Nelly Furtado recalls embarassing moment with Mark Wahlberg

Nelly Furtado not only met her childhood crush and worked with him, but also slapped him! And it was none other than Mark Wahlberg.

After Furtado had put out her debut album and won a Grammy, she was offered a small role in the video game inspired movie Max Payne, in which Mark played the titular cop.

The Maneater hitmaker said: “When I was about 13 or 14, I had a poster of Mark Wahlberg’s Calvin Klein ad. I had Marky Mark when he was all about the Calvins. He was my first celebrity crush, I think. But there’s a better story to this.”

She continued: “It’s a short scene but I’m at a wake and my husband has just died and it’s kind of Mark Wahlberg’s character’s fault, so I’m really angry at Mark Wahlberg in the scene. I don’t remember the character’s name,” the Say It Right singer then paused and realized: “Was he Max Payne? Anyways, I’m in the scene, we’re at a fictional wake, there’s a lot of extras, there are a lot of people, I’ve hardly acted before and I am feeling the pressure.”

She recalled getting nervous in anticipation of their scene together: “I’m like, ‘Mark Wahlberg is about to walk on set’ and not only do I have lines with him, I have to slap him in the face.'”

That day, Furtado learnt a big lesson in acting: When slapping someone, it’s best to limit the number of takes.

She recalled with embarrassment: “Because I’m a novice — I’m a singer, I’m not an actor — I actually thought that I could slap him several times on the face to practice. So they’re like, ‘And, action!’ And I’m like.”

Nelly Furtado added: “Whapaw, whapaw! And his face is getting red and he’s so nice, he doesn’t say ‘You don’t have to really practice the slap.’ So I’m there just slapping Mark Wahlberg. Meanwhile my 14-year-old self is like, ‘Oh my God!'”