Anne Hathaway

[Mutagen]

Sept 4, 2015 22:30:50 GMT -4 memememe76 said:

I love Anne Hathaway. I appreciate her lack of irony and her earnestness. That can make some people itchy. People don't trust it. That's why so many assholes are defended--at least they're being honest, blah, blah. As if being nice is always you being fake.

Male assholes get defended, it should be said. I don't begrudge anyone their personal annoyance with AnnE, but it is crazy to me that she gets as much shit for being "annoying" as Sean Penn does for beating the shit out of women.

[tszuj]

Actresses older than 35 (maybe even 30) lose roles to teens and twentysomethings absolutely constantly. Not to mention roles being written or casting briefed as that young in the first place, when it doesn't make sense for the character (e.g. a university professor, a woman married to a 45 yr old). Whatever Anne Hathaway is referring to it's not a one-off and it's not unique.

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Well...I guess it should be put into the forum's rules that every time we write something negative, snarky or any sort of criticism towards Hathaway (seems to be the worst offense), Paltrow or other female celebrities, a disclaimer needs to be posted stating that none of these women are as bad as Sean Penn, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby or Roman Polanski. I thought that goes without saying but apparently not.
I'm out of here.

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I'm conflicted on Anne Hathaway. I haven't seen all of her films, and generally I think she's pretty and talented, but she reminds me of people in my field I've met at conferences who are more polished than I am, who work at better institutions, and who are just better than me overall (they went to better schools or had better career luck), but try to pretend we're all the same and working with the same problems, (tinkling laugh), which we aren't. I can't help it, but my reaction to her is pretty irrational.

[tszuj]

Oh, I don't like her at all, but she's completely right about this.

In my job I see maybe 20 casting calls a day, and the ageism and age discrimination is so obvious and constant it's almost surreal. Even for random generic 'happy families eating cereal or buying car insurance' TV commercials, 90% of the time they'll insist that the actress playing the mum is 5-10 years younger than the actor playing the dad. And it's not like a younger actress just happened to be the most truthful in her portrayal of silently heating up chicken strips while gazing adoringly at two stage school brats, it's a written casting requirement.

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I truly didn't see all the Anne hate. I guess I didn't follow her that closely. I don't know...She can be annoying but no more than any other celebrity.

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Sept 5, 2015 21:43:54 GMT -4 tszuj said:

Oh, I don't like her at all, but she's completely right about this.

In my job I see maybe 20 casting calls a day, and the ageism and age discrimination is so obvious and constant it's almost surreal. Even for random generic 'happy families eating cereal or buying car insurance' TV commercials, 90% of the time they'll insist that the actress playing the mum is 5-10 years younger than the actor playing the dad. And it's not like a younger actress just happened to be the most truthful in her portrayal of silently heating up chicken strips while gazing adoringly at two stage school brats, it's a written casting requirement.

OT: I always wondered why back in the day on Good Times and The Jeffersons IRL the wives were twenty years older than the husbands. The only thing I can come up with is that now everybody knows actors' ages, so they cannot cast like that anymore.

Topic: I cannot say I've seen much of her acting (Devil Wears Prada being the only thing I've seen), but I agree that I am tired of seeing twenty year old women cast as Jack Nicholson's or Morgan Freeman's wife.

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I think in the case of the Jeffersons, it might have been specific to those roles. Sherman Helmsley was the comic role and also prematurely bald, so whoever was cast as Weezy would possibly work better as a more matronly, established character who could play straight. Not sure about Good Times, though.

I love that the Anne Hathaway thread churned up a discussion about the Jeffersons.

[Neurochick]

I'm confused at the hate for AH. I don't get it, I really don't. It's like on Previously TV I'll ask someone what do they mean by someone being "annoying" and no one will respond, which to me, means that "annoying" is just one person's opinion. I think what's happened to Anne Hathaway is that someone's humble or not so humble opinion of her has become the "law."

[chonies]

I think the Hathaway "hate" was probably media saturation with some mean-girling thrown in. There's probably something missing to the story*, but I suppose it's a bit like pumpkin spice. I like pumpkin & spice as flavors, but now it's everywhere and I'm bored by the overkill and the ubiquity. I think the idea is kind of overblown, but I didn't pay attention to her or the campaign, and media snark still managed to seep into my hamsterball.

*a few half-hearted ideas--maybe it was the Oscar-baity project (a tragic, ugly person!), or maybe it was the project itself because ALW isn't for everyone, or maybe it was just people reading her as "intense" or some other arbitrary personality trait that works for men but not for women.