Anne Hathaway revealed she was forced to make out with 10 different blokes during “gross” chemistry tests in the early noughties.
The 41-year-old Oscar winner opened up in a new interview with V Magazine, spilling details about her early days in the acting business. Hathaway, whose first major role in Get Real (1999) came when she was 17, said she felt pushed to follow along with questionable practices, because she didn’t want to “lose everything”.
“Back in the 2000s, and this did happen to me, it was considered normal to ask an actor to make out with other actors to test for chemistry,” she told the publication. “Which is actually the worst way to do it.”
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She added: “I was told, ‘We have 10 guys coming today and you’re cast. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’
“And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ because I wasn’t excited. I thought it sounded gross.”
The Princess Diaries star recalled how she was “terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything by being labelled ‘difficult'” despite being “so young”. She added: “So I just pretended I was excited and got on with it.”
Hathaway admitted the ordeal “wasn’t a power play, no one was trying to be awful or hurt me, it was just a very different time and now we know better”. The star didn’t name the film she was referring to.
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These days Hathaway is a bona fide A-lister, now starring and producing her new film The Idea of You. She plays a single mother in her 40s who falls in love with a much younger male singer.
However, when searching for her male lead, the Devil Wears Prada icon said she didn’t have to snog her way through a bunch of potential candidates.
Instead, she asked the blokes to sing “a song that they would put on to get my character to dance, and then we’d do a short little improv”. Nicholas Galitzine, 29, eventually won the role in The Idea of You, which hits screens next month.
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