Anne Hathaway has shared some insight into what making a film was like in the early 00s.
Between the years of 2001 – 2010, Hathaway starred in a host of hit movies, with The Princess Diaries being her breakout role.
She also featured in the likes of Ella Enchanted, Get Smart, The Princess Diaries 2, Bride Wars and Brokeback Mountain – just to name a few.
With many of her roles having romantic elements to them, Hathaway had to do chemistry tests with her co-stars ahead of filming.
She’s starred alongside the likes of Chris Pine, Hugh Dancy, Steve Carell and Chris Pratt, all of whom she will have presumably had to do these ‘tests’ with.
And part of the so-called tests back then was to make out with her fellow actors; something which Hathaway has since labelled ‘gross’.
“Back in the 2000s – and this did happen to me – it was considered normal to ask an actor to make out with other actors to test for chemistry, which is actually the worst way to do it,” the 41-year-old recently told V Magazine, whom she’s the cover star of their summer edit.
Anne Hathaway on the cover of V Magazine. (Chris Colls/V Magazine)
“I was told, ‘We have 10 guys coming today and you’re cast. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ and I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ because I wasn’t excited. I thought it sounded gross.”
Hathaway added that she was ‘terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘difficult’ so pretended to be excited by the masses on snogging she had to do.
“It wasn’t a power play, no one was trying to be awful or hurt me,” the Devil Wears Prada favorite added. “It was just a very different time and now we know better.”
Hathaway has been all across the media of late ahead of the release of her new movie, The Idea of You.
She plays 40-year-old single mum Solène alongside Purple Hearts actor, Nicholas Galitzine.
Anne Hathaway was just 17 when she starred in The Princess Diaries. (Walt Disney Pictures)
As well as being this month’s V Magazine cover star, she recently donned the front of Vanity Fair magazine.
For her interview with the outlet, Hathaway rewatched some of her old films and became overcome with emotion while watching The Princess Diaries.
“This was the film that changed my life,” Hathaway said of the 2001 Disney favorite. “It’s so weird to watch it. I haven’t seen this movie in nearly 20 years.”
She went on to say she was ‘speechless’ watching it back and how she was ‘really glad I got to be that girl right there’.
