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'America's Sweetheart' Anne Hathaway: What did she go through from stunning actress to pariah?

People are not supposed to be perfect, so too perfect itself is the original sin

By Yan Guo LuanPublished about a year ago 9 min read
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Hollywood is famous for its movie stars, and it also has a number of excellent movie stars who bring stories and emotions to global audiences.

One of the actresses, Anne Hathaway, was in Hollywood. She was good at acting, and more importantly, she had a charming face. Play an important role in

From the end of last century to the beginning of this century, she swept across the United States, became the ceiling for many boys and girls, and was adored by many fans.

But later, she seemed to fall from her pedestal and was ridiculed by the Internet and even called "green tea" by many people.

So what did she do to offend America? What about the public? What happened to her?

Anne Hathaway was born in Brooklyn in 1982, and I have to say that she was given special care by God from the very beginning.

Big eyes, high nose bridge, white skin, with a Barbie doll like face envy others, she is particularly well off.

Her father was a lawyer, her mother a dancer, and she appeared on television. Their steady jobs provided a relatively comfortable life for Anne Hathaway, who grew up in a relatively relaxed atmosphere.

Perhaps it is this relaxation that allows her to find every bit of joy in life without a worry. Because of my mother's work, I was often taken to the opera house when I was a child, and I admired those actors who were energetic on the stage.

So she also had the idea of becoming an actress in the future.

It is very important to choose the right direction when you are growing up, and Anne Hathaway has certainly succeeded in this regard.

Her appearance is outstanding among her classmates, and she is good at singing and dancing. As a result, she often appeared in school productions and other occasions from a young age, which also accumulated a lot of stage experience for her, so that she can be more graceful in front of the camera.

Before that, the 18-year-old actress was a finalist for The Princess Diaries in 2000. She has been involved in film and television, and worked with the biggest stars in Hollywood, but she has not become famous.

At this time, in fact, the heroine of the film had been basically decided, but the shooting was approaching, but the actor had something unexpected and could not be filmed, so the crew had no choice but to look for the leading role again.

It was a hard-won opportunity, and Anne Hathaway took it seriously, so she was a little nervous. When she was about to go on stage, she was so nervous that she fell off her stool.

The fall added to her embarrassment. The expression on her face changed from stupidity to shame and fear, and her whole body trembled.

The director looked at her like this, with his play in the princess image is very consistent, so on the spot set is her.

In fact, the story of that movie now seems a little cliched. It is nothing more than the story of a princess who finds her way home as a victim of folk and finally gains happiness and love. But the powerful story became a hit when the film was released in the first year of the new century, and Anne Hathaway became an instant hit. Still very attractive

People remember this folk princess with big eyes. She really does have a good performance in this movie. She grasped the life and psychological fluctuations brought by the impact of the protagonist's sudden transformation from an ordinary middle school student into a princess of a country.

All of a sudden, "Princess Sugar" became a fan nickname for Anne Hathaway.

Since then, Anne Hathaway has cemented her status as a goddess in the hearts of many with films such as Cinderella By Magic and The Princess Diaries 2.

But there are also some negative voices, saying that she is just a vase, with beauty but no acting skills.

This is not surprising. Although Anne Hathaway has a good performance in The Princess Diaries, she is really beautiful, so it is easier for viewers to notice her looks than her acting, and it is easy to have a preconceived idea that she is popular because she is beautiful.

Thought. Moreover, after the Princess Diaries, she acted in several works with similar themes such as princess images, from the story plot to the main character's dress, it is easy for the audience to have aesthetic fatigue.

By this time, Anne Hathaway was very popular, but the negative noise was increasing. In order to prove that she is not just eye candy, she decided to step out of her comfort zone and challenge more varied screen images.

So in 2005, Anne Hathaway took the script for Brokeback Mountain and played a bitch.

It was a complete reversal of everything she had ever played, and the film came out and did well, but because it was a gay story and she wasn't in the lead role, it didn't bring her much publicity.

She is not willing, she wants to continue to open up their own way of play, want to let themselves have more works to hand.

As a result, she has acted in The Devil Wears Prada, Les Miserables, Rachel Getting Married and a series of other works, acting more and more widely, the fame is also becoming more and more popular, and the award is not easy.

In 2010, Anne Hathaway's Alice in Wonderland was a huge success, grossing 8 billion yuan at the box office, which seemed to be her peak.

Hollywood's most talked about actress, audiences are once again interested in the actress who looks a bit like Barbie. Of course, fame comes with criticism, and every move of a public figure is judged.

In the years that followed, Anne Hathaway was again subjected to a barrage of abuse, but this time it was not mixed praise, but almost universal dislike and disgust, and this time she was not labeled "eye candy" but "green tea."

Some of the abuse can be traced back to the 2013 Academy Awards. This year, Anne Hathaway won the best supporting Actress award for her role in Les Miserables, but it was the ceremony that ruined her. When she took the stage, she said into the microphone, "I don't really want to win this award."

After that, she began to thank the crew and the TV station almost tearfully. Anyway, she thanked all the people who could thank her again. But after a few minutes on stage, except for the empty "thank you", she didn't seem to say anything valuable and meaningful.

