Can you believe that we’re still talking about the backlash against Anne Hathaway in late 2012-early 2013? We are. Anne Hathaway went told overboard with her incessant Oscar campaigning and she got what I considered to be some completely justified “backlash” for it. So Annie went away for a little bit, then she tried to do another campaign last year, this time for The Poor Bullied Anne Hathaway Campaign. That one sort of failed too. And now it’s the second half of 2015 and somehow, improbably, Annie is still talking about this. She covers the September issue of InStyle to promote her Nancy Meyers comedy, The Intern, with Robert DeNiro. Here are some assorted quotes from the cover interview:
The 2013 backlash against her: “There was a stretch of my life when I wasn’t comfortable being myself. I didn’t think I was good enough. So I pretended to be someone I wasn’t. I’m so over that now. I just try to be my best self all the time, with some notable late-night lapses.”
The Hathahaters: “For a very long time I felt I was being hunted, and it made me very unhappy.”
She joined Instagram, that’s how comfortable she is now: “There is something great about being able to say ‘I saw this beautiful thing today’ and have people who don’t really care about you get excited by it.”
She’s over it: “In the past few years I’ve been working on changing the script inside my head. Life’s too short to be anyone but yourself. Let the chips fall where they may.”
At least she’s toning down the “pity poor me” rhetoric. Still, are we supposed to believe that Annie is really and truly over it? How can we when she’s still talking about it like this? Here’s what I would love to hear from here: “I was overzealous and caught up in the moment but at the end of the day, I’m an Oscar winner and one of the best actresses of my generation, so suck it.” Right? That’s the vibe – explicit or implicit – that should be coming off of her. Instead, we have to hear about how she felt “hunted” (eyeroll).
Here’s the latest trailer for The Intern. This seems more like a DeNiro film than a Hathaway film, but I have to say… that have nice, comfortable chemistry with each other.
Some street style photos of Annie from the past few months. She’s totally the girl who wears a unironic fanny pack.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
I like Anne and didn’t think the “backlash” was justified. What did she really do that was so terrible? Being too excited? The horror.
Agreed, she was in fact “hunted” – and I think the retorics of this post illustrates that perfectly well.
It was so unnecessary. I get being annoyed, but the amount vitriol she got over being excited was so weird.
She was kind of annoying and overexposed during that time, but many are during awards season. I don’t think she deserved all the hate she got, but I also think she needs to stop talking about it now.
That’s the internet/social media for you. It’s hard to predict which tidbit will get blown out of proportion on any given day and she was one of its victims. Imo.
very well said and I agree – there was no reason for haters and backlash – she worked hard and got a reward from that hard work. I wish her every continued success.
I also like Anne. I was so uncomfortable watching her get raked over the coals during her Oscar campaign.
Agreed.
I like her, too. She’s a nice woman, she was excited, she is generally low key, she doesn’t show up drunk to award shows and “fall” all of the time, she doesn’t pretend she can eat anything and be better than us. I don’t get why people beat her up. She’s better than most in Hollywood.
A-freaking-men. Dear god, she was ridiculous and it was hilarious. People skewered her unnecessairly. And lmao Kaiser if she did have that attitude she’d be sent to the roasting pit again.
I agree, it wasn’t justified at all!
She’s a fantastic actress, and absolutely beautiful too.
Bullies gonna bully bully bully bully ….
I agree with all these people, but then I see her wearing a fanny pack- un-ironically as Kaiser said- and well. I can see why the hunt was necessary.
LEOPARD PRINT FANNY PACK.
I cannot.
@ LA Juice – I believe it’s not so much a fanny pack as it is a dog-training-tool-belt. It holds pooper scoop bags, treats, clicker, and yes, whilst there’s room for keys, phone and maybe a debit card or a couple of bucks, I think she’s wearing it because she’s walking the dogs. Her jeans are so tight it’s not likely she’s got treats in her pockets; she’d never be able to access them in a timely manner, and when rewarding dogs, timing is EVERYTHING! So,dear Kaiser and Juice, what I’m trying to say is, she may be very appropriately dressed for walking the dogs, which happens to be what she’s doing! If she were wearing a fanny pack whilst, say, shopping or sight seeing, I’m with you all the way. But honestly, I think we have to give her a pass on this one, this once!
