Acting fail! Oscar winner Julianne Moore is BEATEN by Jimmy Fallon as they play Box Of Lies on The Tonight Show
Julianne Moore despite being an Oscar winner showed on Tuesday that she isn’t always good at lying on command.
The 54-year-old Ask Alice star dissolved into giggles when required to be deceptive while playing a game on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Her bumble came during a game called Box Of Lies where she had to fib to the talk show host about the contents of several mystery boxes.
Oscar winner: Julianne Moore appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday night in an all-white outfit
When given a framed photo of herself and Fallon with the words ‘Friends Forever’ she blundered through her lie.
‘It’s a wide…like, a metal paddle hairbrush with a silver handle and…’ she trailed off vaguely.
‘What’s going on? Are you having a stroke, are you OK?,' Fallon asked her.
Game show: Jimmy Fallon had his guest Julianne play one of the show's regular games Box Of Lies
‘OK,’ she said and tried again.
‘A large, paddle hairbrush, maybe for a person, maybe or for an animal…in…in like a knitted sock cozy,’ she blithered.
When questioned about the details of the object she immediately crumbled and burst into laughter.
Nice try: Julianne tried her best to come up with a good lie for Jimmy
‘Lies!’ shouted Fallon, who had managed to mislead Moore about the object in his box just moments earlier.
‘Maybe I should get an Oscar,’ he wisecracked proudly.
The game followed an interview in which The Hours actress discussed her new movie Freeheld.
Good times: Jimmy and Julianne laughed as they played the game
Making the rounds: Julianne has been promoting her new movie Freeheld co-starring Ellen Page
The film is based on the true love story of a lesbian couple who fought for gay rights in New Jersey.
‘They are the people that paved the way for marriage equality,’ said Moore, 54, who plays Laurel Hester, a detective who is in a relationship with Stacie Andree played by 28-year-old Ellen Page.
Describing how she heard people in New York City discussing the movie when they ‘saw the poster’ she mimicked a layperson’s voice and said: ‘The lady from Boogie Nights is a lesbian with the girl from Juno’.
Summed it up: The actress jokingly summed up her movie for Jimmy
True story: Julianne is shown in a still from Freeheld playing a cancer-stricken police officer attempting to transfer her pension benefits to her same-sex partner
Earlier in the show the Hunger Games actress talked about receiving her Academy Award for Still Alice.
‘I was freaking out, I was terrified,’ she said.
She then threw her son 17-year-old son Caleb under the bus by recounting how he once accidentally texted her instead of his girlfriend.
Teen texting: The actress also revealed that her teenage son Caleb accidentally texted her instead of his girlfriend
‘He called me ‘'babe'’ and I’m like ‘'hey? It’s mom!'’ giggled The Big Lebowski star, who has just appeared on the cover of the gay magazine Out.
‘And my daughter thinks I have a fake laugh,’ added Moore, who was looking angelic in a white dress and black stilettos.
‘Then I loose my laugh… and I can’t even locate my laugh anymore,’ she continued, demonstrating her range of phony guffaws.
That's her laugh: Julianne also said she lost her laugh after her daughter said it sounded fake
Fallon also interviewed Saved By the Bell star Mark-Paul Gosselaar, 41, who has just become a father for the fourth time.
‘I’m Dutch and I don’t know if you know this but in Holland Gosselaar means ‘f***s like rabbits’,’ he joshed.
He also revealed that Zack Morris, his character on the popular 90s TV show, is ‘half Asian’.
Television star: Mark-Paul Gosselaar also appeared on the chat show
Getting better: Jimmy was sporting a smaller bandage on his injured finger
‘My mother from Indonesia…this tiny Asian women,’ he said.
‘Zach Morris is half Asian, my hair wasn’t really blond,’ he laughed.
‘The muse for my character was Ferris Bueller,’ added the star, who is now on a show called Truth Be Told with Vanessa Lachey, 34.
Not blonde: Mark-Paul revealed that he dyed his hair blonde for Saved By The Bell
Earlier in Fallon’s show he joked about President Obama’s awkward handshake with Vladimir Putin – calling it the ‘two pump grump’ and the ‘fake and shake’.
He also discussed the collapse of Facebook ‘two times in one week’.
Good one: Jimmy joked about the recent outages at Facebook
‘I feel like people were just holding up their babies in the street and asking ‘do you like this?’
Another gag came from Vin Diesel’s announcement that he’d be ending the Fast and Furious franchise with ‘three more movies’.
‘The next one will be him spending two hours looking for a parking space in Costco…I mean they’re running out of ideas,’ he giggled.
Fallon is back on Wednesday night on NBC.
Musical guest: Joe Jonas of DNCE performed on The Tonight Show
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