For Anne Hathaway, some aspects of Hollywood have changed for the better.
The actress recently reflected on the early days of her career, when she was sometimes asked to “make out” with actors during chemistry reads in the early 2000s.
“This did happen to me: It was considered normal to ask an actor to kiss other actors to test chemistry, which is actually the worst way to do it,” Hathaway said recently. v magazine. “They told me: ‘Today ten guys come and you are chosen. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them? And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ Because he wasn’t excited. I thought it sounded disgusting.”
Hathaway starred in some of her best-known projects during this time period, including The princess’s Diary, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Secret in the mountain, The Devil Wears Pradaand more.
Despite her apprehension, the actress confessed that she agreed to work with her to avoid being labeled as “difficult.”
“I was very young and very aware of how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘difficult,’ so I just pretended I was excited and moved on,” she said. “It wasn’t a power play, no one was trying to be mean or hurt me. “It was just a very different time and we know better now.”
But the chemistry was read in his last film. The idea of you Reportedly, it was different. He main video The film follows Hathaway’s character, a 40-year-old single mother, as she begins to have a passionate affair with a 24-year-old boy bander.
Hathaway, who is also a producer on the film, recounted the experience she had searching for the actor to play her love interest, the pop star, who they finally found in Money star Nicolas Galitzine.
He explained that, for the chemistry reading, “We asked each of the actors who came to choose a song that they felt their character would love, that they would play for my character to dance to, and then we would make a short film. little improvisation. He was sitting in a chair like we came back from dinner or a walk or something, we pressed play and started dancing together.”
He continued: “We had already met several young people, but I remember laughing when Nick came in because he was ridiculously perfect for the role. I just thought, this is him.”
He praised Galitzine not only for her “lovely” audition, but also for her ability to sing and play the guitar.
“It was just easy,” Hathaway said of her audition. “I have heard [the lead singer of Alabama Shake’s] Brittany [Howard]The voice and I started to smile. And she saw me smile, so she relaxed and we started dancing. Nobody showed off. Nobody was trying to get the job. We were just in a space dancing. I looked over and Michael Showalter, our director, was smiling. Spark – spark!”
The idea of you premieres on Prime Video on May 2.
