# Do People Hate Anne Hathaway? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376 "2013-02-25T21:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/101 "2013-02-27T15:37:37Z")
You know, I don’t care enough about Anne Hathaway to work up the enthusiasm to hate her. I suppose she can seem a bit too poised and polished at times, but hello! She’s in Hollywood. I’ve enjoyed her performances in the few movies of hers I’ve actually seen (_The Devil Wears Prada, Becoming Jane, The Dark Knight Rises_ and _Get Smart_ spring to mind). She’s a talented, attractive young actress, and that’s enough for me. > [@Becky2844](#): > > I think she’s a fine actress and over-all entertainer but she’s become almost too precious for words. Also, I think she’s grooming herself to take on the Audrey Hepburn mantle unless somebody stops her. Don’t worry. Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman are way, _way_ ahead of her in line for that. ---
**Author:** ![SleuFeets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SleuFeets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleuFeets)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/102 "2013-02-27T15:53:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > You know, I don’t care enough about Anne Hathaway to work up the enthusiasm to hate her. I suppose she can seem a bit too poised and polished at times, but hello! She’s in Hollywood. I’ve enjoyed her performances in the few movies of hers I’ve actually seen (_The Devil Wears Prada, Becoming Jane, The Dark Knight Rises_ and _Get Smart_ spring to mind). She’s a talented, attractive young actress, and that’s enough for me. > > Don’t worry. Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman are way, _way_ ahead of her in line for that. Keira Knightley? I don’t think she’s really “acted” in any movie her whole career. More liked stood around pouting. Audrey Hepburn was pretty and talented lest we forget. As for Natalie, I think she shys away from the “girl next door” thing deliberately. She’s been a serious actress since she was a fetus. I don’t think Audrey would have played an assasin’s mentee at 13. (The Proffesional) In sum: Knigtley really can’t be mentioned in the same breath as Audrey, Portman, or Hathaway. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/103 "2013-02-27T16:03:17Z")
> [@SleuFeets](#): > > Keira Knightley? I don’t think she’s really “acted” in any movie her whole career. More liked stood around pouting. You’ve not seen _Domino_ or _The Jacket_, just to name two off the top of my head? She’s brilliant in both, and playing parts that are very different from each other, and from the costume drama parts she’s sometimes typecast in. > [@](#): > > Audrey Hepburn was pretty and talented lest we forget. As for Natalie, I think she shys away from the “girl next door” thing deliberately. She’s been a serious actress since she was a fetus. I don’t think Audrey would have played an assasin’s mentee at 13. (The Proffesional) > > In sum: Knigtley really can’t be mentioned in the same breath as Audrey, Portman, or Hathaway. To be honest, it’s Hathaway who’s the odd one out. She plays on her sex appeal much more, as opposed to beauty, and whilst she’s certainly talented I’ve not seen a truly brilliant performance from her. _Les Mis_, whilst a very good performance on it’s own merits, was utterly out of place in that film - although I doubt that was due to her choices, it looked like a decision by the director. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/104 "2013-02-27T16:03:21Z")
I used up all my dislike for gangly, weird-faced, overexposed actresses the media insists I must adore in 1990, when _Pretty Woman_ came out. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/105 "2013-02-27T16:04:50Z")
> [@SleuFeets](#): > > Keira Knightley? I don’t think she’s really “acted” in any movie her whole career. More liked stood around pouting… Pistols at dawn! **Skald** , will you be my second? ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/106 "2013-02-27T17:55:27Z")
> [@SleuFeets](#): > > Keira Knightley? I don’t think she’s really “acted” in any movie her whole career. More liked stood around pouting. I thought she was great in Pride and Prejudice, and Atonement. . . and she also excels in standing around and pouting, but she also giggles and smiles pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/107 "2013-02-28T19:47:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Pistols at dawn! **Skald** , will you be my second? In a duel? That would require me to fight fair, and you know I oppose that on principle. As my great-great-grandmother said just before they hanged here, “If it ain’t worth fighting dirty over, it ain’t worth fighting in the first place.” As for the contention that Knightley cannot act: I think _A Dangerous Method_ puts the lie to it. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/108 "2013-02-28T20:01:24Z")
Oh, very well. [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) on all the Hathaway hatin’: [http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/28/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/anne-hathaway-hate/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/28/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/anne-hathaway-hate/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/109 "2013-02-28T20:02:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Oh, very well. I didn’t say I wouldn’t fight on your side, dude; just that I wouldn’t fight FAIR. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/110 "2013-02-28T20:11:58Z")
