America Ferrera Recalls Weeping After Meeting Leonardo DiCaprio – The Hollywood Reporter

America Ferrera might be an Oscar-nominated starlet currently, however that does not imply she no more obtains star-struck by specific stars.

Throughout a look on Late Evening With Seth Meyers, the Barbie celebrity shared that she’s been meeting individuals this honors period that she can not assist however fangirl over, consisting of Martin Scorsese and Tom Hanks, that she confessed she wished to be when she was maturing.

Ferrera additionally remembered meeting Leonardo DiCaprio in 2007, keeping in mind to the late evening host that being star-struck occasionally creeps up on her.

“More often than not, it’s someone you had a childhood connection to,” she claimed of being shocked when she fulfills a person.“So it’s always very embarrassing. … I watched Titanic in the movie theaters seven times. 13, 14 [years old], prime time to be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, right?”

She described that the very first time she mosted likely to the Display Casts Guild Honors in 2007 for Ugly Betty, she won, and it type of made her seem like she belonged, so she had not been anticipating to be off-put by a person, however after that the Titanic star himself existed.

“I said hello to him, and I promptly departed him and went around the corner and just started weeping,” Ferrera informed Meyers. “My husband, then-boyfriend, was with me, and he was like, ‘I am so embarrassed right now. This is so… like, stop crying.’ And I was like, ‘But it’s Leonardo.’”

Previously in the late evening look, Ferrera opened concerning collaborating with her real-life spouse, Ryan Piers Williams, in Barbie. He depicted her onscreen spouse.

The Dumb Cash starlet described that his spreading happened after she informed writer-director Greta Gerwig that her preferred component of the manuscript was where it claimed something like “white husband at home learning Spanish” due to the fact that her spouse remained in the space following door doing the very same point.

“And [Gerwig was] like, ‘Oh, my God, does he want to play your husband?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know,’” Ferrera claimed. “Then months and months later, she meant it. And then there he is.”