Amy Poehler Doomed Her One Chance With Prince With The Dorkiest Question
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"He just floated away into the elevator in a lavender haze of talent," Poehler recalled of her clunky exchange with the late singer on "Saturday Night Live."
Amy Poehler told Jimmy Kimmel this week that she totally botched her one encounter with music legend Prince ― and we gotta agree. (Watch the video below.)
Prince had appeared on “Saturday Night Live” when Poehler was in the cast but apparently not immune to awkwardness around celebrities.
“Was he friendly?” Kimmel asked on Wednesday’s episode of his talk show.
“Well, I’ll never know because I really blew my chance,” she recalled. “He came offstage during the soundcheck and walked past me, and ... he just kind of gave me a little eye contact and said hello. And I said, ‘How was your summer?’
“That was my question to Prince,” the “Inside Out 2” star added, still in apparent disbelief that this was the best she could do.
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