America Ferrera ‘Can’t Believe’ Her ‘Barbie’ Oscar Nom Is Real, Calls Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s Snubs ‘Incredibly Disappointing’
variety.comVariety. “And then my phone started blowing up so I figured that I must have heard it right.” The overwhelming emotion surrounding earning her first Academy Award nomination — for playing Gloria, the human lens through which “Barbie” is viewed in the $1.4 billion blockbuster comedy — has been shock. “I still haven’t really been able to get in my feelings because I’m still on like the top layer of ‘I can’t even believe that this is real,'” Ferrera explains.
Her publicist got to her first, and then Williams called. “He was screaming and emotional. And I just heard my kids in the back, like so confused. ‘What are you screaming about?'” Ferrera says, laughing.
She next heard from her “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” co-stars: Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel. “They FaceTimed me as a group right away,” Ferrera says. “It was hilarious and funny and emotional and it’s wonderful to be celebrated and held up by my sisters.
These women who I’ve had the honor of growing up with in this industry and being loved and cheered on and supported by them.
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