“Hollywood legend Al Pacino was reportedly left on the ground by an embarrassed British actress after she knocked him over (Picture: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) Jameela Jamil has confessed she once ‘knocked over’ Al Pacino as she was smuggling food out of a Hollywood party. The Good Place and Netflix star revealed she accidentally floored”, — write: metro.co.uk
Hollywood legend Al Pacino was reportedly left on the ground by an embarrassed British actress after she knocked him over (Picture: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) Jameela Jamil has confessed she once ‘knocked over’ Al Pacino as she was smuggling food out of a Hollywood party.
The Good Place and Netflix star revealed she accidentally floored the veteran actor, then roughly 75, during a bash thrown by the head of the United Talent Agency.
She admitted she was attempting to leave the party with 10 wagyu steaks hidden under her skirt (relatable) when she accidentally bumped into Pacino – and then fled without helping him up.
She told the Guardian newspaper: ‘I knocked over Al Pacino at a party. It was at the head of UTA’s house back in maybe 2015. I’d stolen a bunch of food – they had really good wagyu steaks, so I took 10 wrapped in a cloth napkin, they were kind of bleeding.’
Explaining that she ‘bundled them in between my legs, underneath my miniskirt’, the 39-year-old body positivity campaigner continued: ‘[I] was shuffling as fast as I could out of the party when I knocked over Al Pacino.
‘And then I left him on the ground, because the steaks flew out from under my skirt, leaving this bloody streak across the white floor. I grabbed the steaks and ran out of the party.’
Jameela Jamil has revealed the encounter happened at a swanky LA party in 2015, hen she was trying to leave with 10 steaks under her skirt (Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images) 
Pacino (L) is considered one of the most respected cinema actors of all time (pictured with Robert De Niro in 1995’s Heat) (Picture: Warner Bros/Everett/Rex/Shutterstock) However, the take doesn’t finish there as the actress and podcaster decided to finish off her evening by sending a text message to director Judd Apatow in a bid to cover her tracks.
She added: ‘[I] texted Judd Apatow: “Sorry, I had to leave. I hope they catch that guy that knocked over Al Pacino”.’
It comes after Jameela admitted she had just $17 left in her bank account when she was cast in her breakthrough role on The Good Place.
The former presenter, who played Tahani Al-Jamil in Mike Schur’s beloved sitcom about the afterlife, revealed she ‘ran out of money’ after leaving the BBC Radio 1 Chart Show in 2015 and deciding she ‘wanted to be a writer and a DJ’.
Jamil tried to cover her tracks with a text she sent afterwards (Picture: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM) 
The British star headed to LA in 2016 with plans to be a writer, but ended up acting after bagging a role in The Good Place when she had just $17 to her name (Picture: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) She joined her musician boyfriend James Blake on tour for most of the next year, but soon found herself struggling.
Appearing on David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, she recalled: ‘I ran out of money and so I said, “Please can I have a job, any job, I will do anything”.’
‘I was so desperate for money at that point. I had $17 (£12.82) left in my bank account. I was real keen,’ she continued. ‘But instead I was handed a bunch of auditions.’
Among those opportunities was a Las Vegas magic show, and what became her role in The Good Place.
Pacino, now 84, at the Oscars in 2024. He has been nominated for nine Academy Awards and won one (Picture: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images) However, she had ‘never acted before’ – and not even taken an acting lesson – and was still focused on being a writer, with one of her scripts landing her representation from an agency who suggested she audition for the show.
She added: ‘They were the ones who said, “We want you to go to this audition for Mike Schur. You’ll have more power as a writer if you have a name for yourself, or you can just meet him and maybe he’ll put you in the writer’s room…”
‘So I went to the audition, just very much so not thinking anything was going to come of it. I got both the magic show and Mike Schur, and I had to make a choice. You weren’t allowed to do both.’
Despite opting for The Good Place, after being pushed towards it, she still revealed she tried to talk Schur, who also co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, out of hiring her.
She has gone on to act in Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law TV series, Poker Face and take voice roles in the likes of DuckTales and Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous.
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