Although there is still a long way to go, Hollywood has begun to change certain practices that were previously considered normal due to movements like Me Too and Time’s Upwhich shed light on the darkest corners of the film industry.
At 41 years old, and having started working when she was a teenager, Anne Hathaway has experienced this evolution in first person and can speak knowledgeably of the improvements that have occurred in the day by day of the actors. Sometimes these are things that it is incredible that no one had noticed before, and she has a concrete example.
“In the 2000s (and this happened to me) it was considered normal asking an actor to hook up with other actors to check if there was chemistry between them. Actually, It’s the worst way to do it.”he explained in an interview with the magazine v.
“They told me: ‘Ten kids are coming today, and you already have the role. Aren’t you excited to be able to kiss all of them?’ And I thought I must be the weird one, because I don’t feel like doing it at all. It seemed to me that It sounded disgusting.”
At that time, Anne was very young and all too aware of how easy it was to earn a reputation as a difficult actress that could ruin her career in an instant, so she pretended she was as excited as she was told and moved on with the day.
“It wasn’t a power play, “Nobody was trying to be horrible or hurt me,” he added. “Those were other times and now we are more aware of these things.”
Based on her own experience, and taking advantage of her role as a producer, Anne decided change the casting process When choosing the male protagonist of his next movie, The Idea of You, where he plays a divorced woman and with a teenage daughter who falls in love with a singer from a very famous band, sixteen years younger than her.
“We asked each of the actors who came to choose a song that they thought their character would love it, and what I would play to make my character dance, and then we would do a little improvisation. I was sitting in a chair as if we had come from dinner or a walk or something, and we had to put on the song and start dancing together.
That’s how I decided Nicholas Galitzine was the right actor for the role, because in addition to singing and playing the guitar, he also managed to make everyone who was present at his audition fall in love with him.
