The “most outrageous rumor” Alexandra Daddario has heard about herself? That she stinks at her job.

“I’m not a bad actress,” the Mayfair Witches and White Lotus star told Elle in a new interview. “I’ve just done some projects that don’t showcase me in the way that I should be showcased, okay?”

She continued, “[The] director and the writing is everything, and sometimes I’m lit poorly, but I’m not a bad actress. I got an Emmy nomination. How do you think I did that?”

Daddario was nominated for a 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her role in season 1 of The White Lotus. She played the part of Rachel Patton, a journalist on her Maui honeymoon with her new husband, Shane (Jake Lacy), who seems incapable of being content. The prize ultimately went to her costar Jennifer Coolidge, who stole scenes in seasons 1 and 2 as Tanya, a quirky heiress also on vacation at the titular resort.

Daddario also recalled the most humiliating thing she’s ever said to another celebrity in her Elle interview. “A lot of things. I don’t even want to say it,” she replied when asked the question. “I was way new in the business, and I was sitting in the hair and makeup trailer, and I was talking about … making it seem like there was a difference between TV and movie actresses and, like, being a movie actress was better or something.”

The embarrassing moment arrived when she realized someone who knew quite a bit about TV acting was nearby. “Christina Applegate was sitting next to me, and she was like, that’s not true, basically, but I was humiliated, because I was like, ya know, 23 years old [saying] ‘being in a movie is better than being on TV’ to someone who’s, like, part of some of the best television in the world,” said Daddario, who’s now 38. “I still think about it. I’m still embarrassed by it.”

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Applegate, a veteran of shows including Married … With Children, Samantha Who?, and Dead to Me, won an Emmy in 2003 for playing Amy, the sister of Jennifer Aniston‘s Rachel Green, on an episode of Friends, and she has racked up eight nominations total.

“Christina, I didn’t mean it like that,” Daddario said in the video. “It was really embarrassing.”

Watch Daddario defend her acting in the video above.