Anne Hathaway did a “cover interview” with the online magazine Refinery29. Only they don’t come right out and say “here is a big interview for our online magazine.” Everything has to be hip and cool for the kidz, so it’s the (Un)Cover, a “a mullti-platform series that reimagines the traditional magazine cover feature.” Are you rolling your eyes yet? Don’t worry, all it means is that there are GIFs thrown in and the layout is stupid. You can see the feature here. Thankfully, I was able to cull some highlights! Annie’s promoting The Intern, her Nancy Meyers comedy also starring Robert DeNiro:
Her thoughts on the Kardashians: “I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I’ve been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner.”
Relating to her ‘Intern’ character: “I don’t always relate to my characters, but Jules I really did. It’s hard to be a person making mistakes in the spotlight, and I related to her on that level. But she is someone who is handling her stress pretty well.”
The double standard for women: “When I was younger, I felt very much like, oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way. You really, really don’t.”
The “be beautiful & likeable” standard for actresses: “That’s the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I’ve had actors argue with me about this. They say, ‘Oh, we all have to have six-packs.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, that might be true, but with women, it’s so many things. It’s not just about having a six-pack. I mean, we have to have a six-pack and be able to run in heels.’”
Being ripped apart during her Oscar campaign: “It does very much at times feel like we’re living in the days of the Colosseum, where people get the thumbs up and you live, or the thumbs down and you die. But the thing is, you won’t die. Sometimes it feels like you will, but you won’t die from humiliation on the internet. You have to get really strong and dig down deep and get really tough. For the first time in my life, I’m feeling comfortable. Not settled, not complacent, but just like I can take whatever is going to come.”
Her work-life balance: “I have a tendency to go into monk mode, and people in my life know that about me. They know that when I’m working on a project, I’m never fully present in my life.”
She recently watched ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ on TV: “Adam turned to me and he’s like, ‘Can we please?’ I said, ‘Yeah, okay.’ I can actually watch it now. It takes me a few years not to pick myself apart so much. But it’s such a good movie.”
Working with DeNiro: “Bob Freakin’ DeNiro… He’s, like, sweet and powerful, and it cracks me up… The man loves The Bachelor.” As proof, Hathaway pulls out her phone and quotes from DeNiro’s email to her and Meyers: “You bet your ass I’m a big Bachelor fan!”
Taking a break from her career: “When you’re burned out and you can’t think straight anymore, if taking time off is an option, do it. You have to be really honest with yourself. Sometimes you need to value your health over your career. I know I say that from a position of privilege, and so many people don’t even get two weeks off a year. But if you do have power over your own schedule, don’t be afraid to say you need a break.”
I appreciate that she’s dialed down the self-pity regarding the “Hathahate.” Was it bad? Sure. But was some of it justified? Kind of. Maybe there’s part of her that understands that too, that people enjoy her as an actress and they’re annoyed by her as a person. Personally, I’d rather hang out with a somewhat cloying goody-two-shoes rather than some trainwreck personality, but then again, I’ve always found Anne to be sort of relatable.
This bugged me a little: “I mean, we have to have a six-pack and be able to run in heels.” Yes, but it’s so much more than that and it would be great if Anne spoke to that, because we can see how those kinds of unreasonable standards affect HER career too. Actresses are expected to be Cool Girls, fashion plates, likeable, humble, skinny (but not too skinny), ageless but not Botoxed, beautiful but not too beautiful, funny, silly, down with bros but into the sisterhood and on and on.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Refinery29.
People that spend their time spewing hate online like to know that the object of that hate is reading and reacting to what is being said. She needs to STOP reading that crap and live her life and don’t give them what they want. This is obviously still bothers her because she is still talking about it.. even if a bit.
She looks STUNNInG! Wow.
Love her.
This. People like to spew hate online just because they can. It surprises me that Eddie Redmayne did not get half the blowback for Oscar campaign that she did for hers, when Eddie was way worse.
I am thinking Anne probably wouldn’t be talking about the hate, except that she is probably always asked about it.
