Actress Rachel Bilson said on Tuesday that Rami Malek reconnected with her weeks after mentioning he previously asked her to take a photo she posted on Instagram of the two teenagers.
“Rami and I have actually been talking since this came out,” the “The OC” actress said on the Lady Gang podcast. “He connected with me, and we’re all good. He was so nice and we’re totally fine now and we’ve talked about it and we’re good.”
She called “The Little Things” gracious “star, adding that she” totally understood where he was coming from and that he understood me. And I was so happy that we were able to squash it and, like, move on. ”
Bilson said last month on the Armchair Expert podcast that in 2019, when Malek was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” she decided to post a throwback photo from when the actors were classmates on a senior trip to Broadway.
Bilson called the “The Little Things” star out of courtesy about the controversy in the photo, adding that she “fully understood where he was coming from and that he understood me. And I was so glad we had it. could overwrite it and, like, move on. ”
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RACHEL BILSON TELLS RAMI MALEK ASKING HIM TO TAKE A TRIGGER IMAGE RENDERED HIS ‘SUPER BUMMED’
She said she posted the old photo two years ago “because it’s funny and I think it’s so important to be able to make fun of yourself” but she said shortly after that it sent him a direct message on Instagram asking him to take it off because he prefers his privacy.
“But it wasn’t like, ‘Hey! How are you?! It was blunt: ‘I would really appreciate it if you took that out. I’m a really private person, “” she said at the time. She added that she started to panic and fear that she had made a mistake after her request.
After the March podcast, the story began to explode in the news.
The 39-year-old actress said she was “mortified” after a friend sent her a link to a CNN story about the spontaneous remark she made on the podcast and had a ” panic attack “because of the reports, some of which seemed to imply that Malek had been rude to her when he” made “her take her away.
She told Lady Gang that she meant it was a “laid back,” “funny” story on the podcast, but then felt like it might explode and be misinterpreted.
“Rachel Bilson was ‘super disappointed’ that Rami Malek made her take a photo of the two on Instagram,” the CNN story said at the time.
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She said at the end that it was a good thing because they were able to reconnect and “do better and everything is fine”.
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