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How many times have we gushed over our favourite celebs? Countless. But what happens when a celeb gushes over another celeb?

In an interview with First Post, Ranbir Kapoor dished that his fan moments with Hollywood bigwigs Quentin Tarantino and Natalie Portman went far from planned, in fact, they were cringe-worthy experiences.

"You know this happens to me a lot. It’s not just Quentin Tarantino. I am star struck. I’ve run behind Natalie Portman at Tribeca. She was on the phone and she was crying. I went quickly behind her and said, 'I love your…' Before I could say 'work', she turned and said, 'Get lost!' So I’ve had my heart broken but I would still chase them," narrated the star.

That's just the tip of the iceberg, during the shoot of his upcoming film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, the star rushed to meet Pulp Fiction director Tarantino only to be ignored by him.

"So with Quentin Tarantino recently, he was promoting The Hateful Eight and we were shooting Ae Dil Hai Mushkil in London. I was shooting in a basement and he was in the building. I heard that he was doing an interview so I went up running. I told Karan, 'Listen, I have to meet him.' Not that I’m going to say that I’m an actor from India. I just wanted to meet him, take a picture, an autograph.

"So I was waiting at the car for like half an hour. I saw him coming and from far I’m saying, 'Quentin, Quentin.' He walks, looks at me, goes and sits in his car. When the door opens, I’m like, 'Sir, picture picture?'and they have it on video. It was really funny and I got teased by the entire crew of ADHM, but just to see Quentin Tarantino," gushed Ranbir.

That has got to hurt.

But Ranbir didn't let that affect him. He said, "This guy really affected my life. His movies — Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction — are instrumental to the work I am doing. Subconsciously I’ve taken so much from those films so it was a big star struck moment. I don’t feel bad about it. I don’t feel like he is such an ass or a rude guy. I understand that it happens because he is in his own world and he is an artist. Artists are supposed to be weird."

Does that make him want to go to Hollywood? Apparently not.

"I was asked to audition as the second lead in Star Wars a couple of years back [but he refused]. I have a fear of auditioning," he said.

Ranbir explained: "Must be [arrogance], but also insecurity that what if I get rejected? It’s more a fear from not having that much faith in my talent. But it doesn’t interest me. What Ayan Mukherjee is making interests me more than Star Wars. Let’s make our own Star Wars. Let’s not chase what’s there. That’s great but I have an opportunity here and I don’t think Ayan is less than a JJ Abrams or a George Lucas. Let me work with him and make our own Star Wars."