Jenna Ortegaadmitted that she was starstruck at the29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awardslast month.
OnThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonon Thursday, the 20-year-old Wednesday star recalled her first time meetingPaul Mescal, who was seated at the same table as her during the awards ceremony.
“I was kind of freaking outbecause [Zendaya] was sitting next to Paul Mescal, who I think is so talented and so good,” Ortega told hostJimmy Fallonof theOscar nominee. “And I was so nervous to meet him and I knew he was going to be at my table. And I remember he introduced himself to me when I wasn’t expecting it.”
“He was like, ‘Oh, Hi! Nice to meet you. I’m Paul.’ And I was nervous, I kind of couldn’t look him in the eye so I fear that it was bit like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.Aftersunwas great,'” she said, reenacting their conversation.
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After a good 10 seconds of silence standing at the podium, Plaza, 38, finally said, “I don’t know why they paired us up together.”
“I know, we have nothing in common,” Ortega replied.
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“We should find the people who did this,” Plaza said, before the two actors simultaneously recited, “And curse their families and watch as misfortune follows their bloodline for the next seven generations.”
“Okay, I see it now,” Plaza joked.
Fans couldn’t get enough oftheir chilling chemistryat the awards show, Ortega said on theThe Tonight Showshe “would do anything” with theParks and Recreationalum.
“She’s another one of those people where everyone kept saying, ‘Oh you remind me of Aubrey, or, ‘You two should get together,'” she added. “And we just never did until we were backstage then.”
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source: people.com
