Anne Hathaway attends the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, U.S. February 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
Anne Hathaway has learned a lot as an actress, and now a producer.
In an interview with V Magazine, the actress shares how an experience early in her career came in handy when producing her new film The Idea of You. “Back in the 2000s – and this did happen to me – it was considered normal to ask an actor to make out with other actors to test for chemistry. Which is actually the worst way to do it,” Anne says. “I was told, ‘We have ten guys coming today and you’re cast. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ because I wasn’t excited. I thought it sounded gross. And I was so young and terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘difficult,’ so I just pretended I was excited and got on with it. It wasn’t a power play, no one was trying to be awful or hurt me. It was just a very different time and now we know better.”
Hathaway shares how they found that spark by casting Nicholas Galitzine as her love interest in the film. “We asked each of the actors coming in to choose a song that they felt their character would love, that they would put on to get my character to dance, and then we’d do a short little improv. I was sitting in a chair like we had come in from dinner or a walk or something, we pressed play, and we just started dancing together,” the actress says.
Galtizine picked the band The Alabama Shakes. ” I heard [the lead singer of Alabama Shake’s] Brittany’s voice and I just started smiling. And he saw me smile, so he relaxed, and we just started dancing. Nobody was showing off. Nobody was trying to get the gig. We were just in a space dancing. I looked over and Michael Showalter, our director, was beaming. Spark!”
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