Anne Hathaway Is Being Praised For Her Honesty After She Admitted That She Agreed To Star In “The Idea Of You” Because She Wants “To Have Fun” And Not Be “Pigeonholed” By Her Oscar Win

“does anne hathaway know she's in a harry styles fanfic?” somebody else asked at the time. 

Another questioned: “How do you think they pitched this movie plot to Anne Hathaway for her to accept this role???”

“something died in me when i saw the „Academy Award Winner Anne Hathaway’ name card,” one more tweeted, while somebody else said: “anne my love what are you doing.”

She told Vogue: “It was supposed to be a story about a woman approaching 40 and reclaiming her sexuality and rediscovering herself, just at the point that society traditionally writes women off as desirable and viable and whole.”

In video footage that was shared by Variety, Anne is overcome with emotion by the audience’s reaction to the film, saying in the clip: “You have no idea the gift that you’ve just given us with your responsiveness, by being so connected to every little nuance in this. I will never forget this screening.”

Reflecting on her role, she adds: “For some reason, we talk about coming-of-age stories as being something that happens to you in the earliest part of your life, and I don’t know about you, but I feel like I keep blooming. So when Cathy [Schulman] and Gabrielle [Union] so generously offered me the part, I was thrilled to say yes.”

Anne then appeared to acknowledge the online discourse around her being in The Idea of You as she got seriously real about why the role appealed to her.

Quote-tweeting Anne’s comment, one person wrote: “Want more actors to say this. Cause you lot on here get so annoying when they’re not doing Oscar baity films all the time as if it’s beneath them. Sometimes, people make fun moves.”

“film twitter needs to hear this,” another user agreed. “your [fave] actors are not as pretentious as you are! they want to have fun they want to do every genre they can and not be pigeon holed.”

“she's never been someone who runs towards prestige projects or someone who's awards hungry anyway..let a girl have fun!!” somebody else pointed out. One more wrote: “more actors and actresses need to be like her.”

“I love that she chose something fun over constantly trying to win another award,” another tweeted, while somebody else concluded: “I love this, no artist should be [pigeon] holed into making serious art only, sometimes we should have fun too.”