{"id":50875,"date":"2024-04-24T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=251472"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:38:22","slug":"anne-hathaway-chemistry-tests","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/anne-hathaway-chemistry-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway Recalls “Gross” Chemistry Tests As A Young Actress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anne Hathaway at the 2023 CFDA Fashion Awards held at the American Museum of Natural History on November 6, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by John Nacion\/Variety via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anne Hathaway may be able to set her own boundaries now, but there was a time early in her career when that wasn’t quite the case. In fact, the Oscar winner has opened up about a “gross” moment when she was tasked to kiss ten men who were auditioning to star alongside her in a movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in the 2000s\u2014and this did happen to me\u2014it was considered normal to ask an actor to make out with other actors to test for chemistry,\u201d Hathaway said in a new interview with V Magazine<\/em><\/a>., a method she referred to as “the worst way to do it.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told, \u2018We have ten guys coming today, and you\u2019re cast. Aren\u2019t you excited to make out with all of them?\u2019\u201d the Princess Diaries<\/em> star <\/a>recalled. \u201cAnd I thought, ‘Is something wrong with me?’ because I wasn\u2019t excited. I thought it sounded gross.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saying ‘no’ wasn’t an easy option for a budding actress, though.<\/p>\n

“I was so young and terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything by being labelled \u2018difficult,\u2019 so I just pretended I was excited and got on with it,” she explained. “It wasn\u2019t a power play, and no one was trying to be awful or hurt me. It was just a very different time, and now we know better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AUSTIN, TEXAS – MARCH 16: (L-R) Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine attend “The Idea Of You” World Premiere during SXSW at The Paramount Theater on March 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Daniel Boczarski\/Getty Images for Amazon MGM Studios)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the actress notes, these on-demand make-outs didn’t lead to much chemistry at all, and while \u201cchemistry tests\u201d are still commonplace in Hollywood, they usually involve some simple scene work on camera these days. With Hathaway now producing and starring in her latest film, The Idea of You<\/em><\/a>, she went about chemistry testing\u2014which ultimately led her to co-star Nicholas Galitzine<\/a>\u2014in a much different way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe asked each of the actors coming in to choose a song that they felt their character would love, that they would put on to get my character to dance, and then we\u2019d do a short little improv,” she shared. “I was sitting in a chair like we had come in from dinner or a walk or something, we pressed play, and we just started dancing together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Galitzine chose a song by The Alabama Shakes, which put Hathaway at ease.<\/p>\n

“I just started smiling, and he saw me smile, so he relaxed, and we just started dancing,” she said. “Nobody was showing off. Nobody was trying to get the gig. We were just in a space dancing. I looked over and saw that Michael Showalter, our director, was beaming. Spark!\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the official trailer for The Idea of You<\/em> below.<\/p>\n