Anne Hathaway recollects inappropriate query reporter requested when she was simply 16

Anne Hathaway has recalled an uncomfortable second that unfolded when she was simply a teen beginning off her Hollywood profession.

Throughout a Q&A session to advertise her new thriller Eileen at Sundance Movie Competition this week, the actress revisited the incident by which a journalist requested her an inappropriate query.

Within the movie, Hathaway performs the titular position of a 24-year-old lady who works in a jail for younger males and lives together with her father, a former police captain who spews verbal abuse her method each day. The actress stated she may relate to her character due to what she went by means of in her youth.

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“I noticed a research of feminine complication that hit me actually, actually deep and I felt like [director] Will [Oldroyd] was a filmmaker that might be trusted to inform difficult tales, particularly about females,” Hathaway stated, as per Selection.

“And that meant an excellent deal to me as a result of I simply remembered one of many very first questions I ever received requested once I began performing and needed to do press was: ‘Are you a superb lady or a nasty lady?’ And my 16-year-old self wished to reply with this movie.”

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On the time, the up-and-coming actress landed the position of Meghan Inexperienced within the Fox TV collection, Get Actual. The present solely lasted for one season, however two years later Hathaway received her large break when she was solid as Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries.

That was solely the start for the star, who went on to win a Finest Supporting Actress Oscar in 2013 for her position in Les Misérables.

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Older and wiser, Hathaway now expertly handles private questions from journalists.

In a 2012 interview with Further, the actress put a reporter in his place when he spent a big chunk of the interview asking her about her physique and needing to be within the “good form” to play Catwoman in The Darkish Knight Rises.

“It wasn’t about being in good form. It was about with the ability to do the stunts and the combating completely,” she instructed him. 

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When he was relentless in his questioning relating to her weight reduction and consuming routine, Hathaway turned the tables. 

“Are you making an attempt to drop a few pounds? What is the deal, man? You look nice,” she requested, catching the reporter off-guard. “No, no severely. We now have to speak about this. What would you like? Are you making an attempt to suit right into a catsuit?”

That is one solution to shut it down. 

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