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 advised, ‘We have now ten guys coming right this moment and also you’re forged. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I believed, ‘Is there one thing improper with me?’ as a result of I wasn’t excited,” Hathaway advised V Journal. She didn’t specify what challenge the audition was for.
“I believed it sounded gross,” she continued. “And I used to be so younger and terribly conscious how simple it was to lose every part 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 in a different way.
“We requested every of the actors coming in to decide on a tune that they felt their character would love, that they’d 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, based mostly 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 tune 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 have been simply in an area dancing. I appeared over and Michael Showalter, our director, was beaming. Spark!”
The Thought of You is ready for a streaming launch on Prime Video on Might 2.