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Anne Hathaway covers the December issue of Vogue Magazine, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that Annie really, really wants her Oscar and she thinks Les Miserables is the way she’s going to get it. I do think this is probably her year to win it – especially if she’s nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category. If she shoots for the stars and calls the part “Best Actress” material… then I don’t know. Anyway, the Vogue story is online and you can read it here. It’s very, very heavy on the Les Mis details and there are interviews with nearly everyone involved with the production – it’s kind of cute how much Hugh Jackman loves Anne, and to their credit, it sounds like all of the actors got along really well. As for this pictorial… rough. Very rough. These Annie Leibovitz photos are not good. Some highlights from the interview:
Anne on cutting her hair off: “I love the short-haired lifestyle,” Hathaway tells me with a laugh (she laughs a lot). “It’s awesome that I was able to go for a hike right before I came here to meet you, quickly wash my hair, and now it’s dry.” The only downside, she says, is having to get her hair cut every three weeks. “But I’m turning 30, and—I hope this isn’t obnoxious to say—I feel prettier, and much more myself. I guess I just feel much more satisfied with less now.”
Pres. Obama called Anne “the best thing” in The Dark Knight Rises: “I’m a blusher, and just being inches from him, I went scarlet from the tips of my toes to the tops of my ears.”
Auditioning for Les Mis: “I knew that someone was going to have to go in there and do something pretty special to unseat me,” she says. “Sometimes you leave a room and you feel like maybe you’ve left the door open a crack. This time, I knew that I had slammed it shut behind me.”
Losing weight for the role: Before the start of shooting, she went on a strict cleanse and lost ten pounds, which in the early scenes of the film gives her a gossamer quality. She then took two weeks off and lost another fifteen pounds by following a near-starvation diet, consisting of two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day. “I had to be obsessive about it—the idea was to look near death,” she recalls. “Looking back on the whole experience—and I don’t judge it in any way—it was definitely a little nuts. It was definitely a break with reality, but I think that’s who Fantine is anyway.”
On her wedding: “Oh, my God, I had a blast. Our friends stayed and partied and danced till really late.”
She wants to be a mom: “And now, of course, with me having this beyond-my-wildest-dreams success in my own career—and beyond the success, the joy I take just getting to be an actor—knowing what that must have been like for her to put that aside for the good of her children. Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it’s a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I’ll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can’t wait to meet them.” For now, she feels as if she’s right where she’s meant to be. “I’d feel a little silly and overly dramatic to say that this feels like destiny. But to have this come full circle in such a spectacular way—it’s making me very happy… OK, it feels a little like destiny.”
Dear Academy: Annie WANTS it. She really, really wants it. She talked about her wedding. She talked about babies. She will campaign hard for her Oscar. You better give it to her.
Photos courtesy of Annie Leibovitz/Vogue, slideshow here.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Anne Hathaway
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What the hell have they done to her eyes in the first photo?
I don’t recall eyes ever sitting at that sort of angle …
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MY WORDS EXACTLY! They made her eyes look weird.
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Seriously, so downcast. Weirder with her head tiipped a little like that too.
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They didn’t do anything to her eyes. She usually has makeup on her corners to lift them. She does have kind of sleepy eyes.
I think the pictures are pretty average. Vogue needs to get better photographers. Nothing memorable about the pictures.
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@lisa2: surprised some of the other CB-ers ever noticed her eyes. Britney spears’s eyes are also like that, but I think they are both unconventially (sp) pretty women.
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yeah her eyes looks droopy
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the third picture is what nightmares are made of..it looks like a dead body pulled from a lake!
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HAHA. Oh my gosh, you nailed it. That is a seriously frightening photo.
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That’s what her natural eyes look like. Usually, she has makeup on and does a really good job of making them not look droopy like that. It’s like how you’ve probably never seen Lisa Kudrow’s natural asymmetrical upper lip.
