Small World.
I've been fortunate enough to have several hundred A to D celebrity encounters from 'seeing' to 'meeting' in my 20 years living in Los Angeles. Most were on working sets and I couldn't and wouldn't take pics, but that's how it is. You just enjoy the moment and create
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About 5 years ago in North Hollywood, on a sunny Friday afternoon I ended up killing some time with my co worker talking about 80s movies. We were talking about everything and somehow ended up with Howard the Duck... then it led to a 20 minute conversation about actress
career and so on. Yes, she was one of my few childhood crushes too, but this conversation about her was rather lengthy.
I left work that afternoon and went straight home to my cozy, yet over priced NoHo apartment and faded out. Never came into contact with another human being other than my gf. Waking up the next morning, I eventually headed down to my
and got in line behind... Leah Thompson.
I didn't really know it was her until I heard her talk to her daughter about finding a seat and I heard that voice... The daughter, actress
was grabbing napkins when I ordered and heard them say 'the regular?' to me and she was like, "Oh a regularrrrrrr here?!" with a smile and I said some shit back, it was fun. I was impressed with how outspoken she was... I like 'em bold and feisty. Some guy sitting on a stool next to me made eye contact w me and had her on his phone and I just nodded... as in to 'confirm', we just grinned.
Anyways, it was 'low key' Leah and her two daughters and some Indian kid from Disney sitting around eating Tacos. I grabbed my goods and I was gone.
How were my friend and I so randomly talking about Leah like that hours earlier? I see celebs at this place all the time, but WTF? What kinda timing is this? Weird.
I've met her before so I didnt 'bum rush' her...