America Ferrera says ‘Barbie’ Oscar snubs were a ‘disappointment’ and Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig were ‘deserving’

America Ferrera spoke about her reaction to being nominated for an Oscar and her “disappointment” in the film academy slights her “Barbie” co-star and director speaking by phone with the “TODAY” show on Wednesday.

Ferrera had sent her children to school with her husband on Tuesday morning when the academy award nominations announced. She was home alone, lying in bed, when the presenters nominated her for best supporting actress.

“When it happened, I gasped and fell silent. And I had no one around me to confirm that what I was hearing was real,” Ferrera he told the “TODAY” show. “Then there was a moment where I was like, What’s happening? Am I imagining this? And then my phone started exploding, so I knew it was real.”

Ferrera received his first congratulatory text message “literally half a second” after his name was announced. She was the actor and Oscar winner. Ariana Debbear. The message was “so sweet and touching,” Ferrera said.

Then came the phone calls from her husband and her publicist screaming with excitement at the news.

“We all had to come together and have a big scream fest, which is all you can really do when you’re nominated for an Oscar for the first time,” Ferrera said.

Ferrera also intervened Margot Robbie‘sand Greta Gerwigis being snubbed for this year’s Academy Awards, calling the lack of recognition a “disappointment.”

“It’s so undeniable what they created, how unprecedented, how unexpected,” Ferrera said. “It was such a brilliant, beautiful, unexpected, world-changing achievement that it also turned out to be a global, cultural and box-office phenomenon. I think most people feel it’s deserved.”

Ryan Gosling, nominated for best supporting actor, also expressed his disappointment in the snub of the two women. There is simply “no Ken without Barbie, and no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie,” she said.

“No recognition would be possible for anyone in the film without their talent, courage and genius,” Gosling wrote in a statement. “To say I’m disappointed they weren’t nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement.”

“Barbie” is nominated in eight categoriesincluding best picture, adapted screenplay, costume design, original song and production design.

The summer blockbuster attracted more than One billion dollars at the box officewhile people of all ages flocked to theaters in pink outfits.