Every time Anne Hathaway appears during a movie premiere and people shout her name, she flashes back from her childhood.
“The only person who calls me Anne is my mother, and she only does it when she’s really angry with me, like really angry,” the Oscar-winning actress said Tuesday in the episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in the lead role. So every time I act in public and call someone by my name, I think they will yell at me. People are like, ‘Anne!’ And I’m like ‘What? What did I do? ‘”
Hathaway’s real first name is Anne, but this is not the name she uses in her outdoor screen life, where she is the wife of Adam Shulman and mother to sons Jonathan, 4, and 1-year-old Jack.
When she worked on films, such as Ocean’s 8, The devil wears Prada and Brokeback Mountain, the cast and crew knew she was not naming her by her legal first name.
‘People are so lovely, they do not want to be presumptuous, and that’s why I think they come up with solutions, because no one can ever call me Anne. It does not fit. I’m an Annie, ‘Hathaway said, apparently referring to what she mentioned earlier. “People call me ‘Miss H’, people call me ‘Hath’, so feel free to call me anything but Anne.”
Hathaway regrets that she linked herself to the name when she first started in the entertainment industry.
“When I was 14, I did an ad and I had to get my SAG card and they asked me, ‘What do you want your name to be?’ ‘, She said. “And I was like, ‘Well, that’s my name. My name is Anne Hathaway. ‘So it seemed like the right choice, but it never occurred to me that people would call me Anne for the rest of my life. ‘
Hathaway won her first major breakthrough, starring in the short-lived 1999 series Become real, when she was still a teenager. By 2001, she was playing one of her most famous parts, Mia Thermopolis. The princess diaries. She was first nominated for an Oscar for the drama in 2009 Rachel trou. She will then star alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor in HBO Max Locked.
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