Anne Hathaway has shared a weakness she faced in childhood that shaped her career choices later in life.
the devil Wears Prada The actress was talking about her work ethic in a recent interview when she recalled the dance classes she attended growing up.
“I think I knew from a young age that even though I was lucky in a lot of ways and grew up with some privilege, this big life wasn’t just going to happen to me,” the Princess Diaries star explained. Harper’s Bazaar.
She added, “I’ve always felt defined by my work ethic, because my skills are what I have and I have to work with what I have, but how hard I work is something I can control. And so I never want to feel lacking and feel like I could have worked harder. If I know I’m working hard, I can live with who I am.”
The 43-year-old actress admitted that her struggles have been dance-related. “I couldn’t quite understand why there was no progress,” she said, recalling the dance lessons she took as a child.
“At a certain point, dancers jump, right? And I was going all the time, and I couldn’t jump in either sense of the word,” she explained.
At some point, Hathaway came to terms with her struggles in dancing and mediocrity in singing.
“I just remember having that conversation with myself and I said, ‘Okay, well, I don’t think you’ll ever be a dancer, and your singing is good, but I don’t know that you’ll ever be a star singer.’
“So, I rejected ‘pop star’ very early on, but I found that acting kept opening up for me. I wasn’t worried that I couldn’t keep up with Beyoncé, because she’s Beyoncé.”
The actress once again remembered her past failure as she had to learn dance for the new film mother MaryA psychological pop melodrama directed by David Lowery.
In the upcoming film, she finds herself playing a pop star whose comeback performance reunites her with an estranged fashion designer best friend (Michaela Coel). The role inspired him to exceed his previous expectations.
“It was really humbling to have to deal with limitations that I had always had in my body, that I had accepted as part of my identity, but that were no longer acceptable.”
He acknowledged that the work that people had to accomplish “in a short period of time” without “hard training” was not that easy for him.
“So at the end of it, I couldn’t say, ‘Okay, yes, I wish I had done this better. I wish I had done that better.’ But I know I really couldn’t have tried harder,” she concluded.