Eddie’s campaign was flawless and you maybe getting him mixed up with Cumberbatch who’s campaign was appalling and he did get blowback for it – mostly on here.
I totally agree with Anne … and I still don’t understand the ‘Hathaway Hate.’
I don’t either.
Same.
“I mean, we have to have a six-pack and be able to run in heels.” And can’t visibly age, are cast with men decades older, are considered “too old” in their 30s, have to search for roles that aren’t “girlfriend/wife of”, oh, and usually get paid less than their male counterparts for the same work.
I do think she sounds good here, and I hope she’s moved on from her Oscar campaign issues. I like her a lot as an actress, and her new movie looks good.
I like Anne, seen all her movies.
Loved her on Lip Sync – Wrecking Ball, it totally cracked me up.
She was amazing lip-syncing Wrecking Ball. She totally went for it.
She crushed that. It was hilarious.
Her Lip Sync Battle “Wrecking Ball” was so early in the first season of that show, and when I watched that amazing, incredible, hilarious performance, I thought, No way will *any* lip sync battle *ever* top *that*. It was a mic drop to end all mic drops, lip-sync-wise.
Sorry, I think she is SO phony and try-hard. Every time I’ve seen her interviewed she seemed completely inauthentic. I don’t think she has a genuine bone in her body. JMHO.
*shrug* She’s nice. We don’t know how to deal with that. We’re more comfortable with snark and sarcasm, or people who are OTT in their acts (like Taylor Swift’s I AM LITERALLY THE NICEST, MOST BESTEST FRIEND EVER OK?) than people who are genuinely nice.
@Bethie, who wrote: “*shrug* She’s nice. We don’t know how to deal with that. We’re more comfortable with snark and sarcasm, or people who are OTT in their acts (like Taylor Swift’s I AM LITERALLY THE NICEST, MOST BESTEST FRIEND EVER OK?) than people who are genuinely nice.”
THIS, so this! Someone made a comment on the Matt Damon article yesterday that he’s just ‘too’ nice and agreeable so something ‘must’ be wrong with him. They said there is something so ‘smug’ about his great guy ‘act,’ and I’ve read the same comment about Anne Hathaway as well. It seems the Internet tends to punish genuinely nice celebrities and make excuses for celebrities deemed bad boys and girls, while putting them on a pedestal. How in the world did we get here?
@ Emma
Unless you know them personally no one knows for sure if Ann, Matt or any other celebrity is genuinely nice that just your take away from them. Look at Bill Cosby, Jon Hamm, Stephen Collins and so on who people thought were genuinely nice and turned out to be the opposite.
Who are theses so called bad boys and girls, that people make excuses for and put them on a pedestal.
I don’t think she is phony at all. She is telling some truths there at risk to herself. How is that phony?
I’m a fan of hers and she was really try-hard during that Oscar campaign. She has a nice mid-range voice, then all of a sudden she decided to speak in this high twee voice that bares no resemblance to anything she’s ever put on screen. It just wasn’t necessary.
I agree that she’s fake–I mean, she’s pulling the “I am SUCH a victim” card harder than Taylor ever has.
A friend of mine said that she is incredibly rude to people she thinks are “beneath her” and then is all smiles and cheer when someone “important” comes around. I think that says a lot about her character.
I feel hate it that AH is supposed to partially blame herself for this. It seems unfair that she is supposed to have learned her lesson and can now baby step, contritely, back to the party. Ugh.so sexist and degrading and all because the keyboard thugs scored a victory off her. Every time we cosign this because we find AH irritating we give online bullies more power. Ugh.
Just like the Colosseum. Our celebrities are literal slaves who literally kill each other for sport.
Anyone else want to call for a moratorium on celebrity metaphors?
I don’t know. In her case, the Colisseum reference is pretty apropos. There was so much hate for this girl during the Oscars, it was pretty out of hand. Whether or not she is “insufferable”, the backlash was ridiculous.
I hear what you are saying, but as far as celebrity metaphors go, I was ok with Anne’s. The use of the ancient thumbs up/thumbs down has a valid connection to today’s internet/social media “like/unlike” culture. Ofcourse, not life or death (duh) but in her case, I’m ok with the reach because she was treated pretty horribly for not really doing anything harmful.
