America Ferrera Reveals Her Guilty Pleasure Is ‘Not Showering For a Few Days’
usmagazine.comBarbie’s America Ferrera recently revealed something that brings her joy — and it definitely threw fans for a loop.“My guilty pleasure would be … I’m going to really regret saying this … It’s not showering for a few days,” Ferrera, 39, shared in a Vanity Fair interview on Wednesday, July 19, which featured Barbie costars Margot Robbie, Kate McKinnon and Issa Rae along with director Greta Gerwig.Before admitting her secret indulgence, the cast had some other guesses as to what it might be.
Gerwig, 39, said, “Oh, I bet a massage or something?” while Rae, 38, asked it if was “being away from her children.” “Not showering,” however, came as a shock. “I would never have expected that,” Robbie quipped.Ferrera — who stars in the upcoming summer blockbuster as a real-world Mattel worker Gloria — recently revealed that she’s grateful to play a human and not a doll in the Barbie movie.“I didn’t want to be one of the Barbies, that wouldn’t have been as compelling to me,” she explained in a Tuesday, July 18, interview with Digital Spy. “To me, the message of this movie is that there is no one standard of beauty, there’s no right way to be beautiful, one right way to smart, one right way to be even Barbie.
We can embrace ourselves uniquely and celebrate that.”The Ugly Betty actress also revealed how she landed the role of Gloria in the highly-anticipated film.“It was kind of a miracle.
Things like this have rarely, if ever, happened in my career, where you just get a phone call from some fabulous director who says, ‘I have a part and I want you to play it,’” Ferrera gushed to the Los Angeles Times in a Thursday, July 20, interview. “Exploring it through Gloria’s eyes just felt like a magical gift that we never get in our culture —
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