I was tired of her too, but people really went overboard. A lot of posters here act like people were just expressing dislike. Well, maybe here. A big chunk of the internet was truly, truly cruel. People were acting like World War III would start because someone was being particularly annoying during Oscar season.
I didn’t read it cuz I STILL HATE HER-I like ‘the devil wears Prada’ but her les miz Mimi was insufferable as was her award hosting gig…she should grow some hair.
Sorry I’m pissy mates!
ITA. I have never understood the hate for this woman. She seems a lot nicer than much of Hollywood. She was delightful to watch in “The Devil Wears Prada” although that was totally Meryl Streep’s movie.
On a more shallow note, she’s got great street style. I 💜 that brown suede trench coat.
I found her a bit annoying then but the backlash was so ridiculous and OTT that I ended up pitying her and growing a distate for the haters.. Social media can foster a “pile-on” mentality . People who are guilty of relatively minor annoyances sometimes get unfairly eviscerated when other people join the hate bandwagon. I’d say Anne Hathaway is a good example of that. Bill Cosby? Roman Polanski? I think they deserve all the vitriol they get.
But the Hatha-hate was disproportionate to what she was actually guilty of IMO.
Maybe some of you should check the comments you posted at the height of the Hathahate.
Exactly!
honestly, I never got the extremeness of the hate against Anne. Yeah, she was thirsty for her Oscar but I’ve seen far worse thirst and smugness during award season (see: Natalie Portman just two years previous to that) and no one batted an eyelid then.
@Mispronounced – I wasn’t posting here in those days but my stance on her hasn’t changed – the hate was too much. And for what, a few award speeches?
she IS a great actress..let her own that and her career..an shut the F*** up abt everythng else…
I find that unfair. Interviewers ask them questions, that they answer. Most of the time, that’s how these soundbites are brought up again and again.
Wow, her street style is horrible.
the first outfit is truly horrifying
She used to dress cute but then something happened 4-5 years ago and now she dresses like this. Atrocious.
Honestly, I don’t know that she turned down the “pity poor me” rhetoric at all.
“There was a stretch of my life when I wasn’t comfortable being myself. I didn’t think I was good enough.”
That’s her way of making herself into the victim, albeit a bit more subtle this time. That’s her way of telling us we’re all monsters for picking on her because she was struggling with her own insecurities. Don’t get me wrong, I know what that’s like, and I feel for her. But that’s still “pity poor me” rhetoric.
And it’s a way to not deal with the fact that people pick your personality apart. When she says she wasn’t her true self at that time the nitpicking picked her public persona apart, not her real self.
But honestly I don’t know what I would have done. She got on my nerves big time (and I really liked her before), but I’d be crushed if the public had spoken about me like that.
Really interesting point, Liv, and I totally agree. It’s probably a defense mechanism– she can be more comfortable with what people were saying because they weren’t really saying it about her, just this person she was apparently trying to be. But you’re also right in that none of us know how we’d react if the world was lashing out at us. I would be crushed, too.
Well-said. She did seem to somehow rub people the wrong way, but some of the criticism was over-the-top. She seems a bit sensitive and like a people-pleaser, which is maybe why it affected her so much where others would just shrug that stuff off.
OMG i’m going to watch this movie so hard!
It does look good, and it’s nice to see a role for a woman that’s more than just the wife or girlfriend.
I thought she sounded okay in this interview. Maybe it was only brought up again because the interviewer asked her that question, since it was a big part of her past?
Yeah, it’s not like she told the interviewer that her highball glass was modeled after her c-ck. 😜
I wonder why she left that out? Probably focusing on meat that was too tough to cut.
She was exhausted from being hunted, obviously.
Uh oh, already getting db’d all over the place today.
