Jimmy Kimmel; Malala Yousafzai.Photo: Rich Polk/Variety via Getty; Rodin Eckenroth/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty
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“Your work on human rights and education for women and children is an inspiration. As the youngestNobel Prize winnerin history, I was wondering, do you think Harry Styles spit onChris Pine?” deadpanned Kimmel, 55, reading a supposed question from a fan.
“I only talk about peace,” Yousafzairesponded to the hostas her fellow audience members laughed.
The hilarious moment came aftera recent “Explain This” videointerview forEsquire, in which Pine addressed the viral conspiracy theory that Styles, 29, spit on him at a screening ofDon’t Worry Darlingwhile Pine sat between the pop star and director/costarOlivia Wilde.
“Harry did not spit on me,” said Pine,whose rep previously deniedthat it happened in a statement to PEOPLE. “Harry’s a very kind guy.”
“I’m flying back from Venice and I’m sleeping, having a great time on the plane, I love planes, and [my publicist] wakes me up in a, you know, state and said, ‘We have to craft a message about what happened in Venice,'” theDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thievesactor continued. “And I was like, ‘About what?’ ‘About Harry spitting on you,’ which I had no idea what happened.”
Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Harry Styles and Gemma Chan.Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
He added, “She showed me the thing and it does look, indeed, like Harry’s spitting on me. Hedidn’t spit on me.”
“He leaned down and I think he said, ‘It’s just words, isn’t it?’ Because we had this little joke, we’re all jet-lagged, we’re all trying to answer these questions, and sometimes when you’re doing these press things your brain goes befuddled and you start speaking jibberish,” explained Pine. “And we had a joke, ‘It’s just words, man.'”
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Yousafzai was atthe Oscarsto supportStranger at the Gate, a film she producedthat wasnominated for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Born in Mingora, Pakistan, Yousafzai was 15 when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus andshot her in the facein 2012. Despite the injury, she never stopped fighting for girls education, going on to win the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17.
“Eight years after she received the #NobelPeacePrize @Malala continues to stand up for girls’ rights to education,” the official Twitter account for the esteemed prize wrote in honor of her birthday, going on to share a special message she wrote when she visited the Nobel Institute in Norway back in 2014.
“I will continue my fight for the education of every child,” she wrote in the message, adding, “I will not stop until I see every child in school.”
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source: people.com
