Anne Hathaway has revealed she missed out on roles after her oscar win due to her ‘toxic’ online identity.
After taking home the best supporting actress Oscar in 2013, the actress was the subject of a hate campaign online as people deemed her annoying and inauthentic.
In her recent cover story with Vanity FairHathaway opened up about how the viral ‘Hathahate’ movement cost her acting roles.
“A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” she told the outlet.
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The Devil Wears Prada The actress credited director Christopher Nolan for casting her amid the social media onslaught in the 2014 sci-fi film, Interstellar,
“I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of.”
According to Hathaway, who had worked with Nolan on The Dark Knight Rises in 2012, her “career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.”
speaking to Vanity Fairthe actress reflected on the ‘humiliation’ she felt over the 2010’s ‘Hathahate’ trolling online, which attacked her seemingly perfect persona.
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“Humiliation is such a rough thing to go through,” she confessed to the publication.
“The key is to not let it close you down. You have to stay bold, and it can be hard because you’re like, ‘If I stay safe, if I hug the middle, if I don’t draw too much attention. to myself, it won’t hurt’,” she said.
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“But if you want to do that, don’t be an actor. You’re a tightrope walker. You’re a daredevil.
“You’re asking people to invest their time and their money and their attention and their care into you. So you have to give them something worth all of those things.
“And if it’s not costing you anything, what are you really offering?”
In her cover story, Hathaway also opened up about her reason for giving up alcohol, which she has spoken candidly about over the years.
The actress said she quit drinking completely as she “knew deep down it wasn’t for me.”
Hathaway is next to star in the 2024 rom-com The Idea of You, where she will play a single mum in her 40s who falls in love with the lead singer of a band.
The actress recently attended the premiere of the film at Southwest Film Festivalwhere she wore a stunning Patou mini dress and reportedly cried at the screening.
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