It’s a surprise to have Anne Hathaway spilling out her insecurities. But it seems she’s a chronic worrier – an actress who fears that every new role will be her last.

This, from a star who landed the coveted role of Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, which she’s currently filming for director Christopher Nolan. Who’s set to play Judy Garland in a screen biography. Who’s about to open in One Day, the film adaptation of British novelist David Nicholls’ international bestseller about a relationship that takes two decades to come to fruition.

Yet here she is this morning, telling us about her anxieties. It’s as if The Princess Bride, The Devil Wears Prada, Brokeback Mountain, Rachel Getting Married and Love and Other Drugs never happened.

“Every actor feels it,” she says – the difference here being that she’s not afraid of saying so. “We’re all a mixture of arrogance and insecurity. I’m actually not a very confident person – I’m just very professional.”

She laughs at what she has just admitted. But she leaves no doubt that she’s serious.

“Worry comes with the territory of being an actor. You don’t come into this profession for the job security. And there are a lot of things, at times, beyond your control.”

Furthermore, she suggests, success must not lead to complacency – because success actually makes you more vulnerable.

“I’m playing at a pretty high level now, so there are a LOT of things beyond my control. You can be doing fine work, and people just decide that they’re bored with you – and all of a sudden, you don’t get the opportunity to do things.”

Hathaway is talking with such calm, analytical assurance about the perils of her profession that you sense a contradiction here. How can someone so seemingly together really feel so vulnerable?

But she leaves no doubt that the vulnerability is there. For her, every good film opportunity – for example, the current One Day – comes as a gift.

“It makes you appreciate the things that you have, because it’s nice to have a script like this and a character like this. I think, ‘Oh my gosh, this is what I get to pour myself into!’ And the older I get, the more I appreciate these opportunities, because I assume they’re going to become increasingly rare. So you just try to live in the middle of every moment.”

She also makes clear that with One Day, which opens Aug. 19, she had to fight for the role of Emma Morley, the principled working-class girl from Northern England who wants to make the world a better place, but ends up learning some difficult truths about love and life.

The film begins on July 15, 1988 – St. Swithin’s Day – in Edinburgh. That date launches a friendship that will last a lifetime between Emma and Dexter Mayhew, a wealthy, self-absorbed, feckless charmer played by Jim Sturgess. It’s an often turbulent friendship, but one that ultimately survives wrong turns and emotional minefields to evolve into something more meaningful and profound.

David Nicholls, who wrote the screenplay from his own book, calls One Day a love story “about friendship and family, nostalgia and regret, and the way that our hopes and dreams don’t come true – at least not in the way we expect them to.” His script follows the structure of the novel, offering annual snapshots of the course of the Emma-Dexter relationship, each set on St. Swithin’s Day.

Hathaway first read the script in December 2009, and it came to her in the nick of time, because her dreaded insecurities were once more bubbling to the surface.

“I had wrapped Love and Other Drugs and had a two-week panic that I was never going to work again. Then I was sent One Day, and it became a full-frontal assault to get the part.

By Jan. 7, she was in London, with the aim of convincing director Lone Scherfig (An Education) that she was right for the part.

“I was sitting in a club somewhere in London, talking with Lone, trying to explain to her why I ought to play Emma Morley – and failing miserably. It was the worst meeting I’ve ever had.”

Hathaway’s personal selling job didn’t seem to be working – and it wasn’t just because she was an American wanting to play a quintessentially British character. But she persevered, and thinks now that one big factor in eventually winning Scherfig over was her decision to name a list of her favourite song titles and suggesting that Emma would approve of them.

“Emma was the most honest, complex, beautifully drawn character I’d found since Rachel Getting Married,” Hathaway says. She was also fascinated by the way the story examines the difference between friendship and love, and she rejects the notion that it’s difficult for a man and a woman to just stay friends without wanting to take a relationship further.

“The majority of my friends are gay men, and I’ve never had any sexual tension with them!” she laughs. But she also has straight male friends and – “yeah, I think it’s possible with a straight woman to be friends with a straight guy and vice versa.

“But I’m not the person to answer these questions. I’ve been in a very rock-solid relationship for three years (to actor Adam Shulman), and I’m a one-man woman and don’t really look at other men that way. I’m terribly boring and loyal and true-blue and all that.”

However, she’s come to some solid conclusions about what happens to Dexter and Emma in the course of 20 years in the film.

“I don’t think Emma and Dexter could have gotten together a day before they did. They both had so much life to live and so many realizations to come to. Before they could be together honestly and openly, I think he needed to learn to appreciate her, and she needed to learn to appreciate herself. I think that was the most serious impediment.”

Hathaway loved charting Emma’s journey over two decades.

“Emma’s not a girl who changes; she’s a girl who evolves,” she says.

Not surprisingly, Emma’s changing wardrobe – distinctly dowdy at the beginning – signals this.

“Odile Dicks-Mireaux, the costume designer, and I had all these fun conversations – like, ‘What was the year that Emma found the right bra?’”

Speaking for herself, Hathaway says this can be a crucial discovery for any woman.

“You have many, many years where you do not wear the right bra, and then one day you find it, and it’s like doors opening . . . a life-changing moment!”

One Day opens Aug. 19.

From chick flicks like The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada to the upcoming action movie The Dark Knight Rises, super-talented and super-stylish Anne Hathaway can do it all. Based on the bestselling novel with the same title, Anne’s latest movie One Day, in theaters August 19, follows the relationship between Emma Morley (played by Anne) and Dexter Mayhew (played by Across the Universe cutie Jim Sturgess) over 20 years on the same day they met. Seventeen caught up with Anne at the premiere of One Day where she gave us all the dish on this romantic movie, perfecting Emma’s English accent, and her favorite outfit from the film.

