So how did Anne Hathaway handle the insinuation that she should be “excited” to kiss ten guys in one afternoon for the sake of a “chemistry test?” She stayed quiet, unfortunately, because she feared being called “difficult.”
And I was so young and terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘difficult,’ so I just pretended I was excited and got on with it,” Hathaway said, before clarifying something: she doesn’t think the situation was malicious or anything like that, but simply standard for the time. “It wasn’t a power play, no one was trying to be awful or hurt me. It was just a very different time and now we know better,” she confirmed.
These days, Hathaway is a producer as well as an actress. She earned her first producing credit on the 2016 romantic comedy “Song One” and has produced many of her own projects in subsequent years, including the strange drama “Colossal,” “She Came to Me,” “Mother’s Instinct,” and her current project “The Idea of You,” the last of which co-stars Nicholas Galitzine (“Red, White & Royal Blue,” “Bottoms”). So how did she and the film’s creative team cast Galitzine in the project without any creepy chemistry tests?