In a funny and surprising turn of events, Actor-activist Jameela Jamil turned down an invitation to party with Leonardo DiCaprio, so she could smuggle a plate of steaks out of an A-list party.
During Wednesday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the 33-year-old shared the story of her first Hollywood event where she had to turn down the opportunity to party with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Jameela explained that she doesn’t go to any award ceremony or any party for longer than about 20 or 30 minutes, because of her first Hollywood bash. It was maybe three years ago when she had just shot ‘The Good Place’, but no one really knew who she was.
Picture: Instagram | Jameela Jamil
She further said that she got invited to this giant Oscars party full of absolute A-list stars. There was Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Edward Norton, “it was insane,” in her words. But she was awkward at the party as she didn’t know anyone and was making her way around the party, trying to strike a conversation with the Hollywood A-Listers, who were looking at her like she was an over-confident cleaner, she joked.
Continuing her story, she said that since no one wanted to talk to her, she went to the buffet section, and opted to sit and eat instead of stressing over the party guests who weren’t bothered about her presence.
“The food is incredible at these things, and no one eats the food! None of them eat the goddamn food. So, I had a bite of steak, it was incredible and I was like, ‘No one else is eating this, I should take some of this home with me,'” Jameela shared.
But her tale doesn’t end here, in fact, it gets funnier from this point on. The actress loved the food much that she took a plate and piled a steak on, and thinking to take more, she continued to add 10 more of those onto a plate. But to her bad luck, she encountered Gwyneth Paltrow on her way.
And Paltrow turned around and looked at her, and “I was like, ‘Atkins.’ And she was like, ‘Cool.’”
To get away from the situation, Jameela tried to act creatively as she grabbed a cloth napkin to put it over the plate, and flipped the plate to bundle up all the steaks, but they started bleeding.
And now to the embarrassing and funniest part of her adventure, her blood-soaked napkin gave an impression of Jameela holding something dead which panicked her, so she stuck the napkin between her thighs, where she loves to keep her food, she joked.
She waddled through the room to get out of the place when she bumped into Hollywood legend, Al Pacino, and to her dismay, knocked him over, twice. But even then, food was her priority, many of us can relate, she grabbed the steaks and ran away and that’s when Leonardo DiCaprio came in the story.
Finishing her story, she narrated that after her mishap with Al Pacino she ran into Muse’s Matt Bellamy. Matt and Jameela know each other from England. He stopped her and informed that he was about to go to a party that Leonardo is hosting in a hotel room, and asked her if she would want to join.
She said that she wanted to go, well, who wouldn’t! but she quickly changed her mind as that she has been through so much to get these steaks. Reluctantly, with tears in her eyes, declining the offer, she told him that she just wants to go home. And so, she took those bleeding steaks home and ate them by herself.
Well, that is some story which you don’t get to hear always.