Anne Hathaway covers the new issue of Glamour. I kind of love this shoot! I usually think Annie does the “wispy pale color” thing too often, but it works well here. Plus, I love her hair at this length. It feels like we might be getting the old Annie back! Maybe. Probably not. Anyway, in the interview, Anne chats about how she’s seen an old lady at the age of 32, and she’s up for parts against 24-year-olds and the 24-year-olds keep getting the parts. Huh.
She’s losing roles to younger actresses: “I hate to admit it, but it’s true – there are fewer roles and the competition is just as fierce as ever. I look around at my peers and I’m so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they’re so good and we’re all trying to get the same parts.”
She used to be the younger actress stealing roles from older actresses: “I can’t complain about it because I benefitted from it. When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties and I would get them. And now I’m in my early thirties and I’m like, ‘Why did that 24 year old get that part?’ I was that 24 year old once, I can’t be upset about it, it’s the way things are. All I can do right now is think that thankfully you have built up perhaps a little bit of cachet and can tell stories that interest you and if people go to see them you’ll be allowed to make more.”
Her friends Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain: “I’m trying right now to start a book club with Em and Jessica, because they’re working on a movie together. I said, ‘Let’s all read this book!’ But I’m not working and they are, so it’s not going very well.
On Taylor Swift: “She just seems to be following her heart. I met her – I hope it’s OK to say this – when she and Jake [Gyllenhaal] were together. She was 20 at the time, and we hung out one night. I was like, ‘You are a magnificent creature.’ She was on fire and I’ve watched her become this force of nature.”
Ha, Annie brought some old-school gossip at the end with the Taylor Swift reference! Yes, Taylor and Jake Gyllenhaal dated for a brief three or four months and it was full of apple-picking, cuddlefesting and photo-ops and it was GLORIOUS. I still miss them. I guess Jake introduced Annie to Tay-Tay then. I wonder if Anne was really like “Oh, she’s magnificent!” or if she was like “Um, why are you dating someone SO YOUNG, Jake?”
As for Anne losing out on parts to younger women… I feel like she’s trying to publicly say that it’s fine, that she’s okay with it and put a bow on it somehow. But it’s got to sting when you’re only 32 years old and suddenly seen as “too old” to play certain roles.
Photos courtesy of Glamour Magazine.
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