Anne Hathaway describes Nolan as the “angel” who saved her career when no one wanted to hire her because of the ridicule she received on the internet.

“When you do everything right and society hates you for it, that's Anne Hathaway syndrome,” read the subtitle of an op-ed published in

BuzzFeed

in 2015, titled

Anne Hathaway Can't Win

. Public opinion turned against the American actress in the period before and after she won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2013 for her role in

Les Misérables .

-Two years earlier she co-presented the gala with James Franco and has gone down in history as one of the most uncomfortable due to her lack of chemistry, which also earned her harsh criticism. “When you work hard, when that work is rewarded, when your body and your beauty match social standards, when you check all the boxes, and yet everyone tells you that you are doing it wrong, that is Anne Hathaway syndrome.” ", the article explained, suggesting that so much perfection repels and that "the things we value in men (power, drive, decisiveness) are the things we stigmatize in women." Now it is

Vanity Fair

that, nine years later, has reminded these words to the actress, who stars on the latest cover of the magazine's American edition. “Even though I had won an Oscar, many people didn't give me roles because they were very worried about how toxic my identity had become on the internet,” confesses Hathaway (Brooklyn, 41 years old) in the interview published this Monday, March 25. .

After giving life to Fantine in

Les Misérables

,

Hathaway stopped having leading roles. Today she identifies that period of her career as the one that marked “a personal minimum.” It was when she gave voice to Jewel, a blue macaw, in the animated film

Río 2

(2014) and participated in the comedy

Don Peyote

(2014), which accumulated countless negative reviews on all platforms, among other small works. Until “an angel” appeared, as she herself defines it. An angel named Christopher Nolan. “I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who didn't care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I've ever had in one of the best movies I've ever been a part of,” the actress acknowledges in the interview about her performance as NASA scientist Amelia Brand in the 2014 space epic

Interstellar

.

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Anne Hathaway confesses the insecurities she suffered in her beginnings

It was not the first time he worked with the director who swept the Oscars in 2024 with

Oppenheimer

. He was already under his command in 2012 in the film

The Dark Knight Rises

, in which he played Catwoman. But it was two years later when the actress felt truly grateful for that trust that she did not receive from the public and that she had affected in the industry. “I don't know if he knew he was backing me at the time, but he had that effect. And my career didn't lose momentum the way it might have if he hadn't had my back,” she says of Nolan.

Actress Anne Hathaway, actor Matthew McConaughey (L) and director Christopher Nolan attend the Asian premiere of 'Interstellar' on November 10, 2014 in Shanghai, China.VCG (Visual China Group via Getty Ima)

In 2021, Hathaway told

The Sun

that that period of her life in which she was being harshly criticized on social media forced her to develop a self-confidence that she would not have built otherwise. In this new conversation with

Vanity Fair

, however, she assures that she “doesn't like to remember that time when people made fun of her.” “Humiliation is a very hard thing to go through. The key is not to let it shut you down. You have to be bold, and it can be difficult because you think, 'If I stay safe, if I hug the middle, if I don't draw too much attention to myself, it won't hurt.' But if you want to do that, don't be an actor. You are a tightrope walker. You are a daredevil. You are asking people to invest their time, their money, their attention and their care in you. So you have to give them something worthwhile. And if it's not costing you anything, what are you really offering?” reflects the interpreter.

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At the age of 20, Hathaway was already known for her role as Mia Thermopolis in

Surprise Princess

and more than two decades later, today she has no shortage of work. Her most immediate project is as the protagonist of the romance

The idea of ​​having you

, which will premiere next May 2 on Prime Video, where she plays a 40-year-old single mother who begins an unexpected romance with the 24-year-old singer of the

boyband

More famous of the moment.

When Anne Hathaway goes viral now, it's usually to praise her. One of the last times was during Paris fashion week, when the actress was recorded dancing and singing to the rhythm of

Lady Marmalade

in a nightclub in the French capital. As she confesses in

Vanity Fair

, she said to herself: “I'm in a nightclub and I'm dancing and this is the world. Don't stop, don't act. Stay where you are because you feel very good.” Her unapologetic happiness has been viewed more than 20.7 million times on TikTok.