Anne Hathaway calls for an automatic R rating for any movie where the dog dies

This is per a conversation Hathaway was having with Complex, timed to the release of her new film The End Of Oak Street. (Which, due to its premise, opens itself up to questions about whether heroic pooch Starbuck might not end up getting the “that one dog in The Lost World“ treatment before its run-time is out.) When asked about cinematic depictions of dog death, Hathaway took a hard-line stance: “I feel like movies that kill dogs should automatically be rated R,” Hathaway said. “Doesn’t matter if anybody curses, doesn’t matter if there’s violence, if a dog dies, R-rated.”

Citing John Wick by name, Hathaway suggests audiences are full-on traumatized by canine murder at this point, before questioning which films are casually killing off dogs at this point. (Which is kind of hilarious, given that Hathaway is fresh off The Odyssey, a film in which John Leguizamo chucks a puppy off a cliff in maybe the most off-hand dog murder we’ve ever seen in a film. Of course, that movie also just became one of the most successful R-rated movies of all time, so, hey: The system works!)