Anne Hathaway says Christopher Nolan was "an angel" for casting her in Interstellar in the midst of online toxicity

Mar. 26, 2024

“[He] gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of”

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“A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” Hathaway toldVanity Fair. “I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of. I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect. And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.”

Hathaway’snext role is in rom-com The Idea of You, which sees her play a 40-year-old divorced mother from the LA suburbs who strikes up a romance with a 24-year-old British member of the world’s biggest boyband (played by Nicholas Galitzine), after a chance encounter at Coachella.

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