that she was not too long ago virtually dropped at tears after Tom Hanks complimented her on her efficiency in “Barbie.”
The “Superstore” alum mentioned that she met Hanks, 67, on the Governors Awards on Jan. 9.
“Rising up, individuals had been like, ‘Oh, who do you wish to be? Like Salma Hayek, like J.Lo?’ I used to be like, ‘Tom Hanks,’ she remembered. “I needed to be Tom Hanks. Like, that was my purpose. And only a couple weeks in the past, he got here as much as me and he mentioned very good issues to me.”
“It was like I used to be in seven totally different timelines on the identical time,” Ferrara mentioned of her response to Hanks’ remarks. “I used to be like eight[years-old], I used to be ten, I used to be 14, I used to be 80 remembering this on my deathbed.”
“It was simply so loopy,” she added. “I used to be like, ‘In the event you knew what was taking place in my thoughts proper now.’ However he was saying very nice issues to me. And I used to be making an attempt to recollect each single factor he mentioned. And on the identical time, I used to be shaking and terrified that I used to be going to start out crying in entrance of him.”
Ferrara was nominated for her first Oscar for her function as Gloria in final summer time’s mega-hit “Barbie,” which earned a complete of eight nominations. She is going to compete for the award towards fellow nominees Jodie Foster, Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph on the ceremony on March 10 at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater.
