A Kiss Leads to Chaos

According to Fox News--always a near biblically accurate source of information (and I found this tidbit in a section called “Pop Tarts,” so you know it must be true. You don’t name things for toaster pastries if you’re dicking around)--while filming the soon-to-be released Get Smart movie, things got nasty on the set when the stars playing Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 were required to indulge in a big ol’ “on-screen smooch.”

“There was a health scare last year and a certain contact solution, I won’t say the name of it but it was the one that I use--gave you conjunctivitis,” [Anne] Hathaway explained to Pop Tarts while promoting her latest stint as Agent 99. “I also had a sinus infection at the same time. So I had to go up to Steve [Carrel], my eye is red, puffy and dripping green--I’m just like snotty and I’m just like ... ‘Come here!’”

It wasn’t until after their intimate lip-lock that Hathaway discovered she had the highly contagious eye illness and had to make the dreaded call later that night to the film’s producer, Alex Gartner.

“I said you might want to call Steve and let him know I had pink eye and my tears kind of got in my mouth, so he might want to worry about that,” she said.

In a really strange way, all of this just confirms my arms akimbo at the casting of Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. You just know that none of this would have happened to Barbara Feldon. Am I right?

Get Smart opens June 20 at a (ahem) theater near you.