Anne Hathaway Lost Roles After Oscar Win Because of ‘How Toxic My Identity Had Become Online’

I’m back to really enjoying her again. I thought she was magnificent “WeCrashed” and should have received Emmy attention for it.

[quote] “I really don’t want to dredge up the past but I did have my monster out there, I did have the internet turn on me and hate me and it was like a whole big thing,” Hathaway said at the time.

[quote] “And it was a really good thing for me personally. You can be incredibly empowered because of those things. So I guess what I’d say is when the bad shit happens, don’t fear it — just go with it, flow with it.”

This is why we hate her.

The bitch sounds painfully unaware of how obnoxious she sounds.

She's an okay actress. She's no Cate Blanchett

I was so pleased when reading the original NYT review of The Devil Wears Prada where they praised everyone's performance except hers- calling her BLAND throughout the movie and insincere.

R2 she actually does sound very aware of how she puts people off, but what is she supposed to do about it? Dwell? The hatred toward her has more to do with those individuals; she's harmless and a good egg.

She has a gay brother and is also extremely gay-friendly.

Um people hated her before the Oscars.

She should’ve won for Rachel Getting Married instead.

I agree R8. All she did was sing a couple of songs and die.

R9 Amy Adams should’ve won for The Master

She really is beautiful, and I like the way she is aging.

She was just so ugly with short hair.

This is what Chelsea Clinton would look like if she were pretty. Both she and AnnE have small heads but big facial features. It works better on AnnE.

I wanted Sally Field to win the year Anne Hathaway won for Les Miz.

It came true.

Now I can’t even recall what she did that caused the backlash.

She was an adult theater kid on steroids leading up to her Oscar and went way overboard in her tactics, including "accidentally" showing her snatch. She was widely mocked because she was insufferable and oversaturated, but deadliest of all, obvious. Good for her for going away for a while, but she brings this up every couple of years when she has to do press for a film as if it happened to her and was not a consequence of how nutty she was acting during that time. I think it is just laziest on behalf or her PR, i.e., they need to find her new talking points.

Then we gays turned on her for the pointy-nipples dress she wore to the Oscars.

If only we could take it all back - -

Wasn’t the pointy nipple dress a last-minute substitution? Something went wrong with her original dress. Not sure why I’m remembering this.

She’s the movie star version of Taylor Swift.

Welp, the "internet was mean to me" talking point wasn't trending well, on to the next pity point. (Released to multiple outlets within the last hour.)

R19: That little cunt Amanda Seyfried stole my look. Hence, I ended up wearing this ugly piece of shit.

R17: Adult theater kid on steroids. I was there.

Her latest angle with bringing this all up again is to tie it to Christopher Nolan. She is using SEO to make her name appears when people search for Nolan who is red hot right now. No matter that the last time he cast her was a decade ago. Wonder how all the other directors who gave her roles at that time (and there were more than a few according to IMDB) feel about Nolan being her angel?

She's doing all this introspection and publicity for The Idea of You, a shitty lifetime movie?

So not unlike the pre Oscar behavior of Jamie Lee Curtis?

[quote]Hathaway was widely mocked online at this time, and she once remembered googling herself after the Oscar win only to see one of the top search results was an article with the title: “Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway?”

That’s hilarious. She was incredibly unlikable. Meghan Markle has now replaced her as world’s most obnoxious woman.

Please die r27, dripping your anti Meghan saliva all over this thread, which has jack shit to do with Anne Hathaway.

She seems like she is self aware.

AnnE after being cast in “The Idea of You”, a crap-looking, sub-Hallmark movie…

[quote] She has a gay brother and is also extremely gay-friendly.

That doesn't make her any less annoying.

I like her as an actress. However, I can barely get through reading an article about her because all of her quotes are therapy speak. Is her therapist also serving as her publicist?

Lots of actresses dredging up their angst from years ago.

Enough!

She wasn't popular after her Oscar win, but lots of actresses have trouble getting roles after winning. It's literally called the 'Oscar curse'.

She won at the tale end of her ingenue years. Win or no, things probably would have slid anyway. She doesn't have comedic chops nor anything else truly unique that propels some actresses in their later years.

[quote] She won at the tale end of her ingenue years

Oh, dear.

The frauen must be her stans because men- gay or straight- don't respond to her.

EVERYONE HATES HATHAWAY.

Remember the egg incident? She’s just giving them more reasons to hate her.

