Anne Hathaway said she was asked by a reporter if she was a “good girl or a bad girl” when she was just 16.
The actor spoke about the incident while participating in a Q&A after the premiere of his new film, “Eileen,” at the Sundance Film Festival.
“I just remembered that one of the first questions I was asked when I started playing and had to do press was, are you a good girl or a bad girl?” Hathaway said, according to Variety. “I was 16 years old. And my 16-year-old self wanted to respond with this film.”
Hathaway brought up the incident when she described wanting to work with “Eileen” director William Oldroyd after seeing the 2016 drama “Lady Macbeth,” starring Florence Pugh as a woman trapped in a loveless marriage to an older man. older.
“I thought it was an amazing job,” Hathaway said. “I saw a study of female complications that struck me very, very deeply, and I felt that Will was a director who could be trusted to tell complicated stories, especially about women.”
Based on Otessa Moshfegh’s 2015 novel of the same name, “Eileen,” a thriller, follows a young woman living a bleak life in 1960s Boston. While working in a prison, a woman named Rebecca (Hathaway) joins the staff and changes Eileen’s life. .
