Anne Hathaway
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Anne Hathaway this week recounted her experience kissing „ten guys” for a chemistry class in the „2000s.”
„We have ten people coming today, and I'm told you're acting. Aren't you excited to engage with them all?' And, 'Is there something wrong with me?' Because I'm not excited,” Hathaway said V magazine. She did not specify which project the audition was for.
„I thought it sounded gross,” she continued. „I was very young and very aware of how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled 'tough,' so I pretended to be excited and just kept going.”
Hathaway said the practice was „considered normal” during early humans. „It's not a power game, nobody's trying to hurt me or hurt me,” he said. „It's a very strange time, and now we know better.”
For his new film, Your ideaHathaway served as a producer—and treated their chemistry a bit differently.
„We asked each of the actors to pick a song that they felt their character would love, and they'd make my character dance, and then we'd do a little improv,” he said. „I was sitting in a chair like we'd just come from dinner or a walk or something, and we played and we started dancing together.”
Based on Robin Lee's 2017 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a 40-year-old single mom (Hathaway) who falls for a 24-year-old international pop star played by Nicholas Galitsyn.
During her audition, Kalichine chose a song by The Alabama Shakes, Hathaway recalled. „It was easy. I asked [lead singer] Brittany's voice and I started laughing. He saw me smiling so he relaxed and we started dancing. No one showed up. No one is trying to get a kick. We were dancing in space. I turned around and our director Michael Showalter was beaming. Spark!”
Your idea It is set for a streaming release on Prime Video on May 2.