Anne Hathaway opened up this week about her expertise “again within the 2000s” being requested to kiss “ten guys” for a chemistry learn.
“I used to be instructed, ‘We have now ten guys coming as we speak and also you’re solid. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I assumed, ‘Is there one thing mistaken with me?’ as a result of I wasn’t excited,” Hathaway instructed V Journal. She didn’t specify what undertaking the audition was for.
“I assumed it sounded gross,” she continued. “And I used to be so younger and terribly conscious how simple it was to lose every thing by being labeled ‘troublesome,’ so I simply pretended I used to be excited and received on with it.”
Hathaway stated this observe was “thought-about regular” in the course of the early aughts. “It wasn’t an influence play, nobody was making an attempt to be terrible or harm me,” she stated. “It was only a very totally different time and now we all know higher.”
For her new movie, The Thought of You, Hathaway served as a producer — and performed her chemistry reads a bit otherwise.
“We requested every of the actors coming in to decide on a music that they felt their character would love, that they might placed on to get my character to bop, after which we’d do a brief little improv,” she stated. “I used to be sitting in a chair like we had are available in from dinner or a stroll or one thing, we pressed play, and we simply began dancing collectively.”
The movie, primarily based on the 2017 novel of the identical identify by Robinne Lee, tells the story of a 40-year-old single mother (Hathaway) who falls for a 24-year-old worldwide pop star performed by Nicholas Galitzine.
Throughout his audition, Galitzine picked a music by The Alabama Shakes, Hathaway recalled. “It was simply simple. I heard [lead singer] Brittany’s voice and I simply began smiling. And he noticed me smile, so he relaxed, and we simply began dancing. No one was exhibiting off. No one was making an attempt to get the gig. We had been simply in an area dancing. I appeared over and Michael Showalter, our director, was beaming. Spark!”
The Thought of You is about for a streaming launch on Prime Video on Could 2.