Anne Hathaway talks of Love and Other Drugs
Anne Hathaway teams up with former costar Jake Gyllenhaal again in a romantic comedy drama Love and Other Drugs.
NEW YORK:
Anne Hathaway teams up again in a romantic comedy drama Love and Other Drugs with her Brokeback Mountain costar Jake Gyllenhaal.
Her performance as Maggie, a sexually overt free spirit who meets a pharmaceutical sales rep and finds herself surprisingly falling in love, has garnered Oscar talk heading into the Hollywood awards season.
Hathaway, 28, talked about the film - based on the nonfiction book, Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman - and topics ranging from pharmaceuticals to the movie’s main drug: love.
Apparently in shooting this movie, you cried every day?
I did, I had a bit of a roller coaster experience on this movie. I was playing a character way out of my comfort zone. All that overt sexuality is just not me.
How difficult were the intimate scenes?
I think they were the most involved sex scenes I have ever done. We didn’t want to lose the film’s energy in these scenes. And I think that is what resulted in the film. It’s less of nudity and more of intimacy.
How did you try to not overplay the Parkinson’s tremor in your character?
I researched it. I spoke with people who have it at different stages of their diagnosis. About how I got the physical, I watched a lot of videos on YouTube.
How differently would you feel if you were sitting in the Oscar audience this year as a nominee, compared to last time?
I believe I am one of about 37 female actors with Oscar buzz this year so I am actually going to keep my feet on the ground and say ‘I’ll wait and see what happens’.
You joked about your former relationship with Raffaello Follieri on ‘Saturday Night Live’. How important was it to keep a sense of humour about that experience?
I think sense of humour is a personal thing. It comes naturally to me. I am naturally self-deprecating. I will go to my favourite Indigo Girls quote ... “You got to laugh because you would cry your eyes out if you didn’t”.
Moving onto love, how does one know when one is past the initial “drug” high of love and onto the real thing?
Plato attempted to answer that question and people are still struggling for the proper answer. I don’t know anything. All I know is that it requires vigilance of oneself to be worthy of love. When you have found the right person and you are in a place to accept it, I think it is a lot of work to accept love.
I heard someone say the other day, some people are naturally brilliant at giving love and some people are naturally brilliant at receiving love ... and if you are not brilliant at both, then that is part of the journey. And if it’s the right person, it will be someone who wants that transition to happen for you.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 30th, 2010.
Anne Hathaway teams up again in a romantic comedy drama Love and Other Drugs with her Brokeback Mountain costar Jake Gyllenhaal.
Her performance as Maggie, a sexually overt free spirit who meets a pharmaceutical sales rep and finds herself surprisingly falling in love, has garnered Oscar talk heading into the Hollywood awards season.
Hathaway, 28, talked about the film - based on the nonfiction book, Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman - and topics ranging from pharmaceuticals to the movie’s main drug: love.
Apparently in shooting this movie, you cried every day?
I did, I had a bit of a roller coaster experience on this movie. I was playing a character way out of my comfort zone. All that overt sexuality is just not me.
How difficult were the intimate scenes?
I think they were the most involved sex scenes I have ever done. We didn’t want to lose the film’s energy in these scenes. And I think that is what resulted in the film. It’s less of nudity and more of intimacy.
How did you try to not overplay the Parkinson’s tremor in your character?
I researched it. I spoke with people who have it at different stages of their diagnosis. About how I got the physical, I watched a lot of videos on YouTube.
How differently would you feel if you were sitting in the Oscar audience this year as a nominee, compared to last time?
I believe I am one of about 37 female actors with Oscar buzz this year so I am actually going to keep my feet on the ground and say ‘I’ll wait and see what happens’.
You joked about your former relationship with Raffaello Follieri on ‘Saturday Night Live’. How important was it to keep a sense of humour about that experience?
I think sense of humour is a personal thing. It comes naturally to me. I am naturally self-deprecating. I will go to my favourite Indigo Girls quote ... “You got to laugh because you would cry your eyes out if you didn’t”.
Moving onto love, how does one know when one is past the initial “drug” high of love and onto the real thing?
Plato attempted to answer that question and people are still struggling for the proper answer. I don’t know anything. All I know is that it requires vigilance of oneself to be worthy of love. When you have found the right person and you are in a place to accept it, I think it is a lot of work to accept love.
I heard someone say the other day, some people are naturally brilliant at giving love and some people are naturally brilliant at receiving love ... and if you are not brilliant at both, then that is part of the journey. And if it’s the right person, it will be someone who wants that transition to happen for you.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 30th, 2010.