I didn’t see any DBs. Did you declare ‘like’ for Miles Teller or sumthin’?
They’ve been poofed!
DUDE yesterday’s smack down was epic. I’m sorry you got dragged so hard (and you handled it very well), but jeez. We Need Brain.
mimif, It was actually entertaining at a certain point.
Oh you crazy gals. 😉
I felt for Kiddo yesterday. Don’t you hate it when you make a simple comment about a celeb that you don’t even have a strong feeling about, everyone jumps on you, and then you spend an hour defending your original comment about a celeb that you don’t even GAF about ? That only ever happens to me here.
I remember one time a few years back there was a thread about a celeb who let his kids ride ATVs and I spent like, a day arguing with people about it.
My original comment was that it didn’t seem safe and All the Moms With Kids Who Ride ATVs came out to blast me. As if I give two f*cks whether someone lets their kid ride an ATV or not. Ugh.
Back on topic, I actually like AnnE even if my boyfriend hates her with every fiber of his being.
Kitten, maybe I should go the route of BRAMHALL and have my signature be:
❤️MILESTELLER🍺 from now on?
*no highball emoji yet*.
You should make yours:
👮CHILDREN’SATVSAFETYMONITOR🚸
That’s an excellent idea, Kiddo!
Well, I’ve now been poofed. No more Bermuda Triangle of doom comments._ and out.
omg LOL
I think that the question was asked to her. Every time we read those quotes with the opening “on fame, on life, the backlash etc…”, I’d really like to see which question was actually asked, which phrase actually came out of the reporter’s mouth.
That’s what’s an interview is,no? Questions/answers.
Ity always annoys me to not see the questions in articles. It would really give perspective and maybe some actors wouldn’t come across that bad.
I thought it was a great interview. I’ve been a huge fan of Ann since the beginning. She became too cutesy phoney during awards, but she didn’t warrant the massive backlash that was ongoing after. I stand behind her. She’s made some interesting choices as an actress, and I always love her on screen. I thought she was great in Brokeback Mountain. Rock on, Ann.
Can I just say she put the balls to the wall when she did Lip Sync Battle and did Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball reenacting her music video. She owned it. It was hysterical. She put Emily Blunt to shame doing Janis Joplin in their battle.
Enjoy. it’s worth watching her do Wrecking Ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SZfznYgToc
Wow! Thank you for linking this! It was fabulous! Too funny!
I still can’t believe she won the Oscar for Les Miserables…she was barely in that movie! Also, I love musicals, but if not for Hugh Jackman’s wonderful performance, I would have wolked out of the movie theater…it was horrible!
Well I love that film and her performance and she won best supporting actress so she did not need to have much screentime. She had several songs and a storyline of her own which is much more than many supporting actress nominees and winners who play a supporting wife/girlfriend characters.
Anyway I am glad she is finally growing her hair. The long hair she used to have was so beautiful. But her style is not that good.
When you have seen the play on Broadway, I think it makes the movie suck, with rare exceptions. It’s just not the same experience.
I didn’t think the movie was that great (I did enjoy the play) but I thought she did a very good job in it. Others have won for less screen time (Judi Dench for example).
she overacted that part so hard im surpised she didnt end up in a full body sling
She just doesn’t do it for me in real life or in films. It’s nothing personal and I’m not hate filled towards her, but whenever I read a story about her or an interview of hers, I think, “She just doesn’t know how to present herself or engage with people in a way that makes her likeable.”
It’s just what Kiki Dunst said over in her interview, that people have unrealistic expectations about actors — that not only do they need to be sensitive enough to act well but also be tough enough to take the criticism that’s always leveled at them.
I don’t particularly like Ann but she strikes me as an earnest, theater-kid type who can be annoying but who is probably more about the work/craft than the fame. It seems like she doesn’t need to apologize for that.
