Random Cringeworthy Times Celebrities Didn't Recognize Other Celebrities (12 items)

(#8) Goldie Hawn
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Amy Schumer has made it big in the comedy world, but that doesn’t mean Goldie Hawn took notice right away. In a 2017 appearance on The Today Show, Schumer recounted the pair's awkward first meeting, which came after a shared flight. "I left [Hawn] alone during the flight," she said. "We’d never met. I waited till we got off the plane and then I went up and I harassed her. And I was just like, 'I really want you to play my mom in this movie.' And she was just like, 'Okay, honey.'"

Hawn admitted she felt a little bad about failing to recognize Schumer, but had kind words for her Snatched co-star: "Amy came up and she was just, you know, sweet, you know, and adorable and all of it, and I hadn’t seen [Inside Amy Schumer]."
(#5) Taylor Swift
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In 2016, Britney Spears was interviewed on The Kyle and Jackie O Show, where she was asked if she would rather hang out with Katy Perry or Taylor Swift. Spears opted to hang with Swift, because she'd "never met her."

Oops. The two actually met at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, and even took a picture together.
(#1) Meryl Streep Thought Abigail Breslin Was Crashing A Photo Shoot

Abigail Breslin got her big break when she starred in Little Miss Sunshine, which came out when she was only 9 years old. She became the fifth-youngest actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. Following her work in the indie hit, she continued to add to her acting resume.

Despite her massive success, she baffled her August: Osage County co-stars - including Meryl Streep - when she showed up for official pictures sporting her new hairdo. Apparently they thought she was just a random person crashing a major motion picture photo shoot.
(#12) Rami Malek
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Mr. Robot's Rami Malek revealed that, unlike his character on the show, he's not especially clued in to the ways of modern technology. In 2017, Malek told People and Entertainment Weekly that he danced with an international supermodel but completely failed to recognize her.

"I'm not on social media," he said. "I'm not as in touch with things as I should be. I was dancing in Paris the other night with Bella Hadid and didn’t know who she was."
(#11) Christopher Nolan
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It's unbelievable that anyone could dodge One Direction mania. But director Christopher Nolan somehow managed. Nolan apparently didn't know Harry Styles was a member of the megapopular boy band, or a solo star in his own right, before the director cast him in his World War II epic Dunkirk.

In 2017, Nolan told the Associated Press: "I don’t think I was that aware really of how famous Harry was. I mean, my daughter had talked about him. My kids talked about him, but I wasn’t really that aware of it."
(#6) Phil Collins
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It's hard to imagine anyone is unaware of Adele's impact; she's the award-winning songstress behind record-breaking albums. But Genesis drummer Phil Collins admitted to not knowing who she was.
In 2016, Collins told People, "We met in London maybe three or four years ago, maybe longer, because she wanted to write with me and I was very flattered, but I didn’t know who she was, because I had been living under a rock."