Not everybody will get to fulfill their childhood movie star crush — and even fewer get to slap them. However Nelly Furtado is particular.

The "Eat Your Man" singer opened up about her very unique expertise throughout a go to to the Handsome podcast, the place she shared that her childhood crush was the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch frontman himself, Mark Wahlberg.

"Once I was about 13 or 14, I had a poster of Mark Wahlberg's Calvin Klein advert. I had Marky Mark when he was all in regards to the Calvins," Furtado shared with fun. "He was my first movie star crush, I feel. However there's a greater story to this."

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Furtado defined that years later, after launching her music profession and scoring a Grammy win for a single off her debut album, she was requested to fill a small position within the film adaptation of the online game franchise, Max Payne.

"It's a brief scene however I'm at a wake and my husband has simply died and it's type of Mark Wahlberg's character's fault, so I'm actually indignant at Mark Wahlberg within the scene. I don't keep in mind the character's title," she stated, then paused, realizing, "Was he Max Payne? In any case, I'm within the scene, we're at a fictional wake, there's a number of extras, there are lots of people, I've hardly acted earlier than and I’m feeling the stress."

She continued, "I'm like, 'Mark Wahlberg is about to stroll on set' and never solely do I’ve traces with him, I’ve to slap him within the face.'"

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At this level in her profession, Furtado's movie and TV appearances had been largely restricted to singing or taking part in herself, apart from a short position in CSI: NY, so she was nonetheless studying the do's and don'ts of performing. And that day, she would come to be taught a serious "don't."

"As a result of I'm a novice — I'm a singer, I'm not an actor — I really thought that I may slap him a number of occasions on the face to follow," Furtado admitted. "In order that they're like, 'And, motion!' And I'm like," she mimed a number of slaps, "Whapaw, whapaw! And his face is getting purple and he's so good, he doesn't say 'You don't have to essentially follow the slap.'"

She added, "So I'm there simply slapping Mark Wahlberg. In the meantime my 14-year-old self is like, 'Oh my God!'"

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Injury to Marky Marks' face apart, no less than Furtado's interior teenage lady obtained to relish the second. Nonetheless, all that interior pleasure could have sophisticated her efficiency: Furtado went on to say that she had hassle crying in what was meant to be a critical second for the character, however pretend tears ultimately obtained her via.

"I barely obtained via the scene," she recalled, "However I made it occur."

Representatives for Wahlberg didn’t instantly reply to Leisure Weekly's request for remark.

You may watch Furtado inform the complete story within the podcast episode above.

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