[quote]r19 Wasn’t the pointy nipple dress a last-minute substitution? Something went wrong with her original dress. Not sure why I’m remembering this.

She had a designer dress picked out a month early… then the day before the awards was informed another actress had worn this same dress to another event.

Shaken by the news, Anne picked a Valentino dress… only to have Amanda Seyfried show her a pic of HER dress that night at the Oscar rehearsal. Poor Anne: the dresses seemed too similar to her!

So the next day Prada sent over the pointy nipples dress without doing a fitting, and Anne ended up with … pointy nipples.

I somehow have trouble feeling bad for her. Didn’t she have a long black dress in her closet she could have pulled out?

I prefer her over Emily Cunt.

Her Wikipedia page is exhaustively detailed for a relatively young actress. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else with an “Explanatory Notes” section. Therapist/Publicist/AnnE herself at work?

I will take her over Emma Watson. Or Carey Mulligan.

Amen. Although, time is taking care of Anne and Emma as they mostly fallen off the map. The industry is still pushing Carey hard. She's a decent actress - better than Anne and Emma - just plain as the dickens.

I thought she was the Tasmanian Devil. Turns out she’s just a drunk.

I used to think her Oscar win was terrible until the following year where Lupita Nyong'o won for three minutes of picking cotton.

Anne Hathaway is such a classic beauty. So many of these Hollywood gals are deemed beautiful but she actually is. And a fine actor too.

Brooklyn stand up!

[QUOTE] I used to think her Oscar win was terrible until the following year where Lupita Nyong'o won for three minutes of picking cotton.

I’m not entirely sure that you’ve seen the film if you think that this is all Lupita did on-screen.

R47 just an excuse to get a racial slur in. It’s Datalounge, after all. It is to aging, entitled white sissies as the Serengeti is to scorpions.

I've never understood the hate she gets. She's no more insufferable than most actresses and a less than many.

Lupita is effortlessly ethereal. She exudes class and grace and did an amazing job in 12 Years.

Anne is talented enough, but she was propelled partially by luck and circumstance. The Princess Diaries got her TDWP, which propelled her name even though she was clearly the weak link amongst Streep, Tucci and Blunt - and Brokeback, again outperformed by Ledger to the point of being forgettable. That got her Rachel Getting Married, which was truly a great performance. That got her Les Miz + right place, right age. But, does anyone remember Les Miz for her performance or for Jackman? The she got Interstellar - who would even remember she was in this if not reminded? She's has a ton of stinkers in her bio plus her laughable turn as Catwoman (what the hell was she thinking taking a role that has had so many iconic performances by other actresses?).

Rachel might be the only role in which she really stood out. Even in the Princess Diaries she played second fiddle to Andrews and Elizondo. She just doesn't register and should feel grateful for all the success she has had.

R50 You sound like an idiot. How the hell was she outperformed by Ledger when have no scenes together and she is Gyllenhaal’s characters wife. She played her part actually quite brilliantly. All 4 leads were very very good in BM.

[quote] Anne Hathaway Was Told She Had Zero Sex Appeal in Hollywood, but She Refused to Listen: ‘I’m a Scorpio. I Know What I’m Like on a Saturday Night’

Anne Hathaway revealed in her new Vanity Fair cover story that she was told she had zero sex appeal when she was a young actor just starting out in Hollywood. Not that she ever bought into the claim: “I was like, ‘I’m a Scorpio. I know what I’m like on a Saturday night,’” she said.

Hathaway started her career as a teenager, filming her breakout role in Disney’s “The Princess Diaries” when she was 17 years old. She said the cultural definition of what it means to be sexy was much more narrow during her early days of Hollywood stardom than it is now.

“The male gaze was very dominant and very pervasive and very juvenile,” Hathaway said, noting that she her feelings are far more important in the film and television business nowadays than her physical appearance.

Hathaway’s latest role is that of single mother Solène in “The Idea of You.” The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name from Robinne Lee and centers on the blossoming and unexpected romance between 40-year-old Solène and the 24-year-old lead singer of the world’s hottest boy band (played in the film by Nicholas Galitzine). Hathaway was drawn to the film because it shows it’s never too late for a woman to come of age. The film is also sex positive.

“It’s not like one healthy, consensual female orgasm (okay, multiple) is going to change the world,” Hathaway wrote in a note to Vanity Fair, “but I’m really happy to be part of a story that takes pleasure in female pleasure.”

