Yikes , James .
James McAvoy’s cautionary tale of why you should never meet your celebrity crush is absolutely awkward and downright funny.
On a recentWatch What Happens Liveepisode, theSpeak No Evilstar revealed that he had a major crush on everybody’s ’90s TV crush with sun-kissed hair and honey highlights.
I’m talking aboutRachel GreenfromFriends —Jennifer Aniston.
James explained the first time he actually met his celebrity crush was at a Hollywood party years ago, and how it resulted in an epic fail.
“I did meet her, and it wasn’t great,” James told hostAndy Cohen.
“I was at a party when I was really young, I was like 22 in LA, and I metLucy Liu. And Lucy Liu was really, really nice to me and she was like, ‘Come meet my friends.'”
We need to address a few things here.Ally McBeal’s Lucy from the ’90s is definitely another TV celebrity crush. Second, if James were 22 at this party, Jennifer would be around 33 years old.
The year would be around 2001, so this is what Jennifer would look like:
Ok, back to the story: Lucy led James to a circle of her friends, including his crush, Jennifer, and that’s when he dropped the ball.
“I got parked right beside Jennifer Aniston,” James remembered. “And just as [Lucy] 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. She went away, and I was just left standing with all these people going, ‘Hey, what’s up? I’m new in town.'”
While that interaction may seem adorable now, we all know how awkward it feels to be standing in a random group of people you just met at a party, overanalyzing if you’re being a complete dork.
Unfortunately, James made the situation even more awkward when he turned to his — and pretty much everyone’s — celebrity crush and blurted out, “So you’re Jennifer Aniston, and you’re inFriends.”
Poor James definitely didn’t knock that one out of the park. “It was rough,” he admitted. “But she was lovely.”
In all fairness, if I ever met my crush at a party with a group of random people, I would turn to him and say, “So you’reJames McAvoy, and you’re Mr. Tumnus inChronicles of Narnia.”