I actually think AnnE (she’s so insufferable, she will get mad at you for forgetting the E!) is about the fame. You don’t do those kinds of OTT campaigns and you don’t orchestrate pap walks to show off your “style” if you’re not about the fame. I dislike her a lot because I feel like she thinks she is better than she actually is — more beautiful, more talented, more stylish, more intelligent, more interesting, more humble than she actually is — and she comes off pretentious and disingenuous af because of it to me. I think her earnestness is an act that she realized when she was younger worked for her. It was probably genuine when she was young, but no one gets to where she is today and remains earnest and guileless. Just, no.
I also think whiny actors who want to be famous should STFU about having to be “tough enough to take criticism” because anyone in a position to be critiqued or commented on for anything — famous actor or not — needs to be tough enough to handle it. That’s called ‘having basic life coping skills’. In life, sometimes people are mean and will say mean things. Sometimes people do think your shit stinks, and have no problem letting you know. And if you want to be famous, that ‘sometimes’ gets magnified. Fame isn’t limited only to positive attention from the public. It’s attention of any kind, good or bad, and actors are not necessarily entitled to it. I wish more of them remembered that.
I like Anne Hathaway, she is one of the best actress I always watch in the big screen. Her Les Misérables is one of my favorite. I really do not understand the hate and the backslash though seems over the top.
I think people hate Anee Hathaway because they have nothing else to do but hate, they’re just jealous because of her sucess as an actress. I don’t see anything wrong with her personality, I absolutely love it, and she seems to be a nice and kind person.
Besides my hate is towards people who have a smug, cold personality like Natalie Portman and Alicia Vikander l
So you’re jealous of Natalie Portman on a non-busy day?
I don’t particularly like her and I think she’s highly overrated as an actor, but I’m not jealous of her at all. I’m worlds away from the entertainment business. If I wanted to be jealous of someone’s career in HW, I’d be jealous of Cate Blanchett or Jessica Chastain. But I do follow AH’s stories because she’s a PR disaster and I’m in a related field to that.
People like to pile on certain celebs. Glad she didn’t let it get her down.
She got annoying and didn’t let off when the criticism started heating up, but at the end of the day, Annie is an Oscar winner. Mission accomplished. Good on her for having a goal and hustling to make it happen.
Kaiser, I can’t imagine Annie or anyone who has won/wants to win an Oscar admitting to being overzealous in their pursuit. It would be admitting, publicly, that their talent had less to do with it than their networking abilities.
It’s weird, the obsession with wining an Oscar. Since so many Oscar winners have gone on a straight line descent to obscurity. I mean, look at what Holly Hunter’s doing these days. Do we remember any of the Oscar winners from 20 years ago?
The Oscar is still a measure of success. But considering how nominations and Oscars have been won in recent years, it definitely doesn’t mean as much as it used to. Now it’s all about how much money a studio will spend on a campaign, and how much schmoozing the actor will do, versus the actual best performance. It doesn’t have the same significance it used to, in my opinion.
She should have fired her publicist or agent, someone should have told her to stop w the over campaigning way before it got to the level it did.
People who are too thirsty will inevitably get flack. Eddie Redmayne got some backlash last year and he seems to be a people pleaser like Hathaway. They just seem so fake but Hathaway needs to stop playing the victim. She was more likeable before she became a “serious actress”.
When I dog sit, I sport the fanny pack unironically as well. It carries that I need for a long walk. So is Anne is wearing it, she is making sure dog business is taken care of.
I like her a lot, didn’t follow her pursuit for an Oscar. Anyway, she’s a great actress, just like Kirsten Dunst, she always sets the right tone (although some critics disagree).
I think Anne is a great actress. She always sucks me into her characters and when I watch her movies, I don’t see Anne Hathaway. I see whatever character she’s playing and I find her believable. Did she go overboard during the Oscar campaign? Yeah, she did. But it kind of seems like they have to campaign and I don’t remember actors having to do that before the last several years. Maybe I just never paid attention.
At any rate, I think she’s a fairly sensitive person and she probably did feel hunted. i hope she is over it and in a good place.
The Intern looks like a really good movie! I will definitely see that one.