+1000 Polonoscopy!
The competition, the scrutiny at that level must be unbearable. I totally get what she is saying, she is right.
IKR? cry me a river, Anne. Keep talking about how terrible it is to be a multi-millionaire award winning A-list actress. i feel sooooo bad for you.
No, it got way out of hand with her. I mean she received death threats, I even saw comments criticizing the looks of her parents.
I call for a moratorium on incessant self-promotion and the inane interviews that go with it. Ain’t gonna happen, but maybe if all these people would just shut up and do their craft and let the work speak for itself, they wouldn’t have to concern themselves with all the “hate.” And the people who actually have nothing to say because they don’t actually do anything (e.g. the Kardashians) would finally, mercifully, be stopped dead in their tracks.
Ah well….A girl can dream…..
> I call for a moratorium on incessant self-promotion and the inane interviews that go with it. Ain’t gonna happen, but maybe if all these people would just shut up and do their craft and let the work speak for itself, they wouldn’t have to concern themselves with all the “hate.”
Hmm. So, you are proposing to do away with all the marketing?
Half of actor’s job is marketing and promotion. Most of them would love not to do it, and just concentrate on the “craft”. They are not doing it by choice.
I think sometimes that maybe criticism comes from people outside of the US because in the US marketing and advertising is everywhere, and a huge part of practically very job and every step in life,
We are constantly selling ourselves, our projects, this is just how the way things are.
Saying to someone in the US – “just stop with self-promotion” sounds more like “why don’t you crawl into some cave and die” .
Well, for those who appear to equate living with self-promotion……what can I say? And I’m very much in the U.S. and not uninvolved with the business.
It’s actually VERY appropriate. Gladiators weren’t slaves, they were well-cared for athletes and entertainers, injuries were treated well etc pp.
I second the call. So much drama, so little knowledge.
There is something very insincere about her harmless but incredibly insincere. she is crazy dramatic about the hate though I mean really the colloseum? A bit much, I mean I am sure it was horrible and embarrassing and unexpected but seriously she fed to a lion for people’s enjoyment and if she had shut up for 2 minutes it would have stopped.
With all that said the intern looks entertaining as many of her movies are so I will probably go see it.
6 comments in and people are not pearl-clutching at hyperboles! Miracles do happen, after all.
I wish people would stop asking her about Hathahate. It’s over, guys! The internet has moved onto other celebs. Sure it was hardcore and imo totally unjustified. She was getting death threats for just being a thirsty attention-wh*re, which, sure, was annoying, but it’s not like she drugged and raped dozens of women or molested her sister like other ones have. But the talk is getting very old.
I do think people would forget about the Hatha-hate if it wasn’t brought up in interviews (I don’t know whose idea this is to talk about it).
That said, her hair looks really good now and her face seems to be looking its best right (has she done something?) Her eyes look more relaxed or something.
Nice interview.
LBR some of us are guilty of what she’s talking about on here but at least this is a gossip site–––what bothered me about the “hathahate” was when non-gossip sites (or sites that do some original journalism and interview celebrities even if they are also an entertainment site, like Vulture) were running these underhanded, snarky articles about her and sometimes comparing her to Jennifer Lawrence. It reeked of misogyny and sexism, and I expected more from said sites; it made me realize journalism has taken a steep decline in the age of clickbait and getting a soundbite.
Anyway, she’s a talented actress and even if she “did” do something bad (and she didn’t do anything but be annoying) the vitriol would have been over the top unless it was something that broke the law and hurt other people (like domestic abuse). I think that’s what gets me the most about Hatahate—there were 9000 articles about it, even in the NY Times, and very few media sources have acknowledged someone like Terrence Howard’s multiple domestic abuse issues. Anyway, The Intern looks cute and I’m glad she’s managed to escape Hathahate with her career mostly intact.
The real problem here is that journalists still ask her the same question and then it becomes a headline. I think everyone is over the Hathahate thing now and journos need to MOVE ON.
