Jude Law taunted by neighbors, an NYU freshman dorm

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When I first read this story at the New York Post, I misread it and thought it was a story about Jude Law moving into a freshman dorm at NYU. I thought to myself “that’s strange” and “New York real estate is crazy” and “ten freshman girls will be pregnant by December”. But the actual story is about Jude moving into an apartment right next to a freshman dorm. Hm… why do I still think some freshman girls are going to get knocked up? Anyhoodle, Jude is living next to the dorm, and the kids are going crazy for him whenever they see him on his patio of working out or anything. They yell at him, and he throws oranges. Real mature!

When Jude Law moved in next door to an NYU freshman dorm, he didn’t realize he’d be giving away front-row seats to every performance — and he’s hardly pleased with his “audience.”

Star-struck students say they race to their dorm windows whenever the actor sets foot on his Washington Square balcony, as seen above in photos taken by one of the kids.

“There is pretty much chaos on every floor when he comes out,” said Priya Vij, 18, who has a direct view of Law’s balcony from her Hayden Hall window.

“People start screaming, ‘Hey, Jude’ — and it’s clear he can hear us.”

Erica Rose, 18, keeps a pair of binoculars at the ready.

“We have the best view on the floor,” she said. “It is exciting to have a celebrity living right next to you. He is really attractive. He’s rugged and scruffy.”

The star of Broadway’s “Hamlet,” who uses the balcony to play with his son and work out with his personal trainer, apparently does not appreciate the attention.

In Shakespeare’s day, audience members heckled actors by hurling rotten fruit. But a few weeks ago, when Law’s yoga session was interrupted, the fruit flew in the opposite direction.

“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.”

Law couldn’t be reached for comment.

Naheeb’s roommate, Kaitlin Coari, said Law should stick to throwing the slings and arrows of his “Hamlet” role instead of produce.

“We couldn’t believe it when the orange hit the window,” she said. “I’m supposed to go see ‘Hamlet’ with my sister this Saturday. It’s awkward — I should bring some oranges, I guess.”

[From The New York Post]

I would feel for Jude, but I don’t. I kind of wonder if he likes the attention. It must be funny to hear catcalls from dozens of 18-year-old girls every time you scratch your ass on your patio. What’s with the throwing oranges thing? What would I do if my neighbor was catcalling and yelling at me? Well, I wouldn’t throw oranges. I’d be clever and load up one of those big water guns with something really gross and sticky yet viscous, like a mixture of syrup and soda, and Super-Soak all of the windows I could hit. And why not move as well? Maybe Jude didn’t want to bother, since his play only runs through next month.

Here’s Jude, looking pretty good, at the ‘Only Make Believe’ 10th Anniversary Celebration in New York on November 2, 2009. Credit: WENN

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  1. Firestarter says:

    Jeez, get over yourdelf Jude! Be flattered anyone cares at all!

  2. Ally says:

    That photo of him at the NYP link is hilarious. Work out inside if it bugs you, you dope! If one of those oranges had missed and fallen on a pedestrian, he’d have one multimillion lawsuit on his head. This guy doesn’t think much before he acts, does he?

    Also, “ten freshman girls will be pregnant by December”, lol.

  3. wow says:

    That would get annoying real quick. He’s at his home for Pete’s sake. If he were to go to their homes and act like that, he’d end up having to pay some sort of fine for being a heckler. Or they’d sell their story to a tabloid and make money off of it.

  4. Pole says:

    They’ve tweeted too and THEY sounded like pervs. Everyone deserves privacy in their own home IMO. If this was a female actress treated like this by male students people would feel sorry for her, I’m guessing.

  5. Tia C says:

    Jeez, they’re college students, what does he expect? It’s not like he’s living next to an order of nuns. Which, come to think of it, would be a much safer place for Jude Law to be living.

  6. Sumodo says:

    Jude has no restraint at all with women and no real estate sense! Hahahahha

  7. Mairead says:

    Erica Rose et al. – scrounge up some feckin’ dignity you creepy sad sacks!

    BINOCULARS!!?!! Plastering yourself to your windows and gawping over like perverted slack-jawed yokel?. If it’s annoying Law, imagine how irritating it could be for his neighbours. (it’s no creepier than if it was a dorm of male students leering over at Natalie Portman everyday, what’s sauce for the goose and all that)

    Future captains of industry, eh? Gawd help us.

  8. An says:

    I don’t understand why he didn’t complain to the dorm administrators or NYU itself. Sure, the students are annoying, but he is hurling fruit at a private building not owned by the students. Technically, if he broke a window, wouldn’t he be at fault? If I caught my neighbor’s teenaged kids gawking at me, although the temptation to grab a BB gun and shoot might work, hopefully, I’d remember that I’m an adult and just talk to their parents.

  9. Lifa says:

    Those NYU girls are pathetic pervs. If they were guys gawking at a woman, they’d be reported to the police. Mairead is right, what’s sauce for the goose & all.

    I’m sure he was not amused but he also didn’t think it was such a big deal to report to the authorities. He just threw the oranges to blow off steam. That’s understandable. Those girls should be ashamed of themselves.

  10. Lenore says:

    “Now we don’t like Jude Law anymore” – priceless.

    Seriously, although heaving fruit at them is not the most mature response, and although he might have been wiser to check out the adjacent buildings before renting this apartment, and whatever kind of babyjuice-venting manwhore you think he is, nobody deserves to be harassed like that in his (or her) own home.

    Those girls need to grow up. Pathetic.

  11. insidescoop says:

    HHAHAHA!

    I used to live in that dorm when I was at NYU. We could see in to Ben Stiller’s backyard at the time. Basketball was his favorite outdoor activity.

    Ed Norton was also a neighbor right around the time he and Selma broke up. Let’s just say he was not the friendliest of neighbors…

  12. Jag says:

    He should’ve thought twice before buying the property. At very least, living so close to a dorm could be noisy, but since he’s a celebrity, he had to know that they would notice him. Then yeah, he’s working out on his balcony? That’s like the women who lie topless in their backyards, expecting the roofers not to notice; it’s not going to happen.

    As for throwing fruit, back in my day, we starving college students would be trying to catch those oranges, so probably would be bothering him just so he’d throw them. lol

  13. Pole says:

    He hasn’t bought the place. It’s rented for him while he’s in NY doing Hamlet on Broadway. Most likely he didn’t find the place himself.

    Again – had this been about MALE students gawking at a FEMALE actress reactions would most likely be quite different. Such doublestandards..

  14. Emily says:

    Working out on his balcony just makes me think of the dad from 10 Things. Anyway. Why would you continue to work out on your balcony if you had students heckling you all the time? Does he not have any space inside?