Anne Hathaway is set to star in the highly anticipated rom-com “The Idea of You,” alongside Nicholas Galitzine, which is premiering on May 2 on Prime Video. However, she is coming from praised roles in movies such as Eillen and She Came To Me. But, despite all her recent successes, the actress still remembers when the Internet was against her and that cost her several roles.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Hathaway, 41, said that Christopher Nolan was an “angel” for casting her in his highly-acclaimed sci-fi drama “Interstellar,” despite the online hate she was receiving at the time. She explained that “a lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online.”
“I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of,” she said. Then, she add: “I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect.” But, why did people hate Anne Hathaway so much? We breakdown the reasons.
The reason people hate Anne Hathaway back in 2013
Back in 2013, Hathaway was achieving incredible success during the Awards Season. winning a Golden Globe, a SAG, a BAFTA and the Academy Award for her supporting role in “Les Miserables.” However, just in the same vein that people are now criticizing Bradley Cooper for “wanting it so bad,” the Internet decided that she was “inauthentic,” and every little action added fueled the discourse of the so-called “Hathaters.”
Hathaway was (basically) disliked for being “too perfect” and “too happy,” and, of course, for enjoying her own success, a story, sadly, too far common in Hollywood. In her cover story for Vanity Fair, they quote a 2015 Buzzfeed article that sums it up: “When you do everything right and society hates you for it, that’s Anne Hathaway Syndrome.”
However, in her speech for ELLE’s 29th Annual Women in Hollywood at the Getty Center, Hathaway had already talked about how she overcame the online vitriol. “Ten years ago, I was given an opportunity to look at the language of hatred from a new perspective,” she said.
“When your self-inflicted pain is suddenly somehow amplified back at you at, say, the full volume of the internet… It’s a thing. When what happened, happened, I realized I had no desire to have anything to do with this line of energy. On any level. I would no longer create art from this place. I would no longer hold space for it, live in fear of it, nor speak its language for any reason. To anyone. Including myself.”
Anne Hathaway’s upcoming projects
Apart from “The Idea of You,” Hathaway is set to appear in psychological thriller “Mothers’ Instinct,” remake of the 2018 Belgian film of the same name, along with Jessica Chastain. She will also act opposite Michaela Cole in the upcoming drama “Mother’s Mary.”
