At the tender age of nine, Jacob Tremblay has already won a Critic’s Choice Award. But it was his spunk on the Ellen DeGeneres Show that proved he is a total star.
The young Canadian actor, who features in the Oscar-nominated drama Room, told Ellen all about how he managed to skip the queue and score this magnificent selfie with Leonardo DiCaprio at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
This just happened!!! I finally met #leonardodicaprio #sagawards
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“It’s kind of a funny story because everyone was standing up to cheer for someone… and I noticed Leonardo DiCaprio right in the chair behind us,” he explained.
“So then I just walked straight up to him and I noticed a huge line of people trying to meet him, but I was just like, ‘Oh, I’m a kid, I can skip it’.
“So I skipped it and I said hi. And then I said good luck to him, and he then he said good luck to me.
“And he won, right? But I didn’t win. So if you want to win, you just have to come up to me.”
That’s some good logic there.
Similarly, when asked what his favourite subject at school was, he responded: “I like recess.”
Tremblay also spoke about the attention his father – a police detective dubbed ‘hot dad’ on social media after accompanying his son to the Golden Globes – was getting.
Watch the adorable interview here (post continues after video):
And he has already put the biggest names in the business on notice, telling Ellen: “But I don’t think I should tell you (my ideas) because I don’t want some Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, J.J. Abrams to come and make millions of dollars off of my ideas.”
Guys, you have been warned.
*Featured image via Getty Images.
Top Comments
Not sure if I'll see the film, but I found the book so interesting. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, but I really enjoyed it.
Yeah, I'm not sure about the movie either. My husband said it was "harrowing" which usually means he's not recommending I see it! Apparently Jacob is incredible in it and is a very natural actor.
I was worried about the book, I thought it might be too horrible to read (somehow reading those things are worse for me than watching them on a screen), but they weren't bad at all. I think the movie might be easier having read the book, I know what's going to happen. I was wondering how well it translates, as the book is written from the boy's point of view, and most of it is just what's going on in his head - his thoughts etc. I'm not sure how well it works on screen. Might be one to wait until it comes on DVD.