Lily Collins shares story about swimming with whales on The Late Late Show With James Corden

Lily Collins revealed that she bravely went swimming in the ocean with whales during an appearance on Tuesday on The Late Late Show With James Corden

The 29-year-old English actress said she had been planning to watch her husband Charlie McDowell, 38, in a boat while he surfed when two whales suddenly breached the surface.

'And as he was surfing, two whales breached, a mom and a baby, and they started flipping next to me,' said Lily, wearing over the knee black boots with a gold and black mini dress. 'And the captain of the little ship I was on said 'Do you want to swim with them?'

Whale swimming: Lily Collins revealed that she bravely went swimming in the ocean with whales during an appearance on Tuesday on The Late Late Show With James Corden

Lily said the whales were about as close as Corden's cameras and that she initially told the captain 'no' but then decided 'you know what, why not.'

'I said, ''I'll do it'',' Lily said. 'Mind you I'm just in a bathing suit that I'm meant to be sunbathing in.'

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She said one of the boat crew jumped in the water with her, but then the whales swam off and she thought that it just wasn't meant to be. The crew member said they would find them and they got back into the boatt and trailed them and then jumped back in the water.

Lily said she thought they lost them again but then she looked down and saw this small thing coming toward her.

Surfer husband: The 29-year-old English actress said she had been planning to watch her husband Charlie McDowell, 38, in a boat while he surfed when two whales suddenly breached the surface

'As it gets closer it becomes a whale and it's a mother and its baby,' said Lily. She said the whales turned and that 'the baby pivots and stares at me for 30 seconds.'

She said that when it happened she 'felt a sense of calm that I've never ever felt in my life.' She said that you would think that an encounter like that would be terrifying but that it was actually the most calming experience.

'It was wild,' said Lily.

Wild stuff: 'It was wild,' said Lily of the experience

Corden, 43, told her that he was 'so jealous.'

Lily also told Corden that she spent New Years in New York with her husband, her father Phil Collins, along with other members of her family walking the streets of New York and also playing Trivial Pursuit.

She said that when they were walking around NYC they saw an Emily In Paris poster that had been 'vilely defaced.' Corden showed the photo of Emily standing in front of the defaced poster where her eyes and nose had been painted red.

Defaced poster: Corden showed the photo of Emily standing in front of the defaced poster where her eyes and nose had been painted red

'I was given a whole new makeup job,' the 38-year-old actress joked. 'Why not embrace it.'

Corden asked her about shooting Emily In Paris and wanted to know about the Parisians' reactions to the show. She said that after season one she heard that the French didn't want to embrace the show but that when she started shooting season two that she saw that 'it could not have been more opposite.'

She said because of all the COVID regulations and shutdown that she and her co-star Ashley Park, 30, felt as if they were the only other Americans in France. She said when they went out that they stuck out like a sore thumb and that all these people would come over and talk to them about the show. She said they treated them like they were their characters.

Good question: Corden asked her about shooting Emily In Paris and wanted to know about the Parisians' reactions to the show

Corden then showed a photo of Lily as a toddler between her father and her mother Jill Tavelman appearing to hand Princess Diana a bouquet of flowers. He asked her if she remembered what was going on when the photograph was taken.

'I'm giving Diana flowers, but the second she went to take them I then tried to pull them back,' said Lily of what she was told happened. She joked that it sucked all the air out of the room, but because she was wearing a cute dress who could punish her.

Lily also shared that it was not her only royal encounter.

Royal meeting: 'I'm giving Diana flowers, but the second she went to take them I then tried to pull them back,' said Lily of what she was told happened

'I was also told that when I was younger, I was playing with some toys with Prince Charles and I proceeded to kind of throw something at him like throw a toy telephone at his head,' she said.

Corden asked her how old she was at the time and she said 'two-ish.'

'Were you just hanging out with the Royal Family all the time?' he asked.

She told him that her father did a lot of things for the Prince's Trust and she grew up in England. Lily said she just went along for the ride and that she guessed she had a tendency to do 'naughty things as a two-year-old.'

Famous father: Lily said she just went along for the ride and that she guessed she had a tendency to do 'naughty things as a two-year-old'

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