MANHATTAN — Audiences used to throw rotten fruit at bad actors as far back as the 16th century. But a few weeks ago, when some NYU freshmen interrupted Jude Law's yoga exercises on his Washington Square balcony, the fruit flew in the opposite direction.
Freshmen students staying at the Hayden Hall NYU dorm have been racing to their windows with binoculars in hand, every time they see the star practicing yoga on his balcony, according to the New York Post.
Law is reportedly renting the penthouse at Novare, an old church that has been converted into luxury apartments near Washington Square Park.
Erica Rose, 18, told the Post that she keeps a pair of binoculars at the ready.
"We have the best view on the floor," she told the paper "It is exciting to have a celebrity living right next to you. He is really attractive. He's rugged and scruffy."
Law, who is starring on Broadway in the play "Hamlet", uses the balcony to play with his son and work out with his personal trainer.
But a few weeks ago, students say Law tried to drive the freshmen gawkers away by hurling fruit at them.
"He noticed we were there and we started waving at him. Then he went inside and came back with two oranges," freshman Neha Najeeb told the Post. "He threw them at our window, but he missed." Law then went back inside and returned with two additional oranges, she said.
"This time, he hit the windows — there was orange pulp on the glass for a week — and then he went back to working out," she said. "Now we don't like Jude Law anymore."
