Anne Hathaway is trying again firstly of her profession and recalling a selected audition that she thought was “gross” as she needed to faux pleasure over kissing ten guys.
In a brand new interview, Hathaway says that within the 2000s, it was “regular” to ask actors to make out with potential co-stars throughout chemistry exams.
“Which is definitely the worst method to do it,” she informed V Journal. “I used to be informed, ‘We’ve got ten guys coming at the moment and also you’re forged. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I believed, ‘Is there one thing unsuitable with me?’ as a result of I wasn’t excited. I believed it sounded gross.”
She continued, “And I used to be so younger and terribly conscious how straightforward it was to lose every little thing by being labeled ‘troublesome,’ so I simply pretended I used to be excited and acquired on with it. It wasn’t an influence play, nobody was making an attempt to be terrible or harm me. It was only a very totally different time and now we all know higher.”
As a producer on The Thought of You, the casting course of to search out her on-screen romantic curiosity, who ended up being Nicholas Galitzine, the strategy for the chemistry check was totally different.
“We requested every of the actors coming in to decide on a track that they felt their character would love, that they’d placed on to get my character to bounce, after which we’d do a brief little improv. I used to be sitting in a chair like we had are available from dinner or a stroll or one thing, we pressed play, and we simply began dancing collectively,” she stated.
Galitzine picked The Alabama Shake and Hathaway stated the method “was simply straightforward” and the remaining is historical past.