Anne Hathaway worried she'd gone "too far" in Eileen
In her Actors on Actors interview with Emily Blunt, Hathaway also said the Ottessa Moshfegh-penned film made her feel "braver" as an actor
This year, Variety’s annual Actors on Actors series has turned into an interesting exploration of which fears stars had to overcome to deliver a great performance—with an extra sprinkling of praise from the famous friend sitting across from them. For Mark Ruffalo, it was being completely naked on camera in Poor Things. (Don’t worry, he’s still very “bangable” according to Robert Downey Jr.) For Anne Hathaway, who participated in the series opposite her old The Devil Wears Prada co-star Emily Blunt, it was changing her signature brunette locks (even though she infamously had them cut off on camera in Les Misérables), and donning a fabricated accent for the psychosexual thriller, Eileen.
“I think I’ve gone too far this time,” Hathaway recalled saying to a friend while working on the film, in which she plays an alluring and mysterious psychologist named Rebecca. “Oh God, I’m blond and I invented an accent. I’m not basing it on anyone except for my own imagination. This is the way I saw her, and I feel like I’ve gone too far.”