Yes, because having people say mean stuff about you on the internet is JUST like having an emperor decide whether or not you live or die a horrible, violent death. But hey, you know-kudos to you for not saying it was like rape.
Newsflash-the internet is full of total dicks who literally have nothing else to do with their lives except sit online saying bad things about anyone who comes across their radar. We all can choose to ignore it, or feed it.
@Grabbyhands …
I think she’s talking about the sadistic thrill the audience got from watching the horrible, violent deaths.
Because it’s somehow sadistic to say that someone is insufferable?
I honestly just think it shows her narcissism by thinking she’s the only celeb in the entire world to have dealt with negative backlash. It happens all. the. time. She was just tone-deaf and then cried to the press when she finally heard the music.
Also, one weird little side-note: in Rome, a thumbs up = death and a thumbs down = life. It seems counter-intuitive, but it was a “take out your sword” or “sheath your sword” gesture.
Gwyneth could learn a thing or two from her about how to talk about work/life balance. I appreciated that she seems to have a grasp that most of us can’t just take time off. Refreshing. Anne’s downfall is her earnestness. In our age of cynicism, earnestness can be deadly.
I caught part of the devil wears Prada yesterday on TV. What struck me was how beautiful she was and that she had huge pillowy lips that she doesn’t seem to have anymore. And that I was envious she was in Paris…
She was stunning in that movie.
“Sometimes you need to value your health over your career”
duh. what a nice piece of advice, who would have thought.
And we all know what comes after the Colosseum…
Colosseume?
She has always struck me as being insincere and it was that much more apparent during her desperate grab for her Oscar. She’s just mad people called her out on it, lol. And still talking about it, I see. I have strong doubts that she’s as “comfortable” as she says, I’m sure it still plagues her day and night that people don’t like her. Her type will always, always care. She is self-obsessed.
Her new movie looks stupid. More Nancy rich-white-people-only Meyers drivel. Are there any brown or black folks in significant roles in this one? No thanks, I’ll pass.
Love your nick name 😉
You remember Reese in Election? Hathaway kind of reminds me of that character, constantly campaigning. That said though, the nastiness aimed at her by, oh, James Franco for instance, years after the fact, kind of just comes down to woman hating, in my opinion. Speaking of franco he’s taken a gig teaching high school students filmmaking at a Palo Alto h.s. Right.
Every time I read an Anne H. article, she’s always complaining about something and going on and on with explaining why x, y, and z are unfair. It’s never fun, witty, smart interviews, but dreary, critical, lecturing, Debbie Downer-type ones. I imagine she will be one of those old people who complain most of the time thinking they’re being charmingly sassy so long as they smile when saying such things.
Some people are like that, always analyzing. Actually, many people are like that. Not everyone can be the life of the party.
I’m not saying she should always be the life of the party, but that when she’s presenting herself in a situation like an interview, she shouldn’t purposely be trying to sound like she’s constantly complaining.
I am a fan of AH as an actress and am annoyed by her in interviews which is fine by me — I don’t pay money to see actors be themselves, but to play characters. As long as AH is good at her job, I’m going to go see her. Except for this new Intern movie, that looks like a piece of boring garbage. But any movie that looks good that she’s in, I’ll see.
I think Dark Knight Rises set her up perfectly to be a femme fatale-type actress in her 30s, but she chose to go with the Les Miz-Fantine sad innocent type, and no one bought it, and it got tired and overplayed so fast. I guess she thought she couldn’t win the Oscar without being Fantine-like but I think she should have been way more Selina Kyle: cool, cool, cool. A mysterious beautiful woman who throws out a good sarcastic joke every once in a while. She may not have won the Oscar that way but I think she might be getting more parts now if she’d opted for that persona a few years ago.
“It does very much at times feel like we’re living in the days of the Colosseum, where people get the thumbs up and you live, or the thumbs down and you die. But the thing is, you won’t die.”
If it feels as if we’re living in the days of the Colosseum, AnnE, it’s because of the response to people like Donald Trump, not the response to people like you.
The excerpts make me like her a lot.
This post is right next to the Amal Clooney one at the moment, and from the header pics, these two look like they were separated at birth.