Uma Thurman will take on an action scene any day, but when it comes to eating on camera, that’s a different story.
The Oscar-nominated actress made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Tuesday night and said she realized after taking a DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) that she has anxiety when eating in front of other people.
“Do you know that eating in front of strangers is one of the questions on the DSM?” Thurman asks host Jimmy Fallon. “Do you know what the DSM is? It’s like one of these check things that psychiatrists do to find out what your neuroses are.”
After clarifying that she was determined to be “just fine” after filling out the DSM, the Kill Bill star noted that she gets especially nervous when eating while acting in a scene.
“First of all, you have to do lots of takes,” she explained. “Second of all, you don’t pick what’s on the menu, and you have to speak sometimes and swallow, and then you start to worry about choking because you don’t want to be chewing when you say that line.”
Fallon then made an observation, quipping, “Brad Pitt is always eating in every one of his scenes. He’s eating an apple, he’s eating an onion. He doesn’t care what it is, he’s just eating something.”
While Thurman has accomplished quite a bit as a critically acclaimed actress, the Pulp Fiction star said she has at least one more thing she wants to achieve in her career.
“A good eating scene should be on my bucket list of stuff I haven’t nailed,” The Old Guard 2 actress said. “It’s like skinny-dipping or something, like one of those things you know that you haven’t done.”