“The Idea of You” premiered to strong reviews out of SXSW. Variety‘s Peter Debruge wrote in his review: “Hathaway’s rockin’ single-mom character doesn’t need a boyfriend, much less a boy-band fling to fulfill her. But her on-and-off romance with Nicholas Galitzine’s smitten pop star feels like one for the ages… the chemistry between Hathaway and Galitzine feels real.”

[QUOTE] You sound like an idiot. How the hell was she outperformed by Ledger when have no scenes together

I’m not the person to whom you were directing this, but Heath and AnnE did indeed have a scene together. Their phone call scene which is probably her best moment in the film.

Call me when she’s at my level of desperation.

[quote]R52 Hathaway noted that her feelings are far more important in the film and television business nowadays than her physical appearance.

Yes, because that’s what Hollywood is built on. Feelings.

She has screen charisma and she’s finally stopped acting like she’s “Ben Platt’s theater geek older sister who watches drag queens endlessly in her free time” schtick, which was annoying. None of her contemporaries have anywhere near as much Hollywood glamour as she does (Carey Mulligan, plastic and flat Emily Cunt, flat chested Emma Stone, fattie fat Reese Witherspoon, Rachel McAdams, Saorise Ronan, fugly Florence Puke, overrated Scarlett Johansson, shorty Natalie Portman). Hathaway, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, and Jessica Chastain are the only female stars that can be considered Hollywood sirens.

Hi, AnnE's gay brother at R56!!

Welcome to Datalounge!

In what universe is Reese fat?

R56 Are you the Sydney Sweeney troll?

I never understood why all of the sudden everyone disliked her so much. She's a great actress, and so pretty, too.

Emmy Rossum took AnnE's place, after her downfall.

Same looks, except younger.

And less ego/attitude.

Bigger tits, too. And she wasn't afraid to show 'em off!

R56 here, I forgot Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts. They both look like they have penises. The testosterone is getting to be even more pronounced in their 50’s. Box office poison Cate Blanchett resembles a librarian and Jennifer Lawrence is more mall food court employee than Hollywood siren.

Who? Never heard of her. She took no one’s place.

R61, Emmy Rossum is a nobody. She married well and is now a Hollywood director’s wife.

Emmy Rossum?? Oh honey. No.

R58, Reese is short and dumpy. She’s no Bridgett Everett, but there’s a reason Hollywood has her keep her clothes on!

Zendaya is a siren. She was best dressed at the Oscars.

[quote]R62 I forgot Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts. They both look like they have penises. The testosterone is getting to be even more pronounced in their 50’s.

“Are you a boy or a girl?”

“It’s a fair question.”

I detested her on sight. That attitude!

[quote]So not unlike the pre Oscar behavior of Jamie Lee Curtis?

God, no. AnnE wasn't nearly as bad as JLC.

[quote]I've never understood the hate she gets. She's no more insufferable than most actresses and a less than many.

She has some innate quality that just makes her repellent. People automatically find her unlikable, even if they don’t know much about her.

She’s the exact opposite of Jennifer Aniston, who everybody just finds immediately likable.

That’s actually why I liked her performance in “WeCrashed” so much. She played an ultimately rather ordinary woman without a central passion who was fame-adjacent to others (her husband, her cousin Gwyneyh Paltrow, etc.) and not really anything g special on her own. Anne somehow (perhaps partly because of just who she is), knew exactly how to play that and nailed it.

For as annoying & pretentious as Goop is, she seems to find a way to laugh at herself too, like she's in on the joke. I'm guessing part of AH's problem is that she's humorless & can't just laugh the whole episode off as "yeah, there was a time I was insufferable, but Mother Nature eventually put me right in place - and my tits in some other place"(or something like that). Instead, she. just re-hashes an episode that most people don't even recall.

Whoever posted that Anne is name dropping Christopher Nolan for the sake of attention, is correct.

It looks like her Brokeback co-star Jake Gyllenhaal is doing the same:

[quote] Jake Gyllenhaal Says It’s ‘Pretty Cool’ That Christopher Nolan Personally Called to Say He Lost Batman Role: It Motivated Me to ‘Just Keep Going’

Her face annoys me.

[quote] Anne Hathaway had a miscarriage while acting as a pregnant woman onstage

Anne Hathaway has recounted a difficult moment in her journey to motherhood, saying she suffered a miscarriage in 2015 while acting in a play where she had “to give birth onstage every night.”

“The first time it didn’t work out for me. I was doing a play and I had to give birth onstage every night,” the Oscar-winning actress and mother-of-two said in an interview with Vanity Fair published Monday.

