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Tina Fey held no ill will toward Timothée Chalamet after the “Marty Supreme” star was criticized online for spreading his legs during an NBA playoff game at Madison Square Garden in April.
On the May 27 episode of the “New Heights” podcast, the “30 Rock” actress acknowledged the swarm of memes slamming Chalamet over a photo of him “spreading manhood” next to her. This photo was taken during the NBA playoff game between the New York Knicks and Atlanta Hawks on April 28th.
“I have to start off by saying Timothée Chalamet was just lovely and very friendly,” she told hosts Jason Kelsey and Travis Kelsey. “And it was the next day that I saw what all these people were spreading.”
The “Mean Girls” director added that while Chalamet may have been manspreading, he was “doing the opposite,” joking that he was tucking his foot in to put “a big ol’ can of food” behind him.
“As Amy Poehler says, God is fair,” she quipped. “Everything went well and the Knicks won, so everyone was happy.”
What is manspreading?
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, manspreading is “the act or practice of men sitting with their legs spread wide (as in public seating areas) so as to infringe on the space of others.”
Oxford University Press added the word to its dictionary in 2015.
According to the University of Oxford, the phrase originated colloquially and was in use as early as 2008, but gained popularity in 2014 when the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority launched a poster campaign targeting manspreading.
Contributor: Melina Khan, USA TODAY
