“Interstellar” actress Anne Hathaway recalled one method used while casting romantic comedies in the early 2000s which involved her kissing up to ten potential co-stars in one day.
The 41-year-old described the process during a recent interview with V Magazine.
“Back in the 2000s — and this did happen to me — it was considered normal to ask an actor to make out with other actors to test for chemistry. Which is actually the worst way to do it,” Hathaway recalled.
She continued, “I was told, ‘We have ten guys coming today and you’re cast. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ because I wasn’t excited. I thought it sounded gross. And I was so young and terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘difficult,’ so I just pretended I was excited and got on with it.”
“It wasn’t a power play, no one was trying to be awful or hurt me. It was just a very different time and now we know better,” Hathaway added.
The actress is best known for her work after her big break as the lead in Disney’s “The Princess Diaries” in 2001. She went on to work on several other projects, including several romantic comedies such as “Ella Enchanted” (2004), “Bride Wars” (2009), “Valentine’s Day” (2010), and “Love & Other Drugs” (2010).
Hathaway took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013 for her role in the film version of “Les Misérables.”
The actress is currently promoting a new romantic comedy she’s starring in, “The Idea of You.” She said she had not been offered those types of parts for several years.
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“I didn’t notice that it was happening,” Hathaway said during a press conference over the weekend, per Newsweek. “I received a lot of romantic scripts in my 20s, and then in my 30s, I was so focused on my family life and motherhood and trying to find whatever my path was going to be. I didn’t notice I hadn’t been sent a script in a long time.”
She continued, “A part of me was asking the question, ‘Where have these stories gone? Why did they stop?’ These questions, I saw all of these fantastic answers to them in the script and the story, and I just thought, ‘Wow, what an unbelievable sort of meta exploration.’”
