America Ferrera may be an Oscar-nominated actress, but she couldn’t hold back the tears when she first met Leonardo DiCaprio.
Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Friday the 39-year-old Barbie star explained that being a star would “sneak up” on you at industry events, before detailing one celebrity encounter that made her “cry”.
As she explained, this usually happens when she meets someone she had a “childhood connection with,” like when she met DiCaprio, now 49, at the 2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she won an award for her role. in the movie Ugly Betty.
“I watched Titanic in cinemas seven times. [I was] 13, 14 [years old], the best time to have a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio, right? Okay, so I went to the SAG Awards for the first time and I won for Ugly Betty, I was on stage and the whole thing,” she recalled. “I felt like, ‘I belong here, this is cool.’ ”
At the awards show, she ended by saying “hello” to DiCaprio. “And I left immediately [from] him, came around the corner and just started crying,” said Ferrera.
“And my husband, my boyfriend at the time, was with me and he said, ‘I’m so embarrassed right now.’ ”
Ferrera’s husband, Ryan Piers Williams, whom she married in 2011, then encouraged Ferrera to “stop crying”.
“I hope Leonardo DiCaprio never sees this,” Ferrera told Meyers, who joked that “he probably won’t.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Ferrera recently opened up about how she was taken aback by some of the praise she received from other movie stars for her latest role. Earlier this month, she appeared at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Virtuosos Awards, where she told correspondent Dave Karger on stage that she was still blown away by Tom Hanks’ kind words.
“I don’t know if I’m ready to talk about it. I’m not ready to talk about what he said, but I guess whenever someone asks me, who were the actors you grew up wanting to be? I’d say Tom Hanks,” Ferrera told Karger . “I wanted to be Tom Hanks more than any other actor. I did. He’s every man. He’s like, we all see ourselves in him, right?”
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After stressing that she “won’t cry” on stage, The Superstore The alum detailed her interaction with the 67-year-old actor without going into too much detail.
“He came up to me at an event and said really nice things and I’m still recovering from that, and it was really a moment where I felt like… ‘Okay, I’m happy, I can tap now,'” she recalled. “Tom Hanks just said nice things to me.”
Ferrera is up for an Oscar in the best supporting actress category for her role in the 2023 blockbuster. Barbie. Nine other actors also earned their first nominations this year for the March 10 awards ceremony, which takes place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
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