Chord Overstreet Admits Crush on Sandra Bullock

By Sheila Cosgrove Baylis

12/02/2013 at 01:45 PM EST

Chord Overstreet and Sandra Bullock

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Chord Overstreet of Glee was so stunned by his celebrity crush, Sandra Bullock, that he was unable to introduce himself to her.

"I've actually never met her," Overstreet admitted on Ellen Monday. "I saw her from a distance at one of these red carpet things and it was a little, a little bit like too scared to talk to her. She was that beautiful."

But when DeGeneres invited Overstreet, 24, to ask out the Gravity actress on camera, he jumped at the opportunity and pleaded for Bullock, 49, to answer him quickly.

"Sandra, would you go out with me? Oh, it would be amazing if you could just respond right now so I'm not left waiting."

Overstreet also spoke about the difficulty of continuing with Glee after Cory Monteith's

"He was that glue," Overstreet adds. "Just that kind of what stuck everybody together."