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Was thinking the same thing. Had just looked at the Taylor Swift piece and was shocked that the makeup artist for that shoot managed to make her squinty eyes look like almonds. Then came to this story and my first thought was, Vogue needs another makeup person. Her one eye is drooping, like she had a stroke. Yikes! And the other photos are horrible.
But then I’ve never been a fan of hers. Think she’s highly over rated.
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Horrrrrible pictures!
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agreed. terrible. she looks like Nell.
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Just about choked on my coffee w/the Nell comment – well done.
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^^^^^ that. I was thinking were they trying to make her look bad. very very unflattering.
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US Vogue has been overall tacky and cheap- looking lately. Anna Wintour needs to retire asap and let some young blood bring the magazine into the 21st century.
Also, I don’t know why, but I really can’t stand Anne Hathaway.
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The pictorial is not her best at all, but I did enjoy the interview. I love Anne, and I cannot WAIT to see Les Mis!
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+1 I can ‘t wait to watch the movier either. I do hope she wins an Oscar. Let’s put it this way: If they gave one to Portman, Hathway oughta get one and is really deserved. Annie a better actress, her face does nof scdeam “constipation” in every scene. Go Annie!!!
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Don’t like either frankly. Both over rated.
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Well, she’ll have to duke it out with Amy Adams who is past due and will be on her, I think, 4th nomination.
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Ugh. If we’re picking? Team Amy. At least she doesn’t fill a room with her ego.
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Right on!
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Agreed. I do like Anne but I’d rather see Amy get it.
Amy is intense about every role yet never seems to be trying too hard.
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Auditioning for Les Mis: “I knew that someone was going to have to go in there and do something pretty special to unseat me,” she says. “Sometimes you leave a room and you feel like maybe you’ve left the door open a crack. This time, I knew that I had slammed it shut behind me.”
No one would accuse you of being arrogant, Anne.
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I’m always interested in seeing what Actresses still have to audition for roles and the ones that have roles written specifically for them. Puts things in perspective.
I’m sure she will get her Oscar nom so she doesn’t need to worry or over sell it.
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Meh…I’m not mad at her for that comment. Sometimes after an audition you feel like “I just screwed that up royally” and sometimes you feel like “yeah…I just slam dunked the shit out of that. I wish a bitch would try to take my role”. It ‘s just like that sometimes.
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You’ve never walked out of a job interview and thought “Nailed it. I’m getting that job.”?
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she’s full of herself
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She truly is. I’m surprised she hasn’t gotten Obama’s quote tattooed on her ass yet. Pssst, Anne–The Dark Knight Rises was a MESS. Some of Nolan’s worst work. Being “the best thing” wasn’t actually very much of an achievement.
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Catwoman was useless.
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the dark knight rises was a mess? really? or are you just letting your feelings on anne hathaway colour your vision of a fantastic film?
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Right Evie! I don’t think her performance in Dark Knight was anything magical; an actress just starting out could have nailed that role. But maybe President Obama will give her an oscar stamp of approval as well.
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What!? I think it was the best Batman movie ever.
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That second photo makes me think she should have played the joker.
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So sick of this woman. She was great when she was young but she takes herself SO seriously! Big fat head!
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Agreed.
And what’s with all the pics of her neck? Annie must find her face as unattractive as I do. She needs more face space for her large features.
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+1
I just can’t see anyone finding her attractive, it baffles me. It’s a personal preference thing, most everybody is beautiful to someone.
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Does Vogue hate her? Because those pictures are awful. Unless its part of the Oscar campaign to look awful in movies and pictures for the damn statue
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Well, yes – she was in The Devil Wears Prada….this is Wintour’s payback!!
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Her part won’t be large enough for Best Actress, and she knows she doesn’t stand a chance against Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone) and a few others anyway. It’s going to take more than one sad song scene to win, though. I find her annoying and a tryhard.
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Rust and Bone destroyed me.
Seriously, I was in pieces at the end.
