Paul Giamatti has discovered himself in a hilarious sport of cellphone tag with none aside from Cher.
The Goddess of Pop has purportedly spent years attempting to come up with Giamatti, who mentioned Wednesday on “The Howard Stern Show” that he has “no fucking idea” why. The Oscar-nominated “Holdovers” (2023) star in the end has but to search out out — however not for lack of attempting.
“Every now and then, I get a message from somebody that says Cher … really needs to talk to me, like it’s important, like it’s crucial that she talks to me,” Giamatti instructed Stern. “And I’m like, ‘What the fuck? Why does Cher want to talk to me?’ Nobody will tell me.”
“And then I never hear anything,” he added, “and a year will go by, and it happens again.”
While most would transfer heaven and earth to speak to Cher, Stern reminded his visitor of new cellphone scams involving synthetic intelligence that may simply idiot folks lately. Giamatti mentioned he lastly managed to succeed in Cher through voicemail. However, in a cycle that by no means ends.
“Eventually somebody … did get in touch with her, and she did call me and leave a message on my phone,” he instructed Stern earlier than imitating the singer’s baritone voice. “All she said was, ‘I hear you want to talk to me.’ That was it. That was all she said.”
He claimed this sport of cellphone tag continued, as Giamatti mentioned Wednesday that he returned Cher’s message with one in every of his personal: “I left her a message and said, ‘That’s great, I’d love to talk to you, but I thought you wanted to talk to me.’ And that’s the last I heard.”
The actor defined, “I haven’t heard anything again.”
It’s definitely not unusual for celebrities to succeed in out and befriend one another. Giamatti and Cher are fellow actors, in any case, with the previous not too long ago receiving his second Oscar nod and Cher having gained an Academy Award for “Moonstruck” in 1988.
Giamatti mentioned he was honored but additionally genuinely baffled as to why the singer was attempting to succeed in him.
“I don’t know what she could possibly want to talk to me about,” he instructed Stern. “And it’s killing me, I’m dying to know what she wants to talk to me about. I mean, it would be great! I’d love to talk to her about anything. I don’t care, it’d be fantastic.”
Whether the 2 will ever really communicate — or what comes of it — stays to be seen.
