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Hollywood star America Ferrera graced The One Show on Thursday evening to discuss her latest project with presenters Alex Jones and Roman Kemp.

She appeared alongside BBC Radio 1's Greg James and actress Jodie Whittaker on the famous sofa to reveal details about her new film The Lost Bus, which is based during 2018's wildfires that devastated a Californian community.

The movie also features Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey as a bus driver who had to steer a vehicle full of children and their teacher (America Ferrera) to safety during the 2018 Camp Fire, which became California's most deadly blaze in history.

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As Roman presented a preview of the movie, he remarked: "It follows the true story of real life heroism and safe to say it's pretty intense."

Following the clip, America explained to audiences: "Paradise Fire was a real life fire, a wildfire, the deadliest fire in California. I was born and raised in southern California around wildfires - we had fire drills and earthquake drills and there were many stories of incredible heroism on that day," reports Wales Online.

She continued to recount the day of the 2018 fires when bus driver Kevin McKay collected 22 schoolchildren whose parents couldn't reach them as the blaze crept ever closer.

"So Kevin McKay instead of rushing to save his own son and his own mother turned around and went in... I'm going to cry!" she exclaimed as her voice cracked during the interview.

After regaining her composure, she went on to say: "And I know what happens. I've seen the movie. And I think it's fair to give a spoiler alert on this one and say all the kids live."

Meanwhile on the programme, Radio 1's Breakfast Show presenter Greg opened up about how his life was rescued as a newborn baby.

Following an emotional segment featuring a man who gave away one of his kidneys, Alex turned to Greg, remarking: "You know about how important being a donor is?"

He responded: "Yeah, I was saved. My life was saved when I was just born by four blood transfusions. My mum had a thing which doesn't really exist now, and you can treat it with drugs, which was rhesus disease.

"It meant that my blood and her blood didn't match up, and she was essentially doing me harm."

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