Anne Hathaway opened up this week about her experience “in the 2000s” asking her to kiss “ten guys” to study chemistry.
“I was told, ‘We have ten people coming today and you’ve been cast. Aren’t you excited to go out with them all?’ And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ Because I wasn’t excited,” Hathaway said V Magazine. He didn’t say what project the audition was for.
“I thought it looked gross,” he continued. “And I was very young and terribly aware of how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘difficult,’ so I just pretended to be excited and got on with it.”
Hathaway said the practice was “considered normal” within the early days. “It wasn’t a power play, nobody was trying to scare me or hurt me,” she said. “It was a completely different time and now we know better.”
For his recent film, The Idea of YouHathaway worked as a producer – and taught her chemistry in a barely different way.
“We asked each of the prospective actors to pick a song that they thought their character would like, put my character to dance to, and then we’d do a little improvisation. ,” They said. “I was sitting in a chair like we came from dinner or a walk or something, we pressed play, and we just started dancing together.”
Based on Robin Leigh’s 2017 novel of the identical name, the film tells the story of a 40-year-old single mother (Hathaway) who falls for a 24-year-old international pop star played by Nicholas Galetzine.
During his audition, Galetzine picked up a song by The Alabama Shakes, Hathaway recalled. “It was just easy. I listened [lead singer] Britney’s voice and I just started smiling. And he saw me smiling, so he relaxed, and we just started dancing. No one was pretending. No one was trying to get a gig. We were just in a space dance. I looked over and our director, Michael Showalter, was beaming. Spark!”
The Idea of You Set for a streaming release on Prime Video on May 2.
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