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Seriously. I don’t even like Marion Cotillard and she was awesome in that movie.
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Her part is very small (may not in any other case be even enough for Supporting) but it’s Anne Hathaway and she’s getting a lot of buzz (for a movie that no one has seen yet) so she’ll definitely get her nom.
Btw, Marion Cotillard may have a bit of trouble getting in there too (Best Actress) b/c her movie is a tough sell and many Academy members may be turned off by it and not see it altogether.
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“Buzz” doesn’t mean much these days. There’s studio-generated buzz around pretty much every serious actor that has a project out. Doesn’t mean they actually get a nomination.
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Only Anne Hathaway would say “I turned scarlet from the tips of my toes to my ears”.
You blushed hooker, no big deal.
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LOL! You crack me up. And these pictures suck.
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Oh my god, you made me spit out my soda, hahahahah!!!
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What is wrong with Annie Liebowitz? Are her personal problems getting to her? Those pictures aren’t even close to good and AH looks absurd.
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I think she looks amazing..where have you ever seen her looking better???!!!!
i love that ruffled white shirt with the brocade waistcoat. I would so wear that!
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Just another case of Hollywood pushing an very ordinary looking woman down our throats and trying to convince us she’s gorgeous. Long hair or short, you wouldn’t look twice at her if she was a cashier at Costco.
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Well, you would notice her ginormous teeth, I’m sure. Those can be seen from outer space.
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I have to agree. There are some celebrities I think are a little overrated looks wise, but are definitely extremely attractive. However, I find Anne Hathaway to quite unattractive, plus I really dislike her voice and mannerisms.
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Agree with all of you.
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Agree. I find her unattractive (eyeballs, nose, teeth) & she sure didn’t like her short hair when it was first cut. She was hiding as much as she could.
Can’t comment on her Fantine until I see the movie.
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Yup.
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Amen.
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Why Vogue always choose terrible cover photo? Her eyes look so weird.
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yikes rip a Lady apart much. I dunno i feel like all the time women are like ‘oh there are too many plastic surgery bimbos on tv and movies we need more realistic looking women to represent us’ Well i think Anne hathaway is just that. she may not be the typical uber perfect model actress. But dont her differences make her unique and beautiful like every one of us.
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Yep and so does Whoopi Goldberg.
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Well the pictorial made me laugh.
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Omg, could she possibly look more pretentious??
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Yes, get that Oscar girl!
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I hate Oscar campaigns. By the time the awards get here, I always just want the person who campaigned the least to win.
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Les mis is one of my fave books. I saw it on Broadway too. My expectations are really high for this movie.
She may get the nomination, but it is not her time to win yet. It will take more than lose weigh and short hair for it. But then again, we are talking about Hollywood and the golden award not always go to the best actor.
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My expectations are equally high. I’m glad she talked about how she could not hope to compete with those great singers who have performed the song in the past, so she just went for raw and ugly.
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At least she was humble (or had the common sense) to acknowledge her limitations. Les mis was the only Broadway play that gave me the goose bumps and made me cry. I hope this movie is going to be awesome.
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Yes, she wants the Oscar. My hope is that she deserves it, because I sooooo want this movie to be great. I hope Hugh and Russell deliver performances of a lifetime. I hope Tom Hooper directs an epic film. I can not wait to see it.
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I think we should do a special “Caption This” for the head-thrown-back, legs-spread picture. It’s just too good.
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“Pepsi-Cola, Lana? Ha – try some Cristal, darling!”
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I know she’s an actress, but does she have to be so dramatic? I’ve never much cared for her, but the bits of that interview were so arrogant. And that pictorial sucks. I do not find her attractive & she comes across as insuffurable in real life.
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Arrogant X 20. If that is her Oscar campaign someone needs to tell her STFU. She gives one of the worst interviews. Not her fault but that lose 15 pounds in 2 weeks by starving herself with only bits of oatmeal paste is ridiculous.
