2024-03-25 19:30:00
Remember when Anne Hathaway left a Vanity Fair photo shoot in January to support employees?
At the time, the Condé Nast Union, which was protesting layoffs and negotiating a new contract, was holding a 24-hour work stoppage.
As employees participated in the walkout, so did Hathaway, walking out of the photo shoot while she was still in hair and makeup.
Now the photos taken at the rescheduled shoot are a part of a cover story where the Oscar-winning actor, who grew up in Millburn, reflects on her career.
One of those reflections: There was a time when she was worried about her career because of online hate.
It had become fashionable to criticize Hathaway for her seemingly too-earnest acceptance speech at the Academy Awards in 2013, when she won the Oscar for best supporting actress for playing Fantine in “Wretched.”
In the interviewshe says that trend cost her acting jobs.
“A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” says Hathaway, 41, who stars in the upcoming romantic comedy “The Idea of You.”
But she says one director — the one who just won the Oscar for best director — tuned out all the noise.
“I had an angel in Christopher Nolanwho did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of,” Hathaway says of the “Oppenheimer” helmer.
She’d already worked with Nolan in the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012), as Selina Kyle. The director came back to her for “Interstellar” (2014), in which she played the astronaut Brand.
“I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect,” she says in the interview. “And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.”
Hathaway also weighs in on what she’d tell a young person targeted by “cyber-hate.”
“I want to hug them, make them tea and tell them to live as long and as well as they can,” she says. “That there is an excellent chance that the longer they live, the smaller this moment will feel. That I wish them a life a million times more fascinating than this terrible moment.”
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