Her street style is terrible. Elements are good but she just can’t pull it off. Hipster she is not, no matter how hard she tries.
Meh. We tend to dislike people we feel we can’t relate to/ are too educated/pretty/ well-spoken.
Anne is a classically trained singer and actress, still Batman era thin at the time of her Oscar win, and just all around that perfect, A+ student body president that underachievers can never stand.
She was pitted against chubby and plain Jennifer Lawrence who talked constantly about getting food poisoning runs and eating Doritos. We Americans can relate to that more than the perfect ballet dancer who dares to actually act grateful and excited about winning an award. We don’t like intelligence and wit. We like easy girls who won’t make us think too hard.
Sucks, but that’s how it is. Hopefully people lay off her now.
I’m with you on that one. Anne is amazing.
Any time Ann had a movie coming out, I was there usually opening weekend to see it. I loved her in movies. When she did the Becoming Jane movie about Jane Austen, I went that afternoon of the opening weekend. I loved her in movies. I hated her super, super, short hair and glad to see her getting more thickness and a little length back to her hair.
I like Anne, and I agree the contrast with J-Law did her no favours at the time, unfairly. However, I don’t buy the idea that this contrast was clever, thin, beautiful Anne v farting, ‘plain’, unthreatening Jennifer. For one thing, Lawrence isn’t plain by any stretch of the imagination, and is obviously both intelligent and quick-witted (just watch the footage of the press conference after she won the Oscar). The real contrast was between Lawrence’s perceived spontaneity and Anne’s perceived artificiality.
I agree 100%! Well put! Anne is a hard worker, though, because that stuff doesn’t just happen. (Although I think voice lessons were wasted on her.) JLaw is too much in the other direction, but Americans lap it up. Can you imagine Anne talking about farting? Please. She actually has class, which we generally hate. So we hate her.
Are you serious? Lol
+1
And even when I would have given the Oscar to Sally Field, I never understood the hate campaign towards Anne, especially when she seems to be a really nice person.
I don’t think people “hated” Anne, because who knows her to hate her, really. But she was sooooo phony, so insufferably fake-modest, so contrived, so clawing and climbing, inauthentic, manipulative and so, so, so needy for a few years that she was just very hard to stomach and people just found her persona sort of repulsive. Then, of course, she cut her hair off for the Le Mis role and all of a sudden she was this person who had a prominent nose, huge teeth, big ears and basset hound eyes…and she physically became, well, shall we say…unattractive. Now she sounds like she’s a bit more level set, and if she keeps her head down and just acts, everyone will get over it. But for God’s sake, she doesn’t learn– she should never, ever, ever, mention it again, as it starts her rebranding all over again. (And of course, she should continue to grow her hair out…)
We love to smack around people pleasers. It happens here and it happens in real life.
I was reading all the comments and I liked yours. That’s pretty much how I feel. And I specially agree with emphasis what you mention about her rebranding herself again by talking about the past. She should play it cool and change the subject. But no, obviously mags and blogs will pick this part and give it title honors.
And no, I don’t hate her, but that pleasing sweetheart thing with no edge at all always comes across has lack of spine. And the fake-modest… I just can’t with that. It’s like she tries too hard. That’s the problem with knowing too much about actors, what they do when acting is overshadowed by their public persona.
absolutely. It was about AnnE’s try-hardness and her pretensions. she just was too much – too fake-humble, too earnest, and too into herself. while jennifer lawrence is no doubt just as ambitious and just as fake, she does a better job of it. so perhaps she is the better actor? that said, no real hate for Anne – just a reminder of why people started to turn on her.
I like Anne, think she is a good actress and I like her in all her movies. I also think she got slammed about Oscar zealousness/campaigning, yet MANY of them do that without as much hate (see Jennifer Aniston and Benedict Cumberbatch).
