Anne Hathaway is the cover girl for the November issue of Vogue Magazine, to promote her film with Jake Gyllenhaal, Love and Other Drugs. The cover is lovely (the shoot is by Mario Testino), but it’s also rather Christmas-y. Oh, well. I don’t hate Anne, so I enjoy seeing her on the cover of Vogue, rather than someone like Blake Lively or Kate Hudson or someone like that. Through the shoot, it seems like they’re going a little heavy on the Audrey Hepburn/Breakfast at Tiffany’s thing, which I would have hoped Anne would avoid. It seems like blondes can’t avoid the Marilyn trap, and brunettes can’t avoid the Audrey trap. The full interview is here, at Vogue. Here are some of the highlights:

On the photo shoot with Testino: “It’s Holly Golightly meets Marge Simpson….It was true glamour. Not just the clothes and the jewels but that feeling that glamour can produce in you, which is like a dream.”

On being in Paris: “I’ve never seen a Kelly bag or a Birkin bag in person… and at my age, it’s about time.”

On shopping: “I’ve been slowly trying to build a wardrobe as opposed to rushing out and buying everything in sight,” she tells me later. “You can’t force the process.”

On Rachel Getting Married: A movie that, Hathaway says, “transformed” her: “I felt far closer to the person that I wanted to be and the actress that I wanted to be than I ever had before.”

On Love and Other Drugs: “I tried not to like the script as much as I did, because it scared me,” Hathaway says. “What if it becomes a melodrama? What if the audience doesn’t find these challenging characters charming? There were so many things that could possibly go wrong with it. I heard her voice so strongly in my head, and when that happens I just can’t tune it out,” she says. “She feels like a girl you might actually know.”

Jake Gyllenhaal on Anne: They develop “the intimacies and complexities between Annie and me, because we have what’s starting to be a long history together, professionally and as friends.”

Anne on the sex scenes: “This movie certainly has a lot of nerve,” she says, arching an eyebrow. “Oy. I hope that audiences are OK with all the nerve.” But in the end she felt the nudity was integral to who the characters are. “These are people who have no trouble taking their clothes off—in a way, their bodies are their currency,” she explains. “But they’re terrified of exposing their vulnerability, of becoming emotionally naked.” It was that emotional baring it all that Hathaway found difficult, to say the least. “I was a wreck from start to finish,” she admits. “I think I cried every single day. I had to lean so much more heavily on everyone around me than I’m used to. I’m used to pulling my own weight. But I totally fell apart.”

On her felon ex, Raffaello Follieri. “Gosh, I hate talking about the breakup, because I don’t want it to define me, but as is to be expected, there were a lot of lingering trust issues.” (As we meet, the jewelry he gave her during their relationship—which she turned over to the FBI last spring—is about to be publicly auctioned off.) “And I think that making a film about trust that required a great deal of trust—well, it was a challenge to get there.”

Anne on dealbreakers: I ask her to name some of her “deal breakers” when it comes to men. She touches her index finger to her chin and gazes up, as if in thought. “Uh . . . fraud?” she says, looking back at me and exploding with laughter. Then she gets more pensive. “I’ve always believed in people’s capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I’m not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.” What would she say she’s learned? “To be more wary. It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I’m very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.”

On relationships: “When I begin a relationship, there’s that pressure to be the most, to be more comfortable and open than anyone else. When you finally realize that you can just be your own scared, f-cked-up self and that you can still be sexy without trying to be, it’s such a great relief. When uncondensed you is enough.” She stops and laughs. “Hey, that’s pretty good. If acting doesn’t work out, I could have a future in advertising.”

On her new boyfriend: Hathaway is currently seeing an actor named Adam Shulman, whom she met through mutual friends. “We hit it off immediately, but it took us a pretty long time to get together,” Hathaway recalls. “He thought that I had a boyfriend, and I thought that he had a girlfriend, so I thought that I’d better keep my distance because I didn’t want to be that girl.” Once they figured out that neither of them was attached, Hathaway says, “things sped up a bit—and I think I’ll leave it at that.”

On aging in Hollywood: “I’m entering a new phase of my career where the stories are becoming a lot more specific about where the character is in her life,” Hathaway says. “People don’t always want to tell stories about women in their 30s and 40s and 50s. Obviously, some of those ages are pretty far off for me, but I know it’s coming. What I’ve observed and what I’ve imagined—and definitely what I’m hoping—happens as you get older is that there’s a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time,” she says. “I guess that I’ll find out.”

[From Vogue]

I think it’s clear Anne is still uncomfortable talking about the Follieri situation, and that’s why she’s making such awkward jokes. I still think she knew more than she’s spoken about publicly, but if the FBI is content with her involvement, then so be it. All in all, I am kind of rooting for her to have more successes – she’s one of the few younger actresses who I actually think can act her ass off. We’ll see!

Photos courtesy of Vogue.