I like the cover pic but the rest are laughable. The Les Mis pictorial is horrible. Amanda Seyfried looks like a sherpard girl. The rest look dead behind the eyes.
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She looks like the mad Hatter….
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Terrible pics. Terribly overrated actress. Vogue has gone downhill.
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Anytime, I hear Anne sing “I dreamed a Dream” in the trailers, I start tearing up. I have no doubt in my mind that she will definitely be deserving of an oscar. Only time will tell, as the movie still has another month to go.
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Can Vouge please get another photographer to take their pics, because Annie Leboivitz han’ts been good in a loooong time. The pics are either boring or photoshopped to death were it looks like a weird painting.
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These actors campaign so hard for an Oscar these past few years it’s disgusting. Let the performance speak for itself, there are a lot of actors who’ve won and then you don’t hear from them again
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Exactly. Who is actually ever charmed by these clammy displays of boot-licking and smugness that go on for months? I am not a member of the ‘I Ain’t Too Proud To Beg Association’, which makes me realize that I wish I mattered or had power because if I had the means and opportunity to eliminate these Death By Weinstein pageants (thereby taking out Marchesa because when you sever the head, the body dies) would you be mad at me for exercising it? No. And I wouldn’t just be the hero to like-minded individuals, I’d be my own danged heroine.
You can’t modify your performance one it’s committed to film, you don’t get any do-overs and where’s the sense in promising people something you did? Is that how the time-space continuum works, because I don’t remember any conversations about that last time I was playing the land edition of water polo followed by ‘brunch-tast’ with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and I would have remembered that! Gosh, I think we need another presidential campaign/election to wash the Oscar taint taint taste out of some mouths.
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If she gets an Oscar nom the members of the academy have completely lost their minds!
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Why? She has received one before.
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“…the idea was to look near death,”
That isn’t true either. Like it or don’t even royals in those days were covered in lice and scabs for a variety of reasons. Bad rotten teeth.
Getting a haircut and going on a diet should mean what?
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I’m sorry but sacrificing your hair and losing a bunch of weight does not mean you deserve an Oscar.
I really don’t like Anne. Her high maintenance and superficial behavior rubs me the wrong way. This interview just proves all the more why I don’t like her. She is the arrogant and shallow snobby girl from high school.
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I adore Les Mis (in a very nerdy way)and I do think Fantine is a really important for the story, but she’s in it for like 1/3. No matter how fantastic Anne would be in the role, no way could such a small part give her a nomination for Best Actress, could it?
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She’s a lock for BEST SUPPORTING actress.
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She’s not “a lock” for anything, regardless of you posting it ad infinitum in this thread. lol
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@Lauren : If you actually follow movie blogs, everyone is predicting her.
Unless the movie bombs hard, she’s getting a nod.
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Who campaigns this hard for a supporting nomination. I have nothing against Anne, really, but as a Les Mis fan I’m just wondering why only Fantine is being pushed down our throats by the Les Mis PR-machinery.
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She is not a lock for a nomination. The Academy has to see the movie first.
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How was her wedding “secret” when she sold the pictures to Us Weekly?
And did Annie Leibovitz do this? She and Mario Testino haven’t been good in years, but Vogue insists on hiring them. Ugh.
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The pictures are beyond ugliness. Anne is a decent girl that with the right makeup and styling manages to look pretty. In this case, she looks clownish, a crazy clown.
As for her quotes, the same old unsufferable b*tch
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weird pictures
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@Marianne, “movie blogs”? Are you kidding? You are kidding, right?
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I know studios will never shell out the money but since we can do entire casts in CG for sci-fi purposes, it would be nice if they could digitally emaciate a person instead of these dramatic weight losses. Two thin oatmeal pastes a day is not something any young person should read and aspire to.
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Okay, someone screwed up on those photos…either the photographer or the editor. She has her eyes closed, I don’t get it. As a photographer I would not have considered them. But whatever, artistic license I suppose. The cover is flattering to Anne, however. That’s the only positive I can see.