But that said, needs to leave it alone, even when asked say “that’s old news, I’m over it, I don’t think about it anymore so why should I comment on it”. Because talking about it 2+ years later, just rehashes it over and over again. Anne should read the excerpt in Glamour from Mindy Kaling that came out this week on KILLER CONFIDENCE (please Celebitchy..cover this excerp, SOOOO GOOD and TRUE!! Required reading for EVERY women..especially young, starting-out women). Mindy has the right attitude about haters and it doesn’t bother her one bit. And she puts up with MUCH MUCH more critique than many white actresses ever will.
But that said too, think Anne’s Oscar year will likely ALWAYS follow her around (unfortunately as she is a good actress). But look at Sally Field, the “You REALLY like me ” Oscar speech is still talked about and Sally who is an EXCELLENT actress, can’t escape it, still “hunted” down these many years later about it. And this was pre-internet days LOL!!
Good PR would be not to talk about it, but I’m sure I would be devastated if the entire world was mocking me and telling me I was annoying. Especially if it was taking away from a moment that was supposed to be a highlight of her career. It is part of the deal, but she is a real person and I’m sure has real emotions.
All I can say is, WTF! I didn’t get my Instyle magazine yet.
LOL Monica!! Best comment of the day!
I never understood the Anne hate. It seemed irrational. She was annoying but harmless.
I find it somewhat strange that the backlash affected her so much, since the backlash was in response to an insufferable persona she was trying on during that period. No one was attacking her, because that wasn’t her, that was ‘super serious actress Anne’. Before that we had ‘America’s Sweetheart Anne’, ‘international globetrotter and trophy girlfriend Anne’, ‘edgy indie check out my eyeliner Anne’, ‘aw shucks Anne’, and ‘fashionista Anne’, and since then we’ve been in the dark period I like to call ‘I only listen to organic free trade vinyl Anne’.
I don’t dislike her, because I have no freakin’ idea who she is. Every few years she throws a new persona at the wall and see’s if it sticks. So far nothing has. That’s what people are reacting to. She’s showed us so many versions of herself, and every single one comes off phony and try-hard. It’s annoying, but more than that it’s just painful and cringey to watch.
Well, I for one never liked her and still don’t. She’s always so over-the-top phony in interviews (which leads me to think she has very little self-esteem) and she tries way too hard. I like authentic people who are comfortable with themselves.
I saw her in 1 movie Les Mis the movie was a gift and I thought she was the worst part of the entire movie. I just googled to check myself before I realized she won an Oscar for that movie. Oh my.
She’s still on this? Doesn’t she have anything else to talk about? Move on already. People were mean to you on the internet a few years ago, big effing deal.
I still don’t like her and I don’t feel bad about it (shrug).
Well Annie, we’ve already seen yer ham sammich, what are ya gonna do for an encore?
Meh, she’s a try hard, faux humble annoyance. She was insufferable during one of the try hardest oscar campaigns ever. I don’t like her, some people do. Not everyone has to like you. She has her millions and her oscar. I don’t need to feel bad for her, do I?
Well that Oscar curse is still rolling. Her career kind of went nowhere after that Oscar win. She was lucky to be cast in Interstellar in supporting role. But thats kinda it. That Intern comedy with DeNiro looks painfully “Straight to DVD” boring. No boxoffice for that one.
Ad Natalie Portmans career went to dumpster after Oscar win. She has those Thor movies to show up once if few years in forgettable supporting role. But other then that she kinda vanished.
Natalie Portman had a baby just after winning her Oscar. Of course she slowed down her career to focus on that. She’s got lots of projects coming up soon too.
Can’t stand her. I think she’s insufferably smug and she was incredibly annoying even before her unending Oscar campaign. Years later she is STILL talking about her Oscar campaign. She seems so insecure and needy to be so fixated on her ‘haters’ and how she is perceived when in reality she got exactly what she wanted and was propped up by the majority of the media and fans for being oh-so-perfect. Taylor Swift does this too. Grow up.
The only time she really annoyed the heck out of me was when she flashed her biscuit while exiting a car and complained that she was worried that might “hurt her Oscar chances.” Puh-LEASE!