Anne Hathaway was left rather embarrassed while promoting her new movie The Idea Of You on The Tonight Show on Tuesday.
The film is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Robinne Lee, which follows a single mother who sparks an unexpected romance with a boy band star.
The Idea Of You had its world premiere at the SXSW festival in March, and will stream globally on Amazon’s Prime Video starting May 2.
The 41-year-old actress appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night talk show on Tuesday, when she was asked about her love interest played by Nicholas Galitzine.
She was trying to describe how she knew he was perfect for the character, and asked the crowd if anyone read the book… but literally no one responded.
Anne Hathaway was left rather embarrassed while promoting her new movie The Idea Of You on The Tonight Show on Tuesday
She was trying to describe how she knew he was perfect for the character, and asked the crowd if anyone read the book… but literally no one responded
After a few seconds of absolute silence, a stunned Hathaway covered her mouth as Fallon joked, ‘No, we don’t read,’ as she added, ‘Well, you should, it’s fabulous.’
Fallon added, ‘We don’t read. This is the Tonight Show. Yeah, you wanna go over to Stephen Colbert if you want to get people who read books.’
Hathaway covered her face with both hands as the audience laughed, before she composed herself and tried to recover.
‘Well, you have an awesome book ahead of you,’ she said, as Fallon joked, ‘We do Audible here, does that count?’
Fallon tried to get the interview back on track, adding, ‘OK, so it’s based on this book,’ as Hathaway joked, ‘What’s a book?’
Hathaway added, ‘Well the book does have a fan following… somewhere, and I think the book is incredible.’
She continued that her love interest character Hayes Campbell, ‘is just so beautifully written in the book and so we knew we really needed to find someone really special.’
‘And he walked in and I just thought, “Oh, that’s Hayes Campbell.” And that was almost two years ago, and now Nick and I have become really good friends,’ Hathaway said.
After a few seconds of absolute silence, a stunned Hathaway covered her mouth as Fallon joked, ‘No, we don’t read,’ as she added, ‘Well, you should, it’s fabulous’
Fallon added, ‘We don’t read. This is the Tonight Show. Yeah, you wanna go over to Stephen Colbert if you want to get people who read books’
‘Well, you have an awesome book ahead of you,’ she said, as Fallon joked, ‘We do Audible here, does that count?’
The interview comes just after the actress shared in a new profile in the New York Times that she was marking five years without alcohol.
She gushed that the accomplishment felt like a ‘milestone’ to her, and she added that being ‘forty feels like a gift.’
The Princess Diaries star — who teased a third film in the series in the same interview — shared her updated years after revealing years earlier that she hoped to stay away from booze until her first child turned 18.
In January of 2019, she appeared on the since-ended Ellen DeGeneres Show to chat about how expanding her family with her husband Adam Shulman had made her want to get sober.
