Anne Hathaway left embarrassed when ‘Tonight Show’ audience has brutal reaction to her question
Let’s try that again.
Anne Hathaway only heard crickets when she asked the audience a question during her appearance Monday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
The Oscar winner, 41, was promoting her new rom-com, “The Idea of You,” when she inquired: “Has anybody here read the book?”
Spoiler alert: No.
The crowd went silent as Fallon interjected, “No, we don’t read. This is ‘The Tonight Show.’ You want to go to Stephen Colbert if you want to get people to read books. Lame!”
Fallon, 49, went on: “We do Audible here.”
The “Devil Wears Prada” actress covered her face with her hands while laughing after the awkward moment.
Appearing embarrassed, she quipped: “What’s a book?”
Hathaway stars in the R-rated comedy alongside Nicholas Galitzine. The Michael Showalter-directed film follows an exhausted single mom who has a fling with a famous 24-year-old British boy-bander.
“She’s believable in a totally implausible plot, and never overacts even when the circumstances all but beg her to,” New York Post movie critic Johnny Oleksinski said of Hathaway’s performance, giving the movie three stars. “The film, with a smart script by Jennifer Westfeldt, is a sort-of reverse “Notting Hill,” but without the ‘90s shimmer of the Richard Curtis-penned comedy. And with a lot more crying.”
Hathaway opened up about the age gap between the two characters in an interview with Today.
“It’s kind of fun to be in a film where we talk about it, where we don’t dance around it, but we actually embrace her point of view on it,” she said. “It’s funny, it’s OK if 40 is old, it’s OK if 40 isn’t old, it’s OK whatever it is, because it’s personal. For Solène, her point of view is, you know, she became a mom really young and she really wanted to have a career and so she doesn’t totally identify with her age.”
“She feels like maybe she’s done things a little bit out of order and for her, 40 means it’s a time … of self-discovery for her,” she continued. “And that’s what the movie says … how wonderful that she finds someone that she feels so supported by, seen by, embraced by, valued by.”
“The Idea of You” hits theaters on May 2.
