Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries) makes surprising revelations about Screen Chemistry tests in her auditions

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Anne Hathaway made surprising revelations about practices used by the film industry at the beginning of the millennium.

Anne Hathaway is one of the most recognizable faces in the world. The American actress began her career in young roles, such as in the films “The Princess Diaries” alongside Julie Andrews (“The Sound of Music”, “Mary Poppins”), Héctor Elizondo (“Pretty Woman” , “Runaway Bride”) and Caroline Goodall (“Survive”, “The Bodyguard and the Killer’s Wife”), or in “Ella Enchanted” with Hugh Dancy (“Hannibal”, “Downton Abbey: A New Age” ), Cary Elwes (“Saw”, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare”) and Joanna Lumley (“The Wolf of Wall Street”, “Corpse Bride”).

Over time, Hathaway made her transition to more mature roles such as in “Brokeback Mountain” with Heath Ledger (“The Dark Knight”, “10 Things I Hate About You”), Jake Gyllenhaal (“Nightcrawler – Reporter of the Night”, “Donnie Darko”) and Michelle Williams (“Manchester by the Sea”, “My Week with Marilyn”), “The Devil Wears Prada” alongside Meryl Streep (“Little Women”, “Only Murders in the Building”), Emily Blunt (“Edge of Tomorrow”, “Oppenheimer”) and Stanley Tucci (“The Spotlight Affair”, “Citadel”), “The Dark Knight Rises” with Christian Bale (“Amsterdam”, “Thor : Love and Thunder”), Tom Hardy (“Inception”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”) and Gary Oldman (“Zero Dark Thirty”, “Slow Horses”), or “Les Miserables” alongside Hugh Jackman (“Logan”), Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”) and Amanda Seyfried (“The Cute and the Terrible”).

Anne Hathaway in “Locked Down” | © HBO Portugal

One of the most recent projects Anne Hathaway is the film “The Idea of You”, based on the book of the same name by Robinne Lee from 2017, where we follow the story of a 40-year-old single mother who falls in love with a 24-year-old pop star. The cast includes Nicholas Galitzine (“Red, White and Blue Bloods”), Ella Rubin (“Gossip Girl”), Annie Mumolo (“The Best Bachelorette”), Reid Scott (“Veep”) and Perry Mattfeld (“ In The Dark”). This feature film will arrive on Prime Video on May 2nd.

During an interview for V Magazine, Anne Hathaway revealed his experiences with auditions and chemistry tests with other actors. At the beginning of the millennium, during an audition the actress was told that she had to kiss ten boys for chemistry tests. “I was told, ‘We’ve got ten guys coming in today and you’re already in the squad. Aren’t you excited to kiss them all?’. And I thought: ‘Is there something wrong with me?‘. Because I wasn’t excited.”

Hathaway followed up with, “I thought it sounded weird. And I was young and I knew how easy it was to lose everything because I was considered ‘difficult’, so I pretended to be excited.” This practice was apparently normal at that time.

The actress later made the comparison with today, especially considering that Hathaway He was also one of the producers of “The Idea of You” and auditioned several actors: “We asked the actors to choose a song that their character would like, which they played to make my character dance with them, and then We did a little improvisation.”

When Galitzine At his audition, the actor chose a song by The Alabama Shakes and very quickly both Galitzine and Hathaway relaxed and there was a spark as they danced.