Who is Eleanor Barnes? Rebecca Ferguson’s flirty encounter with interviewer goes viral

2026 Comic-Con International: San Diego - Apple TV Press Line - Source: Getty
Rebecca Ferguson - 2026 Comic-Con International: San Diego - Apple TV Press Line - Source: Getty

Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson had a fun and flirty encounter with interviewer Eleanor Barnes on the red carpet of the San Diego Comic-Con. Barnes, 29, who also goes by Snitchery on social media, is a cosplayer and makeup artist. She asked the Mission Impossible star:

“You can only bring one luxury into the silo. Anything you want. What are you bringing?”

Silo refers to Rebecca Ferguson’s Apple TV+ series, which is currently in its fourth season. In fact, the actress attended a panel at Comic-Con.

Rebecca Ferguson, 42, jokingly replied to her interviewer, “You free?” When Eleanor appeared to fumble, the Dune star added:

“I’m joking… You free? Do you wanna come? Do you wanna come?”

The clip showed Barnes saying, “Come on, don’t do this to me right now” realizing the moment had passed.

Meanwhile, Rebecca Ferguson finally answered the question that she would bring something that would “keep me entertained for a very long time” and then referred to her Silo co-star Tim Robbins. The influencer mentioned feeling like she was “dumped right now,” with Rebecca Ferguson saying, “You were, but that’s fine.”

The exchange was shared by Eleanor Barnes on her Instagram with the in-picture text, “Did I just fumble Rebecca Ferguson?” and showed her collapsing on the floor in a comical manner, as Total Eclipse of the Heart played in the background.

She later added in the caption:

“If you need me???? I’m idk idk idk????? on the floor somewhere??????????”

More about Eleanor Barnes amid her viral interaction with Rebecca Ferguson

Eleanor Barnes was born to a Caucasian mother and an African-American father in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in September 1996. She grew up in the suburbs of North Virginia and attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, studying Media Studies and Art History.

While she found her love for makeup “maybe a little too early” in middle school, it wasn’t until college that she realized she could use social media to learn more about makeup and use MySpace for connections, while making pocket money working part-time at Michael’s.

During a March 2020 exclusive interview with Trueself.com, Snitchery shared her epiphany back in the day:

“Okay, if I want to make friends in college…this is the way to do it—I’m going to do the social media route. Because I didn’t grow up with social media, I didn’t know being an influencer was a thing; I didn’t know [this] job existed. I kind of thought people on Instagram who had a lot of followers were just really popular. I didn’t realize they were actually making money.”

Barnes joined Instagram in mid-2014 and has since become a lifestyle, beauty, and cosplaying influencer with over 1.5 million followers.

“Just here to make the world a little weirder,” her IG bio reads.

The artist is famous for her pictures wearing colorful wigs and makeup, mostly from Anastasia Soare’s cosmetics line. She also has a YouTube channel, where she posts similar content, and offers makeup and fashion tutorials. Her looks are often inspired by Disney, Studio Ghibli, and other anime characters.

The self-proclaimed “nerd at heart” called cosplay a “natural progression” for her online career. Her favourite look is from HunterxHunter and she swears by the quotes, “Friendship is important” and “Don’t underestimate yourself.” Snitchery explained:

“I kind of treat [anime] as modern-day fairy tales, in a way.”

Today, she is also an entrepreneur and activist. She has her own line of hoodies, beanies, sweatpants, and hats. Elsewhere, she advocates against the use of blackface and shares her experience of growing up mixed in a White neighborhood.

“It was weird. I was always the token Black girl… I was obviously read as Black for 18 years and [realized in college] for the first time I was going to be read as completely white,” she stated.

Eleanor shared finding her tribe in college and explained:

“For the first time, I felt I was having the culturally Black experience just because I hadn’t had the opportunity to have Black friends before… I was approaching these issues [racism and hate crimes] as a Black woman because that’s how other people saw me, and that’s how I saw myself.”

Snitchery further mentioned:

“I never want to take more up space than I feel is appropriate and I never want to talk over people, but there is a lack of biracial stories in the media… I own up to every way that I move through life so privileged in a lot of ways to be read as racially ambiguous and white, but that doesn’t change the fact that I wasn’t read that way for 18 years.”

Speaking about her career, Eleanor Barnes noted:

“I think it’s silly to think one particular makeup style can be universally flattering on everybody. And we’ve gotten to a point in Western make-up where only really one style is being presented to us… I’m never going to knock anyone’s makeup style, but I just realized wearing that much makeup [daily] was not for me… A lot of big holes in the makeup industry that product is not necessarily filling, and I’m going to be the one to do it!”

As for Rebecca Ferguson, she was seen in three films this year, including Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, Mercy, and The Magic Faraway Tree. Her next project, Dune: Part Three, is in post-production. Meanwhile, her standout role as protagonist Juliette Nichols on Silo, of which Rebecca Ferguson is also an executive producer, is in its final season.

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Edited by Pallavi K