This is how Anne Hathaway made discretion her best ally in Hollywood

“You cannot change the past, but you can learn the lesson”, said Anne Hathaway (Brooklyn, 1982) in one of the promotional interviews for Alice in Wonderland [Tim Burton's 2010 version, where she was the White Queen], to later add: “More specifically, don't pluck your eyebrows. The other day I saw a photo of me from when I was a teenager, and I had them amazing, and then I made them very thin and it took me a long time to grow them back, but they never went back to the way they were when they started. So it's best not to pluck them, wait until you're a bit older and see what works for your brows."

The American actress, who rose to global fame playing Mia Thermopolis in Surprise Princess (Gerry Marshall, 2000), who, by the way, also had her eyebrows plucked to make her a worthy royal heiress, consolidated as a star thanks to his participation in The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006). She there she became Andrea Sachs, the long-suffering assistant of a fashion magazine who (oh, coincidence!) Also goes through an interesting process of aesthetic change. Perhaps for this reason, many people associate Hathaway with that ordinary neighbor from the school who, from one day to the next, turns into a swan. Step by step, change by change, with discretion as the flag.

Hathaway is that swan loaded with naturalness that, however, spares no resources when faced with the demands of the script. That she has to cut her hair to win an Oscar? It is done, without any shame, even if he later regrets it. To embody Fantine from Les Miserables (Tom Hooper, 2021) she got rid of her enviable brown hair. What I thought would be an anecdote turned out to be a drama: “I didn't expect it to be something important, because it was my idea. I've backflipped through windows, jumped off buildings… and getting a haircut brought me to mental institution patient level tears. I was inconsolable," he said then on Live! with Kelly. Indeed, his thing is not to change his style (take a look at the newspaper library and you will see). She feels comfortable when she has medium length hair with a soft wave, smoky shadows (with eyebrow liner, a good mascara that amplifies the look and black eyeliner) and a pink or nude lipstick.

She was so terrified of change that after giving birth to her first child, in 2016, when she returned to a film set (Ocean's Eight, by Gary Ross, released in 2018) she felt completely unsure of herself . “One of the good things about being in this business for so long is that I have overcome the pressure for aesthetic appearance that is assumed for an actress. I no longer beat myself up about it. But after my son was born, I was slow to lose weight and was one size larger than I normally wear. The director told me that it was great, that we had a lot of women in the film and we had to have as wide a variety of bodies as we could have, which I was relieved to hear. But I walked on set and I just couldn't stop being aware of my weight gain. "I'm in jeans, I've done the best I could and I'm going to love myself and that's it'… and Sandy Bullock looks at me and says: 'You look good, mom.' It made me feel amazing. And then Cate Blanchet going, 'Nice jeans, Hathaway. It was incredible. And then Rihanna looks at me and starts. 'Damn, what a nice ass you have!' Of course I was going into shock, and she continued: 'You have an ass like mineoooo'. And I can tell you that I have never felt like this on a set before," he confessed to Ellen after the film's premiere.