Seventeen: We’ve heard you say that Emma’s Yorkshire accent was one of your biggest challenges in making the movie. What was so hard about it?

Anne Hathaway: The thing about the accent that was really important for me to get was that it evolved over the course of the film because as you get older your voice changes, the way you speak can change. I’ve met a lot of people from Yorkshire, and when they left the area or moved to London, their accent changed. You can meet 10 different people from Yorkshire, and they have completely different accents.

17: How is One Day different from your typical romcom?

AH: In a lot of traditional romcoms or romances, people meet in really unbelievable ways, and then they fall in love in about three weeks, and then they fight, and then somebody chases somebody across Manhattan, and then they kiss, and that’s the end of the story. This movie allows these characters to get to know each other for a really long time, so when they say they love each other, when they finally admit to it, you believe them, because they’ve earned it. I think this is a movie where the characters earn your belief in their love.

17: Can you relate to your character? How are you like her?

AH: Emma’s a late bloomer. I am myself, and I think a lot of women out there are too. There’s a lot of pressure to feel like you have it all together in your early 20s, and I certainly did not feel that way nor did I have it all together. And there’s something very nice about getting older and realizing that getting it together is something you do over the course of your entire life. Once you start to relax, everything gets a lot more fun.

17: What was your favorite outfit from the movie?

AH: I loved the dress that I got to wear when I was in Paris. I loved it. Emma loves vintage. And I love the idea that she was in Paris, and she found that perfect vintage dress and wore it and had the guts to cut her hair off. For me, that dress symbolizes a lot of Emma’s dreams coming true.

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The Dark Knight Rises is currently filming in England under the direction of Christopher Nolan, and today the first video from the set featuring stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne and Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle has appeared. The crew is currently shooting at Wollaton Hall, which is doubling as Wayne Manor. Check out the footage below.

When fans finally catch a glimpse of Anne Hathaway in her Catwoman costume from The Dark Knight Rises, they’ll likely see something that’s less like Michelle Pfeiffer’s or (thankfully) Halle Berry’s, and more like … Darwyn Cooke’s.

An “insider” on the Christopher Nolan film tells HollywoodLife that the outfit’s concept draws heavily from the comics, specifically the design originated by Cooke a decade ago.

“Anne’s outfit is more tactical, like the comic book, than the previous Batman movies,” the source says. “She will definitely be wearing the goggles and it’s going to be less sexy than Halle Berry and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman costumes. She’s going to look more like a robber.”

The Cooke costume, with its goggles, zipper and practical boots, was a significant departure for the DC Comics character, who was frequently depicted wearing a form-fitting catsuit and stiletto heels.

“So psyched to see reports that Anne Hathaway will be wearing a version of the Catwoman costume Darwyn Cooke designed for our run,” former Catwoman writer Ed Brubaker said on Twitter. “I had a few ideas about the goggles and headgear, but Darwyn went off and created a Catwoman look that’s lasted ten years already. I don’t think I really thought our version would stick after I left the book. Certainly not all these years now.”

The Dark Knight Rises, which opens on July 20, 2012, also stars Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman.

(via Badass Digest)

In a rough translation from an interview with a Swedish website, the actress briefly discusses the Catwoman costume (no hints about what it looks like though!) as well as the responsibility of such a role and the training needed…
The following comes from Swedish website, Nojes Bladet, which is why it may sound a little nonsensical in places due to the translation from Google. Here are the selected excerpts in which the actress briefly discusses her role as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises.

That is when she is asked to compare that role with his next in “The Dark Knight Rises” which she confirms that she accepts cat costume in his first superhero movie.

She is more than well aware that the role involves comparisons with Michelle Pfeiffer , Halle Berry and Eartha Kitt .

“It makes you work harder, I take a chance not that something may work. But there is a certain satisfaction in that, towards the end of the day did everything.”

Reports from the film recording confirms that Anne Hathaway hardly been idle. She is reported to have torn down dozens of Catwoman costumes, and she recognizes that the role has meant a lot of physical training.

“Yes, really.”

But then she looks down at the table and turns on itself. You can tell that she lost weight, but she would not tell you how she trained for the role of Catwoman.

“That’s a little embarrassing,” she says, laughing nervously. “It’s a bit personal. I’d rather talk about than acting on my training.”

With an all star cast which includes Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Garly Oldman as Jim Gordon, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake and Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, The Dark Knight Rises is set to be released on July 20, 2012!

Focus Features has just released the brand new trailer for their upcoming film One Day, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.  Based on the bestselling book by David Nicholls, One Day charts the extraordinary relationship of longtime friends, Dex and Em.

And rememberer the movie now open up on AUGUST 19^th, 2011 nationwide.

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“They said we were the worst show ever. I think that qualifies as tough. There was the critical reaction, which was awful. Then there are the people who have been coming up to me since then who stop and say, ‘I thought it was fantastic. I watched it with my family and we were entertained.’ I am very grateful to those people.”

Anne Hathaway is participating in a special online auction benefitting Autism Speaks.  Anne is participating in the 2^nd annual Lindt Gold Bunny Celebrity Auction, to help to celebrate the Easter season and support the autism cause.  The auction is part of Lindt’s partnership with Autism Speaks – this is the third year Lindt has partnered with Autism Speaks during the Easter season to support those affected by autism and to raise funds and awareness for the cause.

 

Next Wednesday, March 30, Lindt will kick-off the auction at www.ebay.com/LindtGoldBunny and 100 percent of the auction proceeds will be donated to Autism Speaks.  More than 80 celebrities, including Anne, have signed porcelain version of the iconic Lindt Gold Bunny and all will be on display and up for bids between March 30 – April 9