In another thread, a poster said that in the past couple of years opinions of Anne Hathaway have taken a turn for the worse.
Is this so? If so, why?
I’ve never been someone who was impressed with her hotness, but I judge her a fine actress.
Cause haters gonna hate.
(Not quite as glib as it may come across; really, there is a huge community out there of folks who are going to be vocally negative about anybody, particularly public figures, who are more talented, more popular, and-or more successful than they are.)
There was a film reviewer on the morning radio show I listen to that complained about Hathaway trying to “coax a tear” in her acceptance speech. What the hell? She doesn’t even have honest feelings?
I think it’s just haters. Women haters.
She’s a bit insufferable. When she said “It came true” I admit I did want to vomit all over the place.
I like her fine as an actress and think she’s quite beautiful, but she just tries SO hard all of the time - it comes off as a bit inauthentic.
What does the section I bolded mean? I don’t understand it.
Hm, hard to explain.. She’s a performer. She’s the girl in the high school that has to be the lead in every musical, has to have every solo in choir, etc. She has this energy about her of always being “on” that gets tiring. As if she’s playing a character who’s an overachieving actress, but then she never goes out of character.
I like her for the most part, and I think she’s very talented and beautiful… but something about her real personality just rubs me the wrong way.
I think it’s because people think that in interviews she comes off like a majorly rehearsed humblebrag when really she’s a total play-by-the-rules and do-what-it-takes type. I do think she’s just not as naturally charismatic as Jennifer Lawrence, who either really IS a hot dork, or much better at doing interviews and coming off relatable than Anne Hathaway.
That said, I like her just fine. She’s an awesome actress, I loved her in the Batman movie and on SNL this year, and she seems like she’s really hardworking.
Not attractive to me at all. That mouth is just creepy huge.
Other than that all I can think of is the example of Sally Fields.
This is based on something I said in that other thread. For the record I think she’s talented and classy and I have no problem with her. But I’m starting to get the sense some people think the charming touches to her personality are actually carefully selected and artificial, and they hate that because … I don’t know; it doesn’t matter much if you think about it. (Bob Ducca’s post bears out my impression, anyway.) But people hate phonies even if it doesn’t matter if they’re real or phony. She’s also received a ton of love from the press over the years and a lot of exposure for Les Miserables and I guess there has to be a backlash at some point.
For my part I’ll say I rolled my eyes when she said something about “the cherry on top of the … vegan ice cream sundae” last night. And that’s coming from someone who eats a lot of vegan food. But she was very good in The Dark Knight Rises and I liked her in The Devil Wears Prada. I don’t blame her for the 2011 Oscars or the Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland.
I have no problem with her. To me it seems as if she feels like she’s not supposed to revel in her success so she comes across a apologetic, and to some falsely so.
I’d rather see that than Kristen Stewart’s thinly veiled contempt.
Thinly veiled? I’d never seen her before the Oscars, but she seemed angry and bored to shit. I was reminded of Courtney Love during her most strung out days.
It goes without saying that there are people out there who hate ANY celebrity you could name, and Anne Hathaway undoubtedly has haters of her own.
That said, I’ve never noticed her being a particularly object of scorn or derision. There aren’t THAT many people who loathe her, and the few there are haven’t been all that vocal.
I think this is two sides of the same coin. I think Jennifer Lawrence really is a hot dork because no one can be as “on” as she is in her hot dork persona all the time. Her lack of a filter even comes across in written interviews, so I doubt very much it’s an act.
That said, I think Stewart is the same way. She can’t even fake being an engaged celebrity for three seconds and so she always comes off as awkward and shy and a little confused as to she needs to talk to people all the time. Again, I think that’s how she is.
For a third example, see Jim Parsons, who is that awkward in real life, but his geeky tendencies go towards theater and dog breeding instead of comic books and video games. The best part? He’s so un-self-aware that he has no idea these are nerdy things to be interested in.
Some people get a bit judgy about how very skinny she is. That’s all I’ve noticed.
It’s been more that this awards season she’s been the girl who got the lead in every musical, got every solo, etc. because she was that good, and then acted faux-surprised about it. The “who me? really?” disingenuous humility thing she’s been doing recently is wearing thin.
She used to be a lot more likable in her appearances and interviews.
She did a nice job of keeping Mr. Drysdale’s office running smoothly…
It’s her new too-short hairstyle and the fact she’s lost so much weight that she looks like another Hollywood twig.
(Not really. I have nothing against her and her presence in a movie will not negatively determine whether I chose to see it or not. However, it may be due to over-exposure and, as mentioned previously, resentment for supposedly being an over-achiever. The same type of public ill-will erupted on the internet against Gwyneth Paltrow about ten years ago.)
Faux humility is really patronizing - which raises the question of why so many people respond to it so positively and practically demand it from famous actors and athletes.
NDP, you’re not the first person I have seen make the Hathaway/Paltrow comparison. I also liked Paltrow as an actress and I never got the backlash against her either - or at least I didn’t until she named one of her children Apple.
No, no, no. That Hathaway was not forenamed Anne. The real mystery is how the actress we’re talking about has retained the appearance of youth when she was born in the 16th century.