Anne Hathaway worried she’d gone “too far” in Eileen
In her Actors on Actors interview with Emily Blunt, Hathaway also said the Ottessa Moshfegh-penned film made her feel "braver" as an actor
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This year, Variety’s annual Actors on Actors series has turned into an interesting exploration of which fears stars had to overcome to deliver a great performance—with an extra sprinkling of praise from the famous friend sitting across from them. For Mark Ruffalo, it was being completely naked on camera in Poor Things. (Don’t worry, he’s still very “bangable” according to Robert Downey Jr.) For Anne Hathaway, who participated in the series opposite her old The Devil Wears Prada co-star Emily Blunt, it was changing her signature brunette locks (even though she infamously had them cut off on camera in Les Misérables), and donning a fabricated accent for the psychosexual thriller, Eileen.
“I think I’ve gone too far this time,” Hathaway recalled saying to a friend while working on the film, in which she plays an alluring and mysterious psychologist named Rebecca. “Oh God, I’m blond and I invented an accent. I’m not basing it on anyone except for my own imagination. This is the way I saw her, and I feel like I’ve gone too far.”
Despite Hathaway’s reservations, the performance worked at least for Emily Blunt, who said her friend was “so sexy in this movie… it’s crazy.” (These actors really love talking about how hot each other are, huh!) She also shouted out how cool it was that Hathaway’s character opens a bottle of wine with a shoe in the movie, which does, objectively, sound pretty cool.
For Hathaway, none of this would have been possible without the support of director William Oldroyd, who she called “a giggle of a person” despite the fact that he’s apparently “delighted by darkness,” something that sounds like a major prerequisite for working on this particular film. “We would have so many complicated scenes to do, and somehow he would dilate time around us,” she said. “I would come out of scenes in a blackout thinking that we’d been filming for seven hours, and it had been 50 minutes. I had to trust him so much because I was stepping so far outside my comfort zone.”
Still, it sounds like it was all worth it in the end. “I enjoyed it,” Hathaway said of the process as a whole. “I feel braver now.”
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She went too far in Havoc.
I’m about the same age as Anne, meaning I was a young and immature man at the time that it was released. I was eager to see it for…reasons…What a terrible, terrible movie that was.
Anne’s are a very fine pair of reasons, though.And yeah, a truly awful movie.
Ooh, thank you for that memory…
I’m going to assume this is a reference to Dexys Midnight Runners and ask no further questions.
At this moment, you mean everything.
ta-loo-rye-ay
Tell me that’s just an odd photo of Blunt and she hasn’t started down the facial fillers path.
When you’re not allowed to age, and it looks like in Hollywood, women still aren’t, you do some desperate things…
Yeah but look at who comes out the best on the back end of their 40s. It’s not the ones who attempt to remain looking 30. And Blunt (and Krakinski) both seem to have good heads on their soldiers. She’s not Megan Fox where 90% of her contribution is looks.
Hathaway’s looking good for someone who married Bill Shakespeare in 1582.
Need to adapt her skin care regimen.
It’s the lead-based makeup she used up until the 1860s, no doubt.
Anybody have an opinion as to whether Eileen is worth reading? I read McGlue and it didn’t do it for me.
Good news for people who perform a certain act every time they see Anne Hathaway.
She’ll never go too far for me. I dare her to try!
“For Anne Hathaway, who participated in the series opposite her old The Devil Wears Prada co-star Emily Blunt, it was changing her signature brunette locks (even though she infamously had them cut off on camera in Les Misérables), and donning a fabricated accent for the psychosexual thriller, Eileen.”I’ve never really considered “having brown hair” a “signature,” but sure.
Well I mean she has had long brown hair her entire career, so it is kind of a signature, in the same way Emma Stone was known for having long red hair.
The magic and mystery of Ottessa Moshfegh eludes me. Just seems like an incredibly mid writer.
Damn it deputy Hathaway you’ve gone TOO FAR this time! Turn in your gun and your badge
She gets results, you stupid chief!
I mean, who can’t open a bottle of wine with a shoe? You don’t always have a corkscrew after all.
Using a sabre is even more fun, but the back edge of a decent 10″ chef’s knife will do it well.Tough to catch all the wine as the bag-in-box ruptures, though.
But did she mail used condoms to her co-stars? I think she could go further