When she was just 16 and at the start of her career, a journalist asked Anne Hathaway a question that deserved a slap in the face in response. “Well, Anne,” the man asked, “are you a good girl or a bad girl?” In view of this impudence, she was at a loss for words and quick wit, as she herself recently said. Today she found a different way to react to it. “I simply respond with my films,” she says.
The good girl, Bambi made human – Hathaway liked to use this image for a while, after all Hollywood paid her very well for it. Early on, the New Yorker appeared in front of the camera as if she were a reincarnation of Judy Garland or Audrey Hepburn. After her first steps in the school theater, in a choir and a short-lived television series, Disney discovered her potential as a king’s daughter with glittering eyes at the turn of the millennium. Her rise began with “Suddenly Princess!”, many roles as dignitaries and appearances in family films were to follow.
It also became obvious that Hathaway can and wants more.
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