Anne Hathaway has lavished praise on Christopher Nolan for helping to save her career by casting her in Interstellar.
In 2012, Hathaway starred in Les Miserables and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film. However, the reaction to that victory was strange, to say the least, as she became the victim of an online campaign of hate.
According to the actress, at one point she googled herself and the top result was an article with the title 'Why Does Everyone Hate Anne Hathaway?'.
Just a year or so later, Nolan cast her in one of the lead roles in Interstellar which became one of the biggest movies of 2014.
“A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” Hathaway told Vanity 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.”
Anne Hathaway on online hate
It was a humiliating time for Hathaway following the Oscars fallout, but she got through it and her popularity now has arguably never been higher.
“Humiliation is such a rough thing to go through,” the Oscar winner explained.
“The key is to not let it close you down. You have to stay bold, and it can be hard because you’re like, ‘If I stay safe, if I hug the middle, if I don’t draw too much attention to myself, it won’t hurt.’ But if you want to do that, don’t be an actor. You’re a tightrope walker. You’re a daredevil. You’re asking people to invest their time and their money and their attention and their care into you. So you have to give them something worth all of those things.
"And if it’s not costing you anything, what are you really offering?”
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