In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, actress Anne Hathaway revealed that director Christopher Nolan saved her career in Hollywood.
According to the artist, Nolan didn't care how much her image was repudiated online and decided to invite her anyway, after she won an Oscar in 2013, to take part in the film he was producing - none other than the acclaimed Interstellar.
Hathaway, who has worked in the industry since she was 17, told the magazine that at the time she was repeatedly ridiculed by the public and the press, and was even the subject of an article entitled "Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway?"
Hated on the Internet. Why?
Since the late 2000s and early 2010s, when she was experiencing one of her most fruitful moments on the silver screen, Anne Hathaway has been the target of offensive comments on the Internet, which claimed that the actress was an "affected" woman.
The rumors arose not exactly because Hathaway had said or done anything that "proved this condition", but because the artist had an unnatural image that exuded conceit, the internet users said.
In the US especially - a country where these attacks have always been more intense - Anne was associated with a common American school archetype: that of the annoyingly perfectionist girl. For many people, it didn't matter exactly what the actress said or did on screen, but rather the supposedly restrained and almost "bureaucratic" image she conveyed in her career.
This view reached its apex in 2013, when the actress was awarded the Oscar and her critics earned the nickname 'Hathahaters ' - which became a very popular hashtag on social media.
At the time, the Academy's choice made rumors about her personality gain even more traction, especially since, at the same time, Hollywood was falling in love with someone who was the exact opposite of the actress.
Comparisons with Jennifer Lawrence
In the early 2010s, Hollywood was in love with Jennifer Lawrence. The actress, protagonist of the Hunger Games franchise and star of the feature film The Good Side of Life, was unquestionably America's current "sweetheart", acclaimed by all.
Fun, spontaneous and with a freshness that is hard to see in industry artists, Lawrence was seen as the perfect antithesis of Hathaway. A comparison that gained even more strength at the fateful Oscars in 2013, when Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress for 'Les Misérables' and Lawrence was awarded Best Actress for 'The Good Side of Life'.
Although the actresses themselves have never nurtured any kind of rivalry, some of the press, especially the American tabloids, have made a point of emphasizing the differences between the two, going so far as to highlight the "methodical speech" of one in comparison to the fall down the stairs of the other (something "human" and unplanned).
These attacks made things even more complicated for Anne after the awards, leading many professionals to deny her roles because of this "gratuitous hatred" on the Internet. It was then that Christopher Nolan crossed her path.
"Christopher Nolan was an angel to me, he didn't care and he gave me one of the most beautiful roles I've ever had in one of the best films I've ever been in," the actress recalled.
"I don't know if he knew he was supporting me at the time, but it had that effect. My career didn't lose momentum as it might have done if he hadn't supported me," she told Vanity Fair.
A veteran actress
More than ten years later, Anne Hathaway is still going strong in Hollywood. After her role in Interstellar, in which she plays biologist and astronaut Amelia Brand, the actress has been involved in numerous other screen successes, such as Eight Women and a Secret or Witches' Convention.
Her bad reputation on the Internet seems to be over for good, not least because the "rivalry" created with artists like Jennifer Lawrence is in the past. The public seems to have been able to understand the actress better.
Currently, the actress has just starred in the film An Idea of You, a romantic comedy born out of a fanfic about singer Harry Styles. Pointed out by many as a turning point in her career, the title has nevertheless been very well received by the now Hollywood veteran, who in an interview at SXSW said: "Idon't want to be labeled and I don't want to be put in a box of what kind of films I should do because of my age, gender or because I won an Oscar. I want to have fun, dammit. That speaks to me".
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