You almost don’t want to keep watching – but you can’t look away.

Paper Towns star Cara Delevingne’s interview with Good Day Sacramento turned into car-crash TV as she became irritated with the anchors, who complained about her attitude and told her to “take a nap”.

Things started off on a bad foot when Cara was introduced as Carla, but the interview didn’t get any better when the questions started.

The anchors started with some pretty patronising questions about whether the model-turned-actress had found the time to actually read John Green’s novel, Paper Towns, or whether she was “too busy”.

Unfortunately, they didn’t get Cara’s sarcastic sense of humour when she quipped she had “never read the book, or the script. I kind of winged it,” before explaining that she had of course read the book and found it “amazing”.

Author John Green, Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne and director Jake Schreier  and the Paper Towns photocall in London
Cara seemed full of beans at the London photocall for Paper Towns

The 22-year-old model strained to crack a smile and rolls her eyes as the questions continue, dismissing a bumbling question about whether she functions better when she’s busy with “No, I don’t know where that comes from. No.”

The anchors, who continually cut in while she is talking, seemed surprised that Cara was not the cheerful, peppy interviewee they had been expecting. One explained that he had seen her talking about the film in London, adding: “You seemed a lot more excited about it than you do now. Are you just exhausted?”

Cara Delevingne
Cara Delevingne (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

The actress was visibly taken aback and defended herself, but another anchor continued: “You do seem a bit irritated. Perhaps it’s just us”.

Cara fired back: “Yeah, yeah, I think think it’s just you”.

The unimpressed anchor told her to “take a little nap, maybe get a Red Bull”, and the interview ended early – after three minutes of excruciating awkwardness.

Paper Towns opens in UK cinemas on August 17.