Perhaps you’ve seen Scarlett Johansson’s new video and were impressed by the actress-turned-singer’s dirge-like cover of Tom Waits’ “Falling Down.”
The Daily Mail was less impressed by her singing than her co-star: Salman Rushdie. The author has a blink-and-miss-it cameo in the video nuzzling Ms. Johansson’s hair and neck. (Who said writers have it tough?)
The paper takes pains to note of Booker Prize-winning author, “it’s fair to say [he] is not classically handsome,” and speculates about the odd, unexplained pairing:
Mr. Rushdie’s appearance in the video isn’t nearly as strange as his other recent acting gig: He currently appears in Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me, as a gynecologist.
(Related: Rushdie gets enamored of Olivia Wilde at the Correspondents’ Dinner this past weekend— scroll down a bit to find the passage in our coverage of the weekend.)
