Anne Hathaway reveals the inappropriate question a reporter asked her when she was 16

From Jacinda Ardern to Nicole Kidman, many famous women have faced inappropriate questions throughout their careers.

A sexism which Anne Hathaway has also been the subject of, and this, from the age of 16 years.

Coming to promote the film

, by director William Oldroyd, at the Sundance Festival, on Saturday January 21, the actress thus evoked, during a round table, an incident that occurred at the beginning of her career, as revealed by

.

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"Are you a good girl or a bad girl?"

"I just remembered one of the very first questions I was asked when I started my acting career and had to do interviews: 'Are you good or bad? girl?” she revealed.

I was 16 years old.

My 16-year-old self wanted to respond with this movie,” she said, referring to

.

Anne Hathaway said she decided to make this film after seeing

(2016), a film by the same director, in which Florence Pugh plays a woman trapped in a marriage with a much older man.

A gripping thriller

“I found his work extraordinary, she continued.

I saw it as a study of the difficulties faced by women, it really, really touched me deeply, and I felt that Will was a director who could be trusted to tell complicated stories, especially about women."

Eileen

, the filmmaker's latest feature film, chronicles the romance between a doctor (Anne Hathaway) and a secretary (Thomasin McKenzie), often belittled and forced to take care of her alcoholic father.

The two women, who work in the same prison, will end up committing irreparable harm.

A thriller unveiled on Saturday January 21 in the United States, and whose French release date has not yet been revealed.