Sometimes our high school friendships don’t stand the test of time.
That’s whatRachel Bilsondiscovered whenshe shared a throwback photo of herand former classmateRami Malektwo years ago.
Robotstar messaged Bilson asking her to take down the photo, and she obliged.
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TheOCalum recounted the mixup whilesitting down for the latest episode Dax Shepard’s podcast,Armchair Expert.
“Rami was a good friend of mine,” Bilson said.
“We were the same crew.
We didThe Crucibletogether senior year.
We were the leads in it together, all these things.
We kind of kept in contact a little bit.”
“I had posted a throwback of us from our senior trip to New York, Broadway.
We were super-nerdy, just the dorkiest picture of both of us,” she recalled.
So I’m just being funny, we were good friends."
“She was like, ‘Well, it’s not a great picture of him.’
Okay, I’m sorry.
We were 16!”
“It was what it was.
He’s about to be nominated.'
And I’m like, ‘What do you mean?
This was my friend; it’s a funny picture.'”
Still, Bilson honored Malek’s wishes and took the photo down, even writing him back to apologize.
“I wrote to him a really nice message, like, ‘I’m so sorry.
Go get the Oscar, you’re doing amazing.’
And I never hear anything back,” she said.
But look, he wants to be super-respected, it’s his thing, so I respected it.
I took it down.
I was just a little bummed at how it was handled."
A week later, Bilson checked her Instagram DMs and was surprised to find a message there from Malek.
“But it wasn’t like, ‘Hey!
How are you?’
“I was like, ‘Oh s—, okay.’
I get like really hot, I like start sweating, and I get all nervous.”
Malek’s reps did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