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Yikes.
She is not photogenic nor are they good photographs. Really bad.
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Call me old fashioned, but I really prefer to see people rewarded for trying hard instead of being rewarded for their sullen self entitlement while wearing borrowed jewelry.
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Oh god, I CANNOT stand this woman.
She REEKS of the teacher’s pet who nobody liked at school…the one who would always be cleaning the blackboard or running errands for them (but then would be mean to the other girls behind the teacher’s back)
She’s a mean goody-two-shoes…
I saw her in The Devil Wears Prada and she, quite frankly, makes me WINCE!
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The multitude of comments on here about people thinking her eyes look weird just shows what someone can do with a great makeup artist. Her eyes aren’t photoshopped, they always look like that. She has a makeup stylist who hides the droop and then she always has her eyes WIDE OPEN in most photographs so it’s less obvious.
I do think they did that on purpose though because Anna Wintour doesn’t like her. I mean, what is that puffy shirt jester vester outfit? All they had to do was tell her it’s ugly chic and I’m sure she was on board.
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I admit to being a fan of Leibowitz and to a lesser extent of Hathaway, but I like these photos. I find them refreshing. They’re certainly simple, but in a good way.
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Well, they’re certainly not re-making theatrical releases of this book enough, maybe someone should try Jane Eyre next. And featuring an actress who admits she’s not a great singer? Frigging asinine. That’s your cue to just read the dang book, instead. Get through all the priest stuff that comes before the entrance of Jean Valjean and it’s clear sailing, but the barcode would still be better than a (literally) de-fanged Anne spewing junk about some baby she doesn’t have for a tacky statue. Can you tell that I *really* hate awards shows and avoid them like the plague? Sometimes, I’m not, but sometimes I’m smart. Free us or let us die, or just hurl a Susan Boyle at this thing.
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I love Anne Hathaway – she gets better every year. She will be here for a long time… and she is wholesomely beautiful. You get that Oscar!!
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Yes, Vogue has gone downhill – can AW stop using it as a hollywood marketing outreach rag and go back to actual fashion, if that’s possible. Naomi, Cindy, Yasmeen, Christy,etc. on the cover from the supermodel era blows Anne Hathaway completely on to US weekly where she belongs.
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she is just gorgeous.
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She does not looks got with short hair. I prefer the long version because it doesn’t call out her features.
I find it funny that she likes her hair because why did she wrap that ugly band aid around her head when she got married? That band aid covered her beloved short hair.
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Explain the allure of this woman to me, because I just don’t get it. I loved “The Devil Wears Prada”, but that’s due to Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci whom I just loved.
And I keep saying it, if they ever do a film about Liza Minnelli, she’s their girl.
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ITA. I don’t mean to keep going on about her apperance but she’s always reminded me of Joan Crawford. But much nicer in an irritating kind of way.
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She has changed a lot in the last few years. She used to be sweeter, more wholesome….I think she is very very ambitious though and it shows in the way she speaks.
Cant stand her ugly husband. Dont “get” the attraction to him at all, AT ALL……
and, normally I find her looks stunningly beautiful….HOWEVER, this shoot is a HOT MESS. Wow, can you make her look any UGLIER????
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I like Anne Hathaway and I’m very excited for les Mis. This girl can sing and I think she’ll knock it out of the park. Did you guys see her appearance on snl this week? She was great and so enthusiastic and happy to be there. I love when they have hosts like that. I wouldn’t mind her getting an Oscar, she’s a good actor who was great in “Rachel Getting Married.”
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She looks like the Joker from Batman.
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I don’t understand her “humor” on SNL; a pregnant woman and a survivor. Where’s this coming from?
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She may be talented but i find her overconfidence about her audition a bit conceited. Plus we all know that oatmeal paste is what she eats everyday. Furthermore, there are plenty of makeup techniques out there to make someone look starved. This is just publicity.
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