Last month,Elliotts performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination, his first ever.

But the actor admits that initial meeting was an odd one.

Id never met him before, Elliott tells EW.

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I remember him saying, This is going to sound a little weird, and it fingdidsound weird.

Because it sounded like me!

And hes been listening to my voice in interviews that Id done.

I hadnt seen the script.

I just had the conversation with Bradley and he talked about this brother relationship.

I mean, hes well-educated.

And as it turned out, hes a brilliant filmmaker.

It was 7:30 in the morning and Katharine calls up to me.

She said, Sam?

I said, Yeah?

You got the nomination!

I was like, Oh, cool!

Ive had a few awards come my way, but very few.

I just never really thought about that.

I just always felt lucky to get a job.

So when it came, I thought, What the f, man?