Will.i.am has announced his desire to make an album with Anne Hathaway, telling the actor he was "blown away" by her singing performance in the movie Rio.

"I want to make music with you!" Will declared in a recent radio chat with Ryan Seacrest. "From Rio 1, I was like, 'She sings like that?!' ... It would be so amazing to do music outside of an animated film. That would be freaking dope."

Hathaway and the principal Black Eyed Pea both loaned their voices to the first Rio as well as to its recent sequel – she as a blue macaw and he as a cardinal. They also collaborated as part of the first movie's soundtrack, singing the heavily Auto-Tuned avian single Hot Wings (I Wanna Party).

"I am blushing so hard right now," Hathaway said after hearing will.i.am's comments. "The thing is, he's going to get me in the studio and then he's going to hear me for real, and he's going to be like, 'Oh, never mind.' [I mean] he works with [Black Eyed Peas'] Fergie! That's like his 9am meeting. I can't beat that!"

Though never as a pop star, Hathaway has had lots of previous opportunities to show off her vocal abilities: singing in Les Miserables and at the Oscars, plus a recent hip-hop cover set on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "I couldn’t think of anything worse than being a pop star," she told the Sun earlier this week. "The idea of laying it all bare and writing songs about my love life, changing situations, that scares me ... I've always wanted to be in a band and be the cool lead singer, but I’m so uncool!"

As she conceded to Seacrest: "[Maybe] I'll do the [finger] snaps at the back of the album."