Eiza González says she was fired from ‘Sesame Street’ at age 5 for being ‘a complete menace’

Guess Big Bird didn’t like that!

Eiza González is recalling the time she got fired from Sesame Street — when she was 5 years old, no less — for being what she calls “a complete menace.”

The Baby Driver star told the story during a Tuesday appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, when guest host Brooke Shields asked her about her stint on Sesame Street in Mexico.

“I was. I was on Sesame Street for the blink of an eye,” she said. When Shields asked her why her time was so short, she didn’t hesitate to share, “Because I got kicked out. It was my first ‘getting fired’ moment in life.”

As González explained, she was “a hyperactive child” who “also liked to rile up people.” She added, “I was a complete menace.”

According to the star, the fireable offense took place when she decided to rile up the other child actors and convinced them to break into the office on set. “They had like a mockup of the entire set, and we were like jumping in it, and we broke it, and it was me and I got completely fired from my first job,” she explained, adding, “Big Bird fired me.”

González said her mother’s reaction was to discourage her from continuing her acting career because she was “so naughty.” But, clearly things worked out for the 3 Body Problem star, who concluded, “Surely, I found my way back into it, somehow I wiggled my way in.”

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Elsewhere on the talk show, González dished on her new independent horror-psychological thriller movie Ash. In the film, which also stars Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais, Beulah Koale, Kate Elliott, and Flying Lotus, González plays Riya, an astronaut who wakes up on a mysterious planet to discover her crewmates have been slaughtered, and she has no memory of what happened. When a man named Brion arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues.

“It’s a really fun movie, because I love watching horror films in movie theaters [where] it’s a communal experience and everyone is kind of screaming together,” she told Shields, before encouraging the audience to give an independent film some love. “It’s a little movie that we did in a backlot in a warehouse in New Zealand for no money, with a lot of love and a lot of passion, with a crazy off-the-wall idea. And it’s fun, it’s gory, it’s crazy.”

Ash hits theaters March 21.