James McAvoy said bumping into Jennifer Aniston “wasn’t great”.
The 45-year-old Atonement star has revealed that he embarrassed himself in front of the Friends star at a showbiz party. The actor was in his twenties and had only just moved to Los Angeles, so he’d be forgiven for being a little bit star-struck.
He admitted Aniston was a ‘celebrity crush’ of his during an appearance on ‘Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen’. James said: “I did meet her and it wasn’t great … [Not] because she’s not great.”
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James went on: “I was at a party when I was really young. I was like 22 in LA. And I met Lucy Liu and Lucy Liu was really, really nice to me.”
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“She was like, ‘Come meet my friends.’ There was a big circle of her friends and one of them happened to be Jennifer Aniston, and I got parked right beside Jennifer Aniston.”
“And just as [Liu] was like, ‘Hey guys, meet my new friend James’ … instead of saying that, she got pulled aside by a guy she went to high school with and she went away. I was just left standing with all these people going, ‘Hey, what’s up, I’m new in town’.”
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James then turned to Jennifer and said: “So you’re Jennifer Aniston and you’re in ‘Friends’.” He added: “It was rough. But she was lovely.”
It comes after James said he isn’t afraid of failing because of his beloved grandmother. The star spent a lot of time with his grandmother as a child and lived with her for a time after his parents’ divorce.
He believes she taught him how survive the tough side of working in the entertainment industry. Jamestold the Guardian newspaper: “I’m really lucky in a lot of ways, mainly that my granny’s all over me. I’ve definitely got a large dose of what she has …”
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“She doesn’t really give a f*** about what anybody thinks of her. So it liberates her. I’m definitely capable of being embarrassed, but I don’t feel embarrassed about being masculine enough, I don’t feel embarrassed about getting it wrong, or not being clued-up, not knowing something that other people know.”
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