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 turning into starstruck by different celebrities can “sneak up on you” throughout a Friday look on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”
“More often than not, it’s like someone you had a childhood connection to, right?” Ferrara stated. “So it’s always very embarrassing.”
America Ferrara admitted that she “started weeping” after assembly Leonardo DiCaprio. (Getty)
She continued, “I’m debating, like, ‘Do I even want to say this out loud? But, OK.’”
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Ferrara went on to recount assembly her teenage crush DiCaprio, now 49, after she received the perfect feminine actor in a comedy collection award for her efficiency in “Ugly Betty” on the 2007 SAG Awards.
“I watched Titanic in the movie theaters seven times,” she recalled. “[I was] 13, 14 [years old], prime time to be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, right?”
“OK, so first time I went to the SAG Awards, and I had won for ‘Betty,’ I had been onstage and the whole thing,” Ferrera remembered. “I was feeling kind of like, ‘I belong here, this is cool.'”
“And then Leonardo DiCaprio was there, and I said ‘Hello’ to him, and I promptly departed him and went around the corner and just started weeping,” she stated.
Ferrara recalled that she met DiCaprio after she received an award on the 2007 Emmys. (Albert L. Ortega/WireImage)
“And my husband, then-boyfriend, was with me and he was like, ‘I am so embarrassed right now.'”
Ferrara informed Meyers that her husband Ryan Piers Williams, whom she married in 2011, urged her to “stop crying.”
“And I was like, ‘But it’s Leonardo!” she stated.
“I hope Leonardo DiCaprio by no means sees this,” Ferrara added.
“The good thing is he probably won’t,” Meyers joked.
The actress defined that she was “in love” with DiCaprio after watching his 1997 film “Titanic.” (Getty Photos)
Meyers, 50, then informed Ferrara that he did the “same thing” 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 was like, ‘Oh, thanks, so nice to meet you.’ Walked around — full cry,” he recalled. And my spouse wasn’t with me, however I FaceTimed as a result of I wished her to see.”
During her appearance on “Late Evening with Seth Meyers,” Ferrara shared that she was recently almost brought to tears after Tom Hanks complimented her on her performance in “Barbie.”
Ferrara said she was also almost brought to tears by meeting Tom Hanks. (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
The “Superstore” alum said that she met Hanks, 67, at the Governors Awards on Jan. 9.
“Rising up, folks have been like, ‘Oh, who do you want to be? Like Salma Hayek, like J.Lo?’ I used to be like, ‘Tom Hanks,’ she remembered. “I wanted to be Tom Hanks. Like, that was my goal. And just a couple weeks ago, he came up to me and he said very nice things to me.”
“It was like I was in seven different timelines at the same time,” Ferrara stated of her response to Hanks’ remarks. “I was like eight[years-old], I was ten, I was 14, I was 80 remembering this on my deathbed.”
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“It was just so crazy,” she added. “I was like, ‘If you knew what was happening in my mind right now.’ But he was saying really nice things to me. And I was trying to remember every single thing he said. And at the same time, I was shaking and terrified that I was going to start crying in front of him.”
Ferrara was nominated for her first Oscar for her function as Gloria in final summer season’s mega-hit “Barbie,” which earned a complete of eight nominations. She’s 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.
