Hollywood icon Anne Hathaway was told in her early days of working as an actress that she really did not have any sex appeal.
And in the April cover of Vanity Fair magazine the 41-year-old actress said that was just plain silly.
‘I was like, “I’m a Scorpio. I know what I’m like on a Saturday night,”‘ she told the magazine as she graced the cover in a black bra with her hair up.
But she added things were different 20 years ago.
‘The male gaze was very dominant and very pervasive and very juvenile,’ added the Oscar winner who admitted that she worried about she came off to the world.
The star – who is promoting her new romantic comedy The Idea Of You about an older woman who hooks up with a younger pop star – played the part of a femme fatale for photographer Norman Jean Roy for the publication as she modeled black leotards and a nearly see through dress.
Hollywood icon Anne Hathaway was told in her early days of working as an actress that she really did not have any sex appeal. And in the April cover of Vanity Fair magazine the 41-year-old actress said that was just plain silly. ‘I was like, “I’m a Scorpio. I know what I’m like on a Saturday night,”‘ she told the magazine
The former teen star told writer Julie Miller that she used to be full of anxiety which caused her problems on movie sets – she is known for the movies The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada
The former teen star also talked her mental health.
She told writer Julie Miller that she used to be full of anxiety which caused her problems on movie sets – she is known for the movies The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada.
And the star added that she felt ‘humiliation’ too much.
She also said she was grateful to director Christopher Nolan for believing in her and giving her a beautiful movie that proved her acting chops.
She starred in his 2014 movie Interstellar.
The former stage star also said that she was told she needed to ‘protect herself’ at all costs, but now she is ‘not armored’ as in she does not have a public shield, she said in a revealing sit down with the Oscar winning actress.
Anxiety used to eat her up.
‘Part of the way I can tell myself that I am okay is by having such a complete level of preparation that if I get a critical voice in my head, you can quiet it down by saying that you did everything you could to prepare.’
Early in her career, she says ‘I had a horrible anxiety attack and I was by myself and didn’t know what was happening. I certainly couldn’t tell anybody, and it was compounded by thinking I was keeping set waiting. Now I feel much safer going to someone in charge, pulling them to the side, and explaining, “I’m going through this right now.”
‘Most people will sit there with you for the 10 minutes it takes for you to come back down.’
And the star – who is promoting her new romantic comedy The Idea Of You about an older woman who hooks up with a younger pop star (pictured) – added that she felt ‘humiliation’ too much
Hathaway with her Idea of You costar Nicholas Galitzine at the film’s premiere at SXSW at The Paramount Theater on March 16 in Austin, Texas
She has a way to cope now: ‘I make a lot of my lifestyle choices in service of supporting mental health. I stopped participating in things that I know to be draining or can cause spirals.’
The brunette beauty said that she was told to be very careful when she was younger.
‘All the advice that you’re given is to protect yourself,’ Hathaway tells Vanity Fair.
‘Everybody’s dangerous and everybody’s trying to get something from you.’… People were advising me that I armor myself and keep that distance, and that I have two selves…I found that terribly confusing so I don’t do it that way. I’m not armored.’
And she touched on those years she was slammed online for being prissy.
‘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,’ Hathaway said.
‘I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect and my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.’
For many years Anne was a joke online with trolls attacking her left and right for almost nothing.
‘Humiliation is such a rough thing to go through,’ she said.
The former stage star also said that she was told she needed to ‘protect herself’ at all costs, but now she is ‘not armored’ as in she does not have a public shield, she said in a revealing sit down with the Oscar winning actress; Anne is also in Mother’s Instinct with Jessica Chastain
‘The key is to not let it close you down. You have to stay bold, and it can be hard because you’re like, “If I stay safe, if I hug the middle, if I don’t draw too much attention to myself, it won’t hurt.”
‘But if you want to do that, don’t be an actor. You’re a tightrope walker. You’re a daredevil.
‘You’re asking people to invest their time and their money and their attention and their care into you.
‘So you have to give them something worth all of those things. And if it’s not costing you anything, what are you really offering?’
The headline of the story is Anne Hathaway on Intensity, Anxiety, and Refusing to Hide Her True Self and is in the April issue.
She also shared she has really come around in her 40s: ‘This is the first time I’ve known myself this well. I don’t live in what others think of me. I know my own mind and I am connected to my own feelings.
‘I’m way quicker to laugh now.’
And she talked her new movie: “The idea of anything you say being picked to define you is daunting,” she says. She’s not as serious as interviews make her seem, she tells me. But as we first start talking at least, she’s definitely careful—present and engaged but also pausing to mentally scan answers for web-flammable sound bites before sharing them. “You don’t want to say anything to provoke any kind of reaction, but you also don’t want to say something that could be misinterpreted,” she says as we begin. “I’m feeling a little goldfishy.”
Read the full story by Julie Miller in Vanity Fair’s April issue and on VanityFair.com.
She was photographed by Norman Jean Roy for Vanity Fair.