[The New Yorker has also weighed in.](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/anne-hathaway-in-defense-of-the-happy-girl.html) I hope that means that whatever this is, it has now become completely overdiscussed and will now go away. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/111 "2013-02-28T22:53:57Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [The New Yorker has also weighed in.](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/anne-hathaway-in-defense-of-the-happy-girl.html) I hope that means that whatever this is, it has now become completely overdiscussed and will now go away. Perhaps. Still, I do think it will be interesting to see if all this public haterade remains so strong that Hathaway’s next few movies tank and within five years she’s reduced to doing woman-in-peril flicks for Lifetime and/or sugary glurge-fests for Hallmark. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/112 "2013-03-01T01:22:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Oh, very well. > > [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) on all the Hathaway hatin’: [http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/28/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/anne-hathaway-hate/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/28/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/anne-hathaway-hate/index.html) Two things about that article. Firstly > [@](#): > > “People do not like Anne Hathaway,” wrote Brian Moylan of [Hollywood.com](http://Hollywood.com). “They use the word ‘hate’ a lot when they talk about her. And their hatred is vehement, like Itchy’s for Scratchy, like the Hatfields’ for the McCoys, and Taylor Swift’s for every man who she has ever talked to since her 15th birthday.” The Taylor Swift line made me laugh. Although these days it is certainly looking like Taylor Lautner dodged a bullet. That girl is starting to look a bit like “the crazy.” Anyway, second thing about the article. > [@](#): > > The actress is not oblivious to the shade being thrown her way. After her Oscar win for best supporting actress Sunday night, she was asked backstage her reaction to being teased about her earnestness. > > “It does get to me, but you have to remember in life that there’s a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive,” Hathaway responded. “And I’m going to … I’m going to go there. The miracle of the universe is that, as far as they know, there’s 51% matter versus 49% antimatter. Things tip in the scale of the positive. And so, that is what I focus on.” NOOO!!! NOOO!!! Damnit! There’s nowhere near that ratio of matter to antimatter in the universe, if there were we’d probably never have existed as the matter and anti-matter would have [annihiliated each other](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation). One of the great unsolved mysteries of physics is the [Baryon asymmetry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_asymmetry), which relates to exactly the enormous disparity between matter and antimatter. Anyway, I largely agree with **Starving Artist**. She’s a very professional and disciplined individual, who presents what is probably a persona in public appearances. Given how the public viciously excoriates people who show human weakness or genuine emotion in public settings, I can’t blame someone for using a persona when the cameras are flashing. To some that may seem fake, but if you see her in a setting like [her interview with Charlie Rose last year](http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12247) you get more of a sense of her as a person, instead of a persona. The bit where she talks about the work she puts into her craft instead of being able to sink into a role, like Meryl Streep, or Michelle Williams, rang especially true to me because I’ve been around performers a lot in my life and have seen exactly the phenomenon she talks about. The difference between people who have to work for a character and people it comes naturally to. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/113 "2013-03-01T02:07:27Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Perhaps. Still, I do think it will be interesting to see if all this public haterade remains so strong that Hathaway’s next few movies tank and within five years she’s reduced to doing woman-in-peril flicks for Lifetime and/or sugary glurge-fests for Hallmark. No. Because true haterism isn’t real hate at all. It is a miasma of hate, envy, annoyance, humor and the kind of indignation you feel when you think someone is trying to manipulate you. But it isn’t true hate. Most of the haters will still watch her movies and buy magazines with her on the cover, because deep down, they DO recognize she is beautiful and talented and vibrant and they can’t honestly kick her off that pedestal because they help build the pedestal in the first place…now they are annoyed with her for the cricks in their own necks from looking up. Remember how it all played out with Gwyneth Paltrow. Same thing. And her career just got bigger and bigger. This is that real haterism, not the true distaste that people have for stars like Lindsay Lohan. As for me, I gotta tell ya…I didn’t notice her annoying shit much, but after this all popped off in the media, I started paying attention, and yeah, she can get on your damn nerves. Like, she decided at the last moment to wear a Prada dress, instead of a Valentino, and she put out a statement about ‘deeply regretting if she hurt anyone’ or some dramatic shit like that. I mean. Come on, sister, I’m trying to have your back here, but you’re killing me. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/114 "2013-03-01T02:43:58Z")
I am going to start loving her just to be different ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/115 "2013-03-01T04:26:13Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > She loves her gay brother and has nice tits, what’s not to like? That apron she wore to the Oscars. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/116 "2013-03-01T04:33:33Z")
dangerous apron with sharp points. i see no one has defended the “it came true” comment. aside from that though, i don’t really see a reason for the apparent “hate”. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/117 "2013-03-01T04:46:12Z")
[http://www.magxone.com/instyle/anne-hathaway-instyle-us-march-2010/attachment/anne-hathaway-instyle-6/](http://www.magxone.com/instyle/anne-hathaway-instyle-us-march-2010/attachment/anne-hathaway-instyle-6/) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/118 "2013-03-01T14:34:44Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > [http://www.magxone.com/instyle/anne-hathaway-instyle-us-march-2010/attachment/anne-hathaway-instyle-6/](http://www.magxone.com/instyle/anne-hathaway-instyle-us-march-2010/attachment/anne-hathaway-instyle-6/) Her nipples are really demanding their fifteen minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/119 "2013-03-01T15:41:39Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Her nipples are really demanding their fifteen minutes. I’m really ok with that … ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/120 "2013-03-01T17:02:06Z")
To address the OP, I really hadn’t seen anyone hating on her until the media came out saying “Why Does Everybody Hate Anne Hathaway?” It does make me raise an eyebrow. I think sometimes the media leans a little on the side of creating news rather than reporting news. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376.md?page=7)