Anne Hathaway isn’t letting a little Oscars bad buzz keep her down. While she didn’t get the brunt of the bad reviews that her cohost James Franco received, she tells Harper’s Bazaar that she “doesn’t see a downside” about taking a chance.
“In the grand scheme of things, I got to have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” she tells Harpers. “I met great people, wore beautiful clothes. And I got to put on a show. I don’t see a downside. Anyone who disliked my personality probably disliked my personality before the Oscars.”
She did say that when Franco described her hosting hustle as ‘a Tasmanian Devil’ to David Letterman, she sent him a few emails to give him a more complimentary thing to say about her next time.
“I let James know that a whirling dervish is a more flattering comparison than a Tasmanian devil. I called him, and we e-mailed a bit.”
Hathaway, 28, comments on her tendency to be a people pleaser and how she’s moving away from that.
“There’s something very addictive about people pleasing,” she says. “It’s a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. It’s one of the reasons that relationship ended. I wasn’t able to grow or foster anything. I think a lot of girls have that story. It’s a big moment when you step away from that and say, ‘I’m going to be exactly who I am. And I’m going to be brave enough to only be with someone who wants me the way I am.’”
Anne’s taking on the iconic role of Catwoman in the next Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. Julie Newmar, Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry and Eartha Kitt have all donned the sexy suit and seductively purred their way into the collective memory of movie goers around the world so how is Hathaway taking on the role? With an intense physical preparation.
She has been working out five days a week — rigorous exercise and stunt training followed by an hour and a half of dance. “I’ve always thought that skinny was the goal, but with this job I also have to be strong,” she says. Anne has always been slim, but if you look at clips of her in her early 20s, when she made The Devil Wears Prada and Brokeback Mountain — films that first gave a clue of her dramatic range — the difference is she stands taller now and with more confidence.
The Hathaway issue is on sale July 12th.
More photos of Anne’s photo shoot are inside. (Read the article)
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