America Ferrera Says Her Traveling Pants Costars FaceTimed Her 'as a Group' After Barbie Oscar Nomination

America Ferrera got a lovely call from her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars after earning her first Oscar nomination on Tuesday.

The actress, already an Emmy winner from her time on Ugly Betty, added Oscar nominee to her accolades when she received recognition in the Best Supporting Actress category for Barbie. Ferrera was among 10 stars who were first-time acting nominees this year.

Ferrera told Variety that her costars from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies — Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel — called her after the big news to celebrate with her.

"They FaceTimed me as a group right away. It’s wonderful to be celebrated and held up by these women who I’ve had the honor of growing up with in the industry," she said, adding of her acknowledgements this award season: "Every moment feels like another unbelievable pinch-me moment."

Ferrera posted a screengrab of the FaceTime on her Instagram account featuring her former castmates' beaming smiles.

Ferrera, 39, worked with Lively, 36, Tamblyn, 40, and Bledel, 42, on 2005's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and its 2008 sequel.

The actress also shared who else congratulated her Tuesday morning, including her husband Ryan Piers Williams and their children, Sebastian and Lucia.

"My publicist got to me first. And then my husband called me from the car as he was driving our kids to school," Ferrera told Variety. "He was screaming and emotional. I heard my kids in the back seat, like, 'What are you screaming about?'"

Ferrera later recreated the moment she discovered she was nominated for Piers Williams, which she posted to Instagram. Ferrera laid in bed and cheered as "Barbie" was named in multiple categories. When the Best Supporting Actress came up, she initially thought she was overlooked because the first name called wasn't hers.

"It went straight to Emily Blunt. And I thought 'Oh man, it's alphabetical so they skipped A,'" the actress explained to her husband. "But it was by last name. So it went Emily, Danielle Brooks and then I went like this [covers mouth with a gasp]. I just sat here quiet and stunned and then my phone started blowing up.

As for her Barbie collaborators, Ferrera told Variety, "We’re all in different countries, so there’s a lot of text messaging going on."

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Barbie, the highest grossing movie of 2023, earned eight nominations in total, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling. Margot Robbie was left out of the Best Actress category, and Greta Gerwig, who landed a nod for writing the film, was excluded from Best Director.

Ferrera told Deadline the morning was bittersweet since Robbie and Gerwig didn't make those categories.

"They’re my girls, and I want to see their incredible, amazing work celebrated," she said. "They made history, they set a new bar. They not only broke box office records, but made something that resonated around the globe, and the impact of what they made is, and will continue to be felt in our culture. I think I join a lot of people in wanting to see them acknowledged for that."