Anne Hathaway chides ‘Tonight Show’ audience after awkward ‘The Idea of You’ question
nypost.comAnne Hathaway is now taking credit for “The Idea of You” book making the best-seller list — well, sort of.The Oscar winner joked about her new film, which is based off the Robinne Lee romance book, in an Instagram Story Sunday.“Audience said ‘hold my book!!!’ ” she captioned a screenshot of the novel hitting the milestone.
She circled “No. 1” and tagged Jimmy Fallon and his late-night talk show.Last week, Hathaway went viral when she asked the “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” audience if they had read the book — and the response was absolute silence in the NBC studio.“Has anybody here read the book?” she asked at the time.When no one responded she buried her face with her hands.Fallon, meanwhile, tried to help her out during the awkward moment.“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!” he said. “We do Audible here.”Appearing embarrassed, she noted: “What’s a book?”The “Bride Wars” actress stars in the Michael Showalter-directed film as an exhausted single mom who has a fling with a famous 24-year-old British boy-bander, played by Nicholas Galitzine.Lee opened up about the movie’s ending in a new interview, but admitted: “It’s not the story I wanted to tell.”“I wanted to make a point about how, as women, we put others’ happiness before our own,” she told Entertainment Weekly.“The book is a book, and the movie is a movie,” she went on.
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