Anne Hathaway on the 2024 Movie Impartial Spirit Awards on Feb. 25, 2024
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Anne Hathaway gained an Oscar. Then her profession took a flip for the more severe.
The actress says in a brand new profile that co-hosting the 2013 Oscars and taking house the distinction for finest supporting actress for Les Misérables marked a tipping level the place her on-line and media popularity turned “poisonous” — to the purpose the place the she says it price her film roles.
The viral phenomenon dubbed “Hathahate” had no precise trigger, apart from the actress having fun with a surge in publicity and recognition that acquired her dubbed “annoying” by some, taking her from It Woman to Not-It Woman due to some on-line backlash.
After profitable the Oscar, Hathaway instructed Vainness Truthful, “lots of people wouldn’t give me roles, as a result of they had been so involved about how poisonous my identification had grow to be on-line.”
Then director Christopher Nolan got here alongside, casting her in his blockbuster movie Interstellar (2014).
“I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who didn’t care about that and gave me one of the crucial lovely roles I’ve had in the most effective movies that I’ve been part of,” she mentioned of Nolan casting her within the Matthew McConaughey-led house epic. (She additionally starred in Nolan’s The Darkish Knight Rises in 2012). “I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me on the time, however it had that impact. And my profession didn’t lose momentum the best way it may have if he hadn’t backed me.”
She added, “Humiliation is such a tough factor to undergo. The bottom line is to not let it shut you down. It’s a must to keep daring, and it may be onerous since you’re like, ‘If I keep protected, if I hug the center, if I don’t draw an excessive amount of consideration to myself, it gained’t damage.’ However if you wish to do this, don’t be an actor. You’re a tightrope walker. You’re a daredevil. You’re asking folks to speculate their time and their cash and their consideration and their care into you. So you need to give them one thing value all of these issues. And if it’s not costing you something, what are you actually providing?”
After the Oscars, a New York Instances story requested, “Do We Actually Hate Anne Hathaway?” and ran down a few of the barbs she endured from the media, akin to The San Francisco Chronicle dubbing her “Probably the most annoying superstar” of the 12 months and a New Yorker author exploring the query, “Why are you so annoying?” Hathaway’s Oscar co-host James Franco went on The Howard Stern Present the place the radio host mentioned, “Everybody type of hates Anne Hathaway” and mentioned she comes off “so affected and actressy.” To which Franco replied, “I’m not an knowledgeable on — I assume they’re referred to as ‘Hatha-haters’ — however I believe that’s what possibly triggers it.”
In response to the brand new interview, one consumer on Reddit identified: “I believe it’s bonkers that so many actresses are on skinny ice, regardless of how likable they’re, or how gifted they’re, lots of people, particularly in on-line areas are ready for them to only slip up, or not even slipping up, simply something they’ll deem ‘unlikable’ and voila! the remainder of the web runs with it. Anne Hathaway has been nothing however likable, and the ‘hate marketing campaign’ towards her was loopy. Reddit turned on Jennifer Lawrence bc she was like, ‘Don’t watch my leaked nudes.’ Some male actors undergo it too, but when they attain the ‘web boyfriend’ standing, they’re virtually untouchable. Rachel Zegler and Brie Larson too. They made innocent statements about modernizing an previous story [and] the statements had been misinterpreted after which it unfold like wildfire, and now each publish they make, there are folks telling them to kill themselves. The popular culture nook of the web is poisonous. Not saying that misogyny didn’t exist earlier than, however the web has amplified these voices.”
Hathaway is at the moment selling her upcoming Amazon romcom The Thought of You, which not too long ago had its debut on the South by Southwest Movie & TV Competition and will likely be launched on Prime Video on Could. 2.