Nelly Furtado met her childhood hero, however the dream was a nightmare! Throughout her look on the Good-looking podcast, the Eat Your Man singer shared the embarrassing story of her first assembly together with her childhood crush, Mark Wahlberg.
“Once I was about 13 or 14, I had a poster of Mark Wahlberg’s Calvin Klein advert. I had Marky Mark when he was all in regards to the Calvins,” she shared with amusing. “He was my first superstar crush,” she added.
After launching her music profession and incomes a Grammy for her debut album Whoa, Nelly! She was requested to make a cameo within the movie adaptation of the online game franchise Max Payne and acquired the chance to satisfy the actor.
Talking of the scene she needed to movie, Nelly revealed that her character needed to be offended on the Ted actor’s character as a result of he was liable for her husband’s loss of life. “I am within the scene, we’re at a fictional wake, there’s plenty of extras, there are lots of people, I’ve hardly acted earlier than, and I’m feeling the stress,” she recalled.
Additional contextualizing the scene, Nelly revealed that Wahlberg was speculated to stroll into the body, and she or he was speculated to slap him within the face. At that time in her profession, the Say It Proper singer had made small appearances in movies and TV reveals, however that they had all the time been associated to singing. Therefore, she was clueless in regards to the dos and don’ts of performing.
“As a result of I am a novice — I am a singer, I am not an actor — I truly thought that I may slap him a number of instances on the face to follow,” she stated. So when the director yelled motion, she slapped the actor on the face with full impression a number of instances.
“Whapaw, whapaw! And his face is getting pink,” she recalled, including that Wahlberg was so good that he did not interrupt her or let her know she did not must slap him. “So I am there simply slapping Mark Wahlberg. In the meantime, my 14-year-old self is like, ‘Oh my God!'” Nelly added. She recalled “barely” getting by the scene however by some means made it occur.