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5 questions with Anne Hathaway |
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Written by Terry Lawson, MCT
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Thursday, 02 August 2007 |
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One celebrity Web site recently dubbed Anne Hathaway "the anti-Lindsay Lohan."
This is presumably because Hathaway, who earned our attention in the Disney teen movie "The Princess Diaries" and our respect for her performances in "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Devil Wears Prada," consistently exhibits qualities Lohan does not: She's intelligent and articulate, elegant and tasteful, and mature beyond her 26 years. (She has, however, gone where Lohan has not, at least on the screen: Before going to bed with Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback," Hathaway did an even more explicit nude scene in 2005's good girl-gone-bad drama "Havoc." It ended up going straight to video.)
In any case, it is something close to impossible to imagine Lohan in Hathaway's latest role, playing the young Jane Austen in the period romance "Becoming Jane," opening Friday. A work of speculative fiction, "Becoming Jane" suggests that at least two of Austen's six beloved novels, "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility," were inspired in part by her relationship with Tom Lefroy, an apprentice lawyer from Ireland.
Though we had to vie for Hathaway's attention with her chocolate lab Esmeralda, she did spare time for five questions.
QUESTION: Just how rooted in fact is "Becoming Jane"?
ANSWER: Well, we do know from one of the few of Jane's letters that her sister Cassandra didn't burn when she died that she had at least a flirtation with a man named Tom Lefroy, whom she met over one Christmas holiday while Cassandra was away. The biographers tend to disagree about the real extent of the relationship. The movie is fiction, for certain. ... But it's plausible fiction.
Q: Can we assume that you were one of the many Austen fans?
A: You certainly can. I had read all the books when I was younger, but it was a perk of the job to go through them all again. They're so complex, and beautifully drawn, with such real, rich characters. But what's amazing is how deep people get into the books, and while I was researching (the film), I got to understand why. After you go through the biographies, there are all these fictional depictions where Jane is a detective, that sort of thing. My favorite, I think, was this book of short erotic fiction, sort of like the parts left out of the novels: It's called "Pride & Promiscuity."
Q: In all the movie and TV adaptations of "Pride and Prejudice," who's your Mr. Darcy?
A: No offense to Laurence Olivier (who played the role in the 1940 film) or to Matthew Macfadyen, who I thought was really sexy in the latest one (released in 2005), but Colin Firth (star of the 1995 British miniseries) owns Mr. Darcy. He's the man for me.
Q: Did you have any undue difficulty making the transition from teen roles to adult ones? Did it make it harder to get meetings with good directors or get good scripts sent your way?
A: If it did, I was unaware of it. I mean, there have been things I was interested in where the people involved weren't interested in me, but I don't think it was ever a case where I wasn't taken seriously because I had been in a couple of Disney movies. Plus, I just sort of naturally grew into adulthood. I never really played characters that much younger than I was in real life, like Judy Garland or someone.
Q: Your next big part is playing Agent 99 to Steve Carell's Maxwell Smart in the movie version of the classic TV spy spoof "Get Smart!" Were you at all worried about doing a big broad comedy?
A: Gee, I really don't think you could ever make a broader comedy than "Princess Diaries 2." I remember Julie Andrews (her costar in both "Princess Diaries" movies) looking at me during one scene in that film, like 'Can you believe we are doing this?' So the answer is no. I'm having a blast. | Only registered users can write comments.
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