As a result, her "longest thank you speech in history" was met with wild ridicule. Americans were disgusted by the inane and meaningless acceptance speech, and her statement that she didn't want to win an award created a false image of herself as the "most hated actress".

In contrast, her fellow actress Jennifer Lawrence looked more natural and down-to-earth when she stumbled on stage. By comparison, Anne Hathaway's scheming hat can't be taken off.

In addition, her personal life has become a target for black fans to attack her.

Anne Hathaway has been known to be happily married, having had her first child in 2016 and her second in 2019, but she's still in such good shape that she doesn't look like the mother of two.

She also regularly posts about her family's happy daily life on social media.

But it doesn't overshadow her previous relationship, which revealed that before her current husband, Anne Hathaway had a rich young boyfriend, Italian real estate tycoon Raffaello Farieri.

I mean, it's okay to have a rich kid's ex-boyfriend, but this guy spent one night falling out of the sky, and he ended up with a pot of dirt on Anne Hathaway's forehead.

Originally, are two people love each other, hard to part, Raffaello was targeted by the FBI, the original he suspected of business fraud, the hands of those billions of money can not say how many are unclean illegal channels.

The police moved quickly, sending him in with little time to react.

I don't know how Raffaello reacted, but Anne Hathaway's reaction was jaw-dropping. Almost is her boyfriend was arrested at the same time, she announced to the outside and each other to break off all relations, and also take the initiative to give the other party to their own may be stolen things out to the police, later is also very cooperate with the police investigation.

In fact, it is a commendable act to actively cooperate with the police investigation. But the problem was that Anne Hathaway moved so fast that Americans thought she was too calculating to distance herself.

What's more, it was later revealed that the reason she got together with Raffaello was because of his status as a rich second generation, and in the course of dating, he constantly gave her expensive gifts at her request, in order to maintain their relationship.

The speed with which she changed her attitude before and after her boyfriend's accident earned her the nickname "green tea". Later she married Adam, married husband and wife love, life is happy, maybe this kind of positive image will let people gradually forget the previous black material, but the bad is bad at this time Raffaello out of prison, and Anne Hathaway after marriage and love to expose their own happy life, which stimulated the sensitive nerve of Raffaello.

Perhaps jealousy, perhaps for the revenge of the great justice that year, he put the large-scale photos of Anne Hathaway before love on the Internet, this operation, once again put Anne into the center of the wave, let her once again be black powder scold a happy.

In this case, Anne Hathaway does have a problem. It's true that breaking up with an ex-boyfriend may have been largely a matter of self-preservation, and it's a bit unsympathetic to turn over a leaf faster than a book, but she's dealing with a criminal!

Finding out your boyfriend is a con man and not breaking up with him just so he can take you down with him? But if their relationship depends on lavish gifts from him, then she does have some... I don't blame them.

Feelings aside, Anne Hathaway's fall from the pedestal has been criticized by many people, and it seems to have no reason to scold. If you dig a little deeper, the term "green tea" may have something to do with her nasty ex-boyfriend, but it may have more to do with her own "doing".

This was evident when she said "I don't really want to win" on the Oscar stage. She may have been trying to be modest, but the joy that filled her face when she heard she had won earlier gave her away, and the thank you speech afterwards was a bit too much of a good thing. Americans like to be direct, and her "modesty" seems to them to be a bit concealable.

In fact, some of her previous actions have also been a bit of deliberate propaganda of their own suspicions. When she was filming Les Miserables, it was announced that she had cut off her cascading hair and lost weight.

But when the film finally came out, audiences saw less than the hype. And word got out that Anne Hathaway didn't approve of dying her hair blonde, so she had to change the script for herself.

Then there was another film that required British English lines, and by that time the pages were all over Anne Hathaway practicing her British English pronunciation, and the image of her laboring for it was well established. But when the movie came out, people found that her pronunciation was still mixed with a lot of American English, which was equivalent to her own face.

As a result of these false claims, Anne Hathaway was ridiculed and she gradually fell from the "Princess Sweetheart" position. It can't be said that it didn't affect her. Gradually, people saw Anne Hathaway differently.

She began to shed more of her idol baggage and reveal a more authentic version of herself. On variety shows, she would tell jokes and even make herself ugly to amuse everyone.

People's abuse also gradually dissipated as she changed, because people saw a more real her. At the same time, she also learned to reconcile with herself and the outside world. She no longer cared so much about the evaluation of others. She lived however she wanted.

At this point, people began to think, what do they hate Anne Hathaway?

In the end, I came to the conclusion that I didn't really hate her, but in many things, she was so perfect that people couldn't find any faults, so those flaws that seemed to have none were amplified infinitely, and then they were attacked from one to another.

Because people are not supposed to be perfect, so too perfect itself is the original sin. After going through all this, Anne began to break through herself and walk towards her new peak.

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About the Creator

Yan Guo Luan

I like movies, music, science fiction and art. I am a certified graphic designer and create my own art. Things that inspire me include equality, respect and anything weird.

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