Her miscarriage occurred during a six-week run of the one-woman off-Broadway show “Grounded,” according to Vanity Fair.

Hathaway said she “had to keep it real” with her friends when they would visit her backstage after performances. “It was too much to keep it in when I was onstage pretending everything was fine.”

“So when it did go well for me, having been on the other side of it — where you have to have the grace to be happy for someone — I wanted to let my sisters know, ‘You don’t have to always be graceful. I see you and I’ve been you,’” she continued, welling up.

“It’s really hard to want something so much and to wonder if you’re doing something wrong,” she added.

The 41-year-old, who said she has become gentler since becoming a mother, has two children with husband Adam Shulman.

When announcing her pregnancy with her second child in 2019, she wrote in an Instagram post, “It’s not for a movie…#2,” adding: “All kidding aside, for everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies. Sending you extra love.”

Commenting on that moment, the “Les Misérables” star said, “Given the pain I felt while trying to get pregnant… it would’ve felt disingenuous to post something all the way happy when I know the story is much more nuanced than that for everyone.”

“I wasn’t going to feel ashamed of something that seemed to me statistically to actually be quite normal,” she added.

About 10% to 20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the actual figure is likely higher, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Hathaway said she was shocked to learn that many of her friends had gone through similar experiences.

“Why are we feeling so unnecessarily isolated? That’s where we take on damage. So I decided that I was going to talk about it,” she said. “The thing that broke my heart, blew my mind, and gave me hope was that for three years after, almost daily, a woman came up to me in tears and I would just hold her, because she was carrying this [pain] around and suddenly it wasn’t all hers anymore.”

Uh O. Get em Anne. She had to keep it real.

Don’t you just love when millenial yuppie hoes have to keep it real uh 🙄.

All that shit she wrote in R76 about how she had a miscarriage. This is why people hate her. Get over yourself.

Was she homeschooled? Seems like she has no ability to relate to others, like most of the people I know who were homeschooled as children.

She should never give another interview.

Stop making fun of Shakespeare's wife

[quote]Was she homeschooled? Seems like she has no ability to relate to others, like most of the people I know who were homeschooled as children.

She graduated from Milburn HS in NJ, which is one of the top public schools there. Then went on to Vassar but didn't finish.

She's not stupid, but is very verbose and formal in her speech and manner. A bit nervous/anxious too, that comes across. I think she has a ton of esteem issues, like many actresses, but doesn't have the tough exterior armor to handle them as well. She can come across as mannered and self-concious.

I too like her as an actress. In the Ocean film she stole the movie from Blantchett, Bulock et al.

That sais, she is insufferable. Not to the point of avoiding her movies (i now can’t see a movie with Elizabeth Moth for instance) but i avoid anything where she is interviewed. This is easier said than done, i saw clips of her live interview with Vanity fair and for some seconds wondered if it was a parody.

InsufferablE

She's terrific on the screen, she has true star quality. It's a shame that social media almost obliterated her.

I think she’s a terrific actor and great in everything. She was hilarious in WeCrashed.

Interviews badly, unless she's on a light talk show like Ellen or Kelly Clarkson, where her humor can show through. Aging backwards though, looks better and more attractive than she did in her 30s and in her 20s by a mile. Looks good in most clothes, fashionistas like Valentino loved her and Donatella has now apparently taken a shine to her and made her a muse.

I never understood why people hated her. People were annoyed by her corny behavior but I didn’t realize it was that rough for her.

I think she’s fine. Her performances aren’t that memorable to me, though. I only really remember her in The Devil Wears Prada, and that’s because she’s in so much of it.

She’s not exactly vibrant.

Her sister Jane wasn’t a raving beauty, but she could pull dick sometimes from Uncle Jed

She also had to deal with her criminal BF/ Husband. Producing companies/studios don't want that so they wouldn't hire her. The upskirt incident too. I like her and think she's a good actor but social media perception could kill a movie if your leading lady is problematic in their personal life.

Can’t stand her. Giant mouthed theater dork.

R87, she has no humour , that is mainly her problem, she takes herself too seriously. I don’t think thr detracts how fine an actress she actually is. We unfortunately love in a culture where actors and actresses not only have to act but be constantly interviewed, probed and have to pontificate on a lot of things. Is is a fine thread and one doesn’t do too well. She is not alone in this but she definitely doesn’t do it well.

She’s not exaggerating. She was regularly eviscerated on DL in the early 2010’s.

I really can’t stand her.