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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. One of the great unsolved mysteries of physics is the 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 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.
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.
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”.
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.
