Anne Hathaway is reflecting on her emotional response to first screening The Concept of You at SXSW earlier this 12 months, and the way the reception to the rom-com reminds her of the response she obtained to The Princess Diaries in 2001.
Earlier than its purple carpet in New York on Monday, The Concept of You world premiered in Austin in March, the place Hathaway was in tears after the screening and advised the gang, “You haven’t any thought the reward that you just’ve simply given us together with your responsiveness, by being so related to each little nuance on this. I’ll always remember this screening.”
Trying again, Hathaway advised The Hollywood Reporter in New York that the occasion was emotional for a number of causes, one being that “that is one in every of my first streaming films and so I simply knew how particular it was to get to see it with an viewers, as a result of that wouldn’t be the trail that this film was going to take.”
However another excuse, the star continued, was that “I used to be in a movie once I was 17 years outdated known as The Princess Diaries — it got here out once I was 18 — and the premiere of the film felt a lot just like the premiere for this one. After I was 18 years outdated, it was my first premiere so I simply thought that was the best way it really works, and it could go so nicely however that degree of simply prompt viewers love and embracing of it and feeling, I don’t know, that viewers satisfaction, you don’t get that each single time. Generally films are darker, typically films are tougher.”
“This one, we actually made it for everybody and to only really feel everybody like it, I hadn’t had that feeling fairly in that very same approach since The Princess Diaries,” she added. “And now I’m 41 and I understand how to understand it.”
Hathaway stars within the movie as 40-year-old single mother Solène, who begins an surprising romance with 24-year-old pop star Hayes Campbell, performed by Nicholas Galitzine.
Galitzine recalled how of their audition, Hathaway “was so open and so playful and that’s what I like about appearing, that sense of play and collaboration. It’s uncommon that you just get that within the audition course of. And to have somebody who’s such an incredible, unbelievable, enormous star like Annie actually open themselves as much as you, it was very humbling.”
He additionally mirrored on his time at a “boy band bootcamp” to organize to play the lead singer within the band August Moon, joking, “They locked me in a room for hours and so they simply pressured me to bounce over and again and again till I simply engrained it.” He credited choreographer Danny Vitale for serving to him “floor my physique as type of a dancer, in a approach. I’m not a dancer by commerce, I used to be an athlete and I believe eliminating lots of that rigidity was a vital factor and actually simply having the ability to personal a stage and type of command a little bit of a presence, I believe.”
Director Michael Showalter acknowledged the much-dissected similarities between Hayes Campbell and Harry Types on the carpet, telling THR, “I believe there’s comparisons there to be made, there’s comparisons with a lot of public figures, however I believe Hayes touches a nerve. There’s a sense about this character, and these two characters, that I really feel like is one thing that’s very present in our society proper now, whether or not it’s Harry Types or an entire bunch of different attention-grabbing public figures that I might point out and I simply suppose that’s a part of what’s nice about this story.”
The Concept of You begins streaming Thursday on Prime Video.
Neha Pleasure contributed to this report.