If you’ve seen Justin Bieber’s “What Do You Mean?” music video, you’ve seen the gorgeous face of Xenia Deli.
The 25-year-old model from Moldova sat down with Access Hollywood and dished about her “amazing” experience filming with The Biebs.
“When I came to that audition I actually didn’t know for who we were shooting,” Xenia told Access, adding that landing the job was “amazing. “And after, our producer Brad Furman, came to us and he told us that it was for Justin Bieber. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, no way!'”
The sexy clip (she rocks lingerie and runs her tongue up Biebs’ bare chest) took two days to shoot.
“The second day we didn’t go home, I got to the shoot at 10 AM and I got back home at 10 AM also. Like, we were shooting all night and all morning,” she said.
Part of the video required Justin and his on-screen girlfriend to jump out of a tall building – something a stunt double handled for Xenia.
“I didn’t do the jumping. I got upstairs… I was so nervous and everyone was like telling me downstairs, ‘Jump, jump!’ and I couldn’t do that because I was in heels and it was so hard to jump in heels,” she said.
Justin stepped in to make Xenia feel comfortable.
“Only Justin said ‘No, she is not going to jump because she’s scared,'” she recounted. “He gave me a hug, and that was it.”
The model said she and Justin connected over their shared spirituality.
“What’s amazing about Justin is I felt that he’s a very spiritual person, because we started talking about God and he knows so many things about God. [It was] amazing,” she said. “I have the same connection with God, like if you ask what I love the most in my life, I will tell you the love of my life is God.”
As for the finished product, Xenia was overcome with emotion after watching the complete music video.
“I couldn’t stop crying for maybe 15 minutes, because it was so important to me,” she shared, adding that her family has seen the steamy video as well. “Everyone is proud of me. They know that this is acting. This is my job. This is what I have to do.”
— Erin O’Sullivan
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