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“Hate is hard to bear. The key is not to let it shut you down. You have to be bold.” These words from Anne Hathaway reflect one of the hardest moments of her career, when the internet conspired against her, bringing her down from stardom to the ranking of the most hated actresses. The worst thing is that there was no apparent reason for such a lynching, beyond seeming too perfect. Now Anne has a lot to say about it. They’ve loved her again, although what others think of her matters little to her.
This was the starting point of constant criticism on social networks, mockery from colleagues and editorials that boasted about how much everyone disliked her. But who was everyone? And why exactly this animosity towards an actress who dazzled relatively recently?
In The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway won over the teenage and not so teenage audience with her tenderness, and in The Devil Wears Prada we all took her side facing a tyrant like Miranda Priestly. But the public did not seem to like that she went from a commercial and silly film to a film like Les Misérables , based on a Broadway play and inspired by the literary classic by Victor Hugo. A film that aspired to critical recognition and the highest awards. Who would have told Anne that after winning a double with a Golden Globe and an Oscar her ordeal would begin.
Her triumph was so annoying that she went from being the new Audrey to the new Gwyneth . They stopped seeing her as the new American promise to throw at her some of the hate that Gwyneth Paltrow used to receive, who before her experienced this sudden jump from love to hate. In Gwyneth’s case it is understandable (but not justified), her blunders range from using the racist term nigger to selling vagina-scented candles for 75 dollars. But
what had Anne Hathaway done to deserve this?
WHY EVERYONE STARTED TO HATE ANNE HATHAWAY
“I don’t find her perfection adorable. I find it irritating ,” wrote media blogger Alexis Rhiannon. Victoria Wellman, an expert on rhetoric, argued to CNN that Hathaway was disliked for “not coming across as sincere. Everything about her seems calculated.”
And so a movement was born on social media with its own name and even a hashtag: the Hathahaters. Willing to see any move by the actress as a mistake. Starting with the drastic weight loss that, due to the project’s demands, she had to assume for her performance in Les Misérables. A reflection of the sexism that prevails in Hollywood, she was branded as irresponsible while her colleague Hugh Jackman, also forced to lose drastically for the film, was praised for his professionalism in taking on the challenge.
Many found Hathaway’s Golden Globe acceptance speech to be tedious and forced. She thanked everyone too many times. She had prepared her speech with devotion. She sang like an angel. And her huge smile never stopped shining. Happiness and perfection that in a world eager for memes and stumbles was shocking.
The second round remained: her look at the Oscars. Her dress was the most viral of the night, a Prada that showed off her breasts quite a bit. A perfect excuse to stir up criticism. The curious thing is that the actress chose this dress second-hand. She was going to wear a Valentino because of her friendship with the designer, but when she saw that it looked too much like the dress chosen by her colleague Amanda Seyfried, out of courtesy she made the change. “I am very sorry for any disappointment caused ,” she later apologized in a statement, aware that her look had not been liked, a constant desire to please that once again set the networks on fire. They say that when you are in the spotlight, whatever you do will be criticized.
Only a villain is capable of standing strong in the face of hate. And it is clear that Anne, in life and in fiction, is made to be the good girl in the movie. Speaking of movies, this unjustified cancellation came to cost her dearly. In 2015, a ranking placed her as The Most Hated Woman in Hollywood and producers began to reject her for fear that this hate would have an impact at the box office. The crusade against the perfect girls materialized in the Hathahaters began to have serious consequences.
How Anne Hathaway turned criticism into powerful learning
Speaking fearlessly about the hate she has suffered, giving advice on how to deal with bullying and even laughing at her pluperfect status, were the antidote for the protagonist of The Devil Wears Prada to reverse this trend that made her the target of criticism. “Having the internet pour its hate on me was tremendous. I wouldn’t go through it again, but I’m grateful to have learned from what happened,” she said in an interview with The Sun.
Her new project will see her work for the third time with Christopher Nolan . The director who completely ignored the anti-Hathaway movement and clung to her talent by giving her the role in Interstellar that made her rise from the ashes . Hathaway has referred to him as “the angel” who saved her career. In this new film, whose plot is still a mystery, she will share the lead role with none other than Zendaya.
With new victims to denigrate, Blake Lively and Taylor Swift should get ready -women, what a surprise- Anne Hathaway has once again won over the public, who now praise her sweetness and simplicity . She is no longer viral for resembling that annoying friend who does everything so well that it drives us a little crazy. Now, disheveled in a Paris nightclub, she gives it her all on the dance floor, becoming that other friend with whom you want to go “get it on.” It’s a shame that both women were always the same and that some people insisted on blurring her image.
As a final lesson, nothing like an extract from an inspiring speech by the protagonist: “You can judge someone by their behavior. You can forgive the behavior or not. But you have no right to judge – and especially to hate – someone for existing. And if you do, you are not right,” said the actress. “Hate seems to me to be the opposite of life; nothing prospers from it. Be happy for women. Above all, be happy for women who are successful. It is not that difficult.“
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