Anne Hathaway’s career could have been much shorter if she hadn’t landed a role in a cult feature film. Because the actress had decided to stop her career before this opportunity which she was able to seize.
She almost dropped everything. Anne Hathaway was on the verge of giving up his career, just before he was offered a role that restored his faith in his talent, and in a film that was a hit at the box office and which the fans loved. After roles in a series and two films produced by Disney – Princess against her and its sequel A princess wedding – which made her known to the general public, she began to ask herself questions about the follow-up to her career. The one who then starred in The devil wears Prada revealed that when she was offered the role of Lureen Newsome Twist in Le Secret de Brokeback Mountainavailable on Canal +, she was not far from stopping everything. “I just thought I was no good and felt lost. I didn’t know how to communicate with people”she explained in The Jess Cagle Podcast.
The impostor syndrome for Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway also explained that she felt pressure to play alongside actors like Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams and Jake Gyllenhaal: “The movie was so beautiful, so perfect, I thought I was going to ruin it”, she explained about her role in the Ang Lee film. If she was afraid of not being up to it, the actress also revealed that she had adapted her CV to impress the director. She did not know how to ride a horse and yet assured the opposite, thinking she could learn in fifteen days: “I went to a rehearsal in front of 300 extras, all of whom worked in rodeos, and the horse wasn’t doing anything I wanted. And in the end, he threw me down in front of everyone.”
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Anne Hathaway’s career boosted by this film
After his role in Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain, Anne Hathaway has become one of Hollywood’s most versatile actresses. She notably won an Oscar for her role as Fantine in Wretchedappeared a short story alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Love, and other drugsplayed the role of Andy in the hugely popular The devil wears Prada and won a Primetime Emmy Award for her voice role in The simpsons. The actress shared her vision of acting: “I don’t think I will ever stop learning and that means I want to work on as many different roles as possible.”
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