Just moments after landing her first Oscar nomination on Tuesday, America Ferrera celebrated on FaceTime with her The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-stars.
The 39-year-old actress shared a video on Instagram in which she “reenacted” her first reaction to her Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Barbie.
She also shared a screenshot of a FaceTime call with her The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-stars – Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn.
Ferrera also explained this in an interview with Variety that her co-stars were among the first to congratulate her, after her husband Ryan Piers Williams and her publicist.
Ferrera’s Instagram post begins with a “reenactment” of her reaction to the nomination since her husband Williams took their children to school.
Just moments after earning her first Oscar nomination on Tuesday, America Ferrera celebrated on FaceTime with her The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-stars
Just moments after earning her first Oscar nomination on Tuesday, America Ferrera celebrated on FaceTime with her The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-stars
Ferrera also explained in an interview with Variety that her co-stars were among the first to congratulate her, after her husband Ryan Piers Williams and her publicist.
‘Reenactment for @ryanpierswilliams from when I got the news that I was nominated for an Academy Award!!!!!! He took the kids to school, so I was home alone, but he insisted I do it again,” Ferrera explained.
“And then there was a lot of yelling with some of my sisters on FaceTime. I’m still processing. Needless to say: wow! What a thing! Childhood dream realized. ���� Thank you @theacademy @barbiethemovie and the queens Greta and Margot, who we all know deserve everything for what they have given to the world!’ she said.
In the first video, Williams was filming and asking his wife for a reenactment as she explained from bed that she wanted to “lie down for this bad news.”
She explained that she was scrolling through her phone, adding that she “hit play and said ‘Yay Barbie!’
“And then it was like, ‘Best Supporting Actress’ and it went straight to Emily Blunt and I was like, ‘Oh man, it’s alphabetical, so they skipped A… but it was by last name,’” Ferrera realized.
“It went Emily and then Danielle (Brooks) and then I went like this,” she said, covering her mouth, stunned by the nomination, as Williams laughed.
‘Then I was just sitting here quietly and then my phone started blowing up. I can not believe it. It’s insane,” as Williams added, “Aww, I’m so proud of you, baby.”
Ferrera insisted she “hasn’t even processed it yet” before sharing another video of her FaceTiming with friends Erin Cahir Leafe, Tamara Hamdan and Pat Stango.
‘Reenactment for @ryanpierswilliams from when I got the news that I was nominated for an Academy Award!!!!!! He took the kids to school, so I was home alone, but he insisted on doing it again,” Ferrera explained.
“And then it was like Best Supporting Actress and it went straight to Emily Blunt and I was like, ‘Oh man, it’s alphabetical, so they skipped A… but it was by last name,’” Ferrera realized.
Stunned: “It went Emily and then Danielle (Brooks) and then I went like this,” she said, covering her mouth, stunned by the nomination, as Williams laughed
One said, “I screamed so loud everyone in Park Slope knows,” referring to the Brooklyn neighborhood.
She then shared a screenshot of Lively, Bledel and Tamblyn happily reacting to the news.
She also shared a screenshot with her agent Alexandra Trustman, and publicists Mariko Kawachi and Brianna Lynn Smith, and another with Eva Longoria and This Is Humanity co-founder Elsa Marie Collins.
The final image was of Hamdan and Leafe, the latter of whom wiped away tears in the shot.
She also told Variety about the moment that made her an Oscar-nominated actress: “There was a moment where I wasn’t sure if I had made it up. And then my phone started blowing up, so I thought I heard right.”
“I still haven’t really been able to suppress my feelings because I’m still in the upper layer of ‘I can’t even believe this is real,'” she added.
The actress added that she first heard from her publicist and then that Williams, and her husband added, “was screaming and emotional.” And I just heard my kids in the back, so confused. “What are you yelling about?”
The next group she heard from were her Traveling Pants colleagues Lively, Bledel and Tamblyn, of whom Ferrera said, “I was immediately FaceTimed as a group.”
One said, “I screamed so loud everyone in Park Slope knows,” referring to the Brooklyn neighborhood
She also shared a screenshot of her agent Alexandra Trustman and publicists Mariko Kawachi and Brianna Lynn Smith
She shared another photo with Eva Longoria and This Is Humanity co-founder Elsa Marie Collins
“It was hilarious, funny and emotional and it’s great to be celebrated and supported by my sisters,” she said of her co-stars and friends.
“These women who I have had the honor of growing up in this industry with and being loved, encouraged and supported by. What we all do for each other. They are amazing, and such a gift in my life,” she said.
Barbie earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach), although many – including Ferrera – were upset that Margot Robbie was not nominated for Best Actress . and Gerwig was not considered for Best Director.
“I was incredibly disappointed that they weren’t nominated,” Ferrera revealed.