Anne Hathaway: backlash over her Oscar Win
The reaction towards Hathaway’s Oscar-win didn’t go the way the actor might have hoped.
The speech she gave on stage after her victory inspired vitriol online that piled on the superstar. But Hathaway asserted that public speaking isn’t her strength, which might have been why some didn’t enjoy the way she presented herself on stage.
Hathaway agreed that she wasn’t being her authentic self at the time, but not for the reasons others believed.
“I couldn’t tie this moment to what I really wanted to say,” she said in a 2014 interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
Her perceived lack of authenticity, however, would also later cost her a couple of film roles.
“I had directors say to me, ‘I think you’re great. You’re perfect for this role, but I don’t know how audiences will accept you because of all this stuff, this baggage,’” Hathaway recalled.
It was her work in Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar that put her career back on track.
“Once it was announced that I was doing Interstellar, thankfully the phone started ringing again,” she said.
Anne Hathaway has lost out on roles for not being sexy enough?
Hathaway had already encountered being turned down for roles that fit her even before the Oscar backlash. Hathaway recalled filmmakers turning her down because she lacked the right kind of appeal for what they were looking for.
“A lot of people have told me, ‘You’re not this and so can’t play that,’ and I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve been told I’m not sexy,” she said.
But Hathaway felt such responses showed lack of imagination, and underestimation of her acting abilities.
“I’m a lot of things. Just because I don’t wear my sexiness overtly doesn’t mean that I can’t become that girl for a role. That’s what I do; I become things. Use your imagination, buddy.’
“So in terms of not listening to what other people told me about who I was as an actress and then really pursuing it, I think I’ve been daring in that way,” she said.
