"I had a bit of a roller coaster experience on this movie," she says. "I was playing a character way out of my comfort zone. All that overt s*xuality is just not me."
Anne Hathaway cried every day while shooting romantic
comedy-drama Love and Other Drugs.
“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 s*xuality is just not me,” Hathaway — who shot
multiple s*x scenes with co-star Jake Gyllenhaal — tells Reuters.
She says the s*x scenes aren’t raunchy: “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 n*dity and more of intimacy.” PHOTOS: Jake and Anne at
the AFI Fest.
“Gosh, I think everything except
for our families and friends have changed in our lives since then. We are
basically the same people, just older and wiser,” says Hathaway.
In Love and Other Drugs (out Nov. 24), Hathaway plays Maggie, a
free spirit who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease. The complex character was
not what drew her to the role, though. REVIEW: Love and Other Drugs.
“The
script that I was sent was a story about a man who was changed by the love
of a woman. And the script that we wound up making is a story of two people
who are changed by love. What I brought to it was probably a sense of
entitlement, that my character ought to have emotional parity with Jake’s,”
she says.
Hathaway was nominated for a best actress Oscar in 2009 for Rachel
Getting Married. When asked about how she would feel to be nominated next
year, she says, “You are so sweet to ask me to go on that magic carpet ride!
I believe I am one of about one of 37 actresses with Oscar buzz this year so
I am actually going to keep my feet on the ground and say ‘I will wait and
see what happens.”
