# Why do people hate Anne Hathaway? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084 "2016-03-06T03:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/41 "2016-03-07T18:37:52Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > … And she doesn’t seem to make a public buffoon of herself, like Gwyneth Paltrow does. This. I think she’s just getting Gwennie’s sloppy seconds hate. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/42 "2016-03-07T21:42:46Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Did she actually have lines as Catwoman? So far as my memory is concerned, it was largely a non-character. The only requirement seemed to be looking sexy in close fitting black pants and, in my mind at least, she exceeded the requirement. > > And I don’t mean that as a put-down, like she’s only any good for looking pretty. So far as I can tell from the films I’ve seen her in, she’s a perfectly reasonable actress. But, dissing her because of her role in the Batman series feels like it would have to have more to do with the role itself than her part in it, because it just wasn’t much of a role. I don’t know what one would have to base the criticism on. [She had a lot of lines](http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Dark-Knight-Rises,-The.html), search for Selina. She and Batman/Bruce had a lot of conflict, both physical and verbal. IIRC she helped motivate him to get back on the job. By the end of the movie they were coordinating and working together. I think the reason people don’t like her is she comes off as a bit too smug. I like her though. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/43 "2016-03-07T22:26:23Z")
She’s a 6 at best but for some reason keeps getting roles that should go to an 8-9. Chris Brown is way worse, though. That anyone give that piece of shit and his work attention infuriates me. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/44 "2016-03-07T22:37:00Z")
> [@black\_rainbow](#): > > She’s more hated than Chris Brown. More hated than the man who “inspired” the novelty song [Chris Brown Should Get His Ass Kicked](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_MoEe5ryQ)?! 😕🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/45 "2016-03-07T23:35:42Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > She was married to the man for over 30 years, and the only thing he leaves her is the “second-best bed”?!? :dubious: Obviously _something_’s not right there; granted, it’s kind of a “he-said, she-said” situation, but given the _he_’s widely considered to be (to quote [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare)) “the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist”, lots of people will naturally take his side without knowing what was really going on in the marriage. It’s true. The number one reason to hate Anne Hathaway is that she calls herself Anne Hathaway. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/46 "2016-03-08T05:04:03Z")
Is that not her original name? ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/47 "2016-03-08T07:01:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Is that not her original name? It is her birth name. ---
**Author:** ![Manila\_Bay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Manila\_Bay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manila_Bay)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/48 "2016-03-08T08:18:41Z")
She’s not a classic beauty as far as I can see. Nor does she play the regular gal role that well. But she was very good in “Get Smart” and “The Devil Wears Prada.” Yes, her somewhat cerebral but otherwise plain aura doesn’t impress many. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/49 "2016-03-29T01:28:34Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I think that she’s hated kind of like Justin Bieber is hated by metal heads. I think that the real problem is an overabundance of cutie pie. > > I’m wanting to say that I didn’t notice any of it, tho, until she was in Les Miserables. I meant the hatred, not the cutie pie. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/50 "2016-03-29T10:26:20Z")
I spent the past three weeks thinking “How could **handsomeharry** not have noticed until _Les Miserables_ that Anne Hathaway was a cutie pie!?!?!?!?!?” Thanks for clearing that up, **handsomeharry**. I feel a bit more comfortable living in this world now. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/51 "2016-03-29T13:47:23Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Jennifer Lawrence seems to be getting some of this backlash now. She went from fresh and adorable to “oh God, not more of HER.” I wish I could remember where I read things, but at the height of JLaw’s adoration, probably when she won the Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook, someone said, “we all felt this way about Anne Hathaway at one point, too.” Which I didn’t fully understand because I didn’t realize “we” had turned on Hathaway. I still like her. And I also felt like Lawrence was in a different category. Unhateable. But I think you’re right. Lawrence’s aww shucks appeal may be wearing thin. ---
**Author:** ![Shooby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Shooby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shooby)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084/52 "2016-03-30T13:39:00Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > She’s a 6 at best but for some reason keeps getting roles that should go to an 8-9. Oddly enough, this is basically the argument that a female friend of mine uses for disliking Hathaway. Anne’s pretty enough, but everyone keeps making her out to be this great beauty, both in and out of her movies. To me, she’s just generic Hollywood attractive, but I don’t really care about her one way or the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/748084.md?page=2)