Anne Hathaway

[petitesuite]

I agree with your last 'half hearted' idea chonies, but will add that I think a lot of people got tipped over the edge when she stared down at her Oscar and said "it came true." I am not a Hathahater but even to me that moment came off as SO theater kid--performative sincerity rather than the real thing, you know?

Having said that if she were a man no one would be saying boo. Eddie Redmayne danced his ass off for his Oscar as much as she did and got the merest fraction of the criticism.

[Mugsy]

I just assumed it was part of an actor's job, when warranted, to troll for an Oscar. The movie is potential Oscar bait, the performances are good, so get out there and stump for your statue, which will make us all look good. Part of the job.

Why do some people post her name with a capital E, as in AnnE? Is having an e at the end of Anne considered silly or pretentious that it has to be pointed out as such?

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Sept 7, 2015 13:49:43 GMT -4 petitesuite said:

Having said that if she were a man no one would be saying boo. Eddie Redmayne danced his ass off for his Oscar as much as she did and got the merest fraction of the criticism.

It depends on who the actor is and how crazy their fans are. Benedict Cumberbatch danced (it is part of their job as you mentioned) and he got a lot of criticism for all kinds of odd reasons. Eddie danced just as hard with the same campaign. Its all so weird you just have to laugh about it.

Sept 7, 2015 14:10:26 GMT -4 Mugsy said:

Why do some people post her name with a capital E, as in AnnE? Is having an e at the end of Anne considered silly or pretentious that it has to be pointed out as such?

I believe its in reference to an event she attended where her name was listed as "Ann" instead of "Anne" and she said something about it. After that people started putting the "E" at the end as a joke. It's kind of funny...but I'm 12 sometimes.

[petitesuite]

Man I'm dumb, I always thought the E was an Anne of Green Gables reference. I should get out more.

[Martini Girl]

And I thought it was a play on Tom Cruise always referring to Katie and Kate, so we started writing her name KatE (w/ emphasis on the E, so in essence, Katie). I'll show myself out.

[Auroranorth]

Eh, I find her not all that exciting as an actress, but she's pretty low on my annoyance scale. She did campaign hard for an Oscar but that's normal, she was just a little more upfront about it instead of simpering that it was enough to be nominated.

[carrier76]

My middle name is Anne, and I have always gotten irritated with people who can't be arsed to spell it properly.

[thneed]

Sept 7, 2015 11:46:55 GMT -4 chonies said:

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.

I never got it. People complained that Anne Hathaway was too enthusiastic in her career and it was off-putting, but Kristin Stewart is too cold in dong it, and so she's an ungrateful bitch and we hate her too. The entire celebrity gossip world is about mean girling. That's why it's scary when people start it actually take the stuff we talk about on here seriously. That's why only the starlets get the hate, or else the guys that primarily appeal to women, like Justin Beiber and they all do. (The Jennifer Lawrence backlash, and it's coming, is going to be INTENSE).

And honestly, what Anne Hathaway did during Oscar season is the same as every other winner, down to her acceptance speech. I thought it was Smurfy as hell when Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne used theirs to talk about the diseases the characters they played had, but that's the job. Even board favourite Julianne Moore. Even cute British men Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch and Colin Firth. (The notion some people have that the Brits are all about the art and hate Hollywood and its shallowness? Garbage). Even noted outlaw rebel Christian Bale. All of them, except perhaps Mo'Nique.

But I don't think anyone really disliked Anne Hathaway. (Well, no more than the fact that no one is unanimously liked. Everyone has some people who dislike them). She seems solid to most people I think - rose above the Disney ghetto to do real work, all her movies have either been massive hits or critical darlings, she makes money, tries new roles, never complains about anything, looks pretty on the red carpet and there's never a word of her being a diva on set, and she doesn't share dumb political beliefs.

I think the only way rampant ageism in Hollywood is going to change is if women start working behind the camera. Start a production company. Commission scripts for yourself where women of an aged 35 can be 3-dimensional leads. Buy the rights to books, graphic novels, or foreign movies with the characters you want to play. Play those. Nancy Myers can't do it alone, people. Once these movies make money Hollywood (which despite its image is incredibly conservative) Hollywood will make more of them.

[luminosa]

Sept 7, 2015 18:46:53 GMT -4 carrier76 said:

My middle name is Anne, and I have always gotten irritated with people who can't be arsed to spell it properly.

Her snide remark annoyed me at the time but now I kind of side with her. It was engraved on a freaking award incorrectly. Do your homework, people.

[prisma]

My recollection of Anne's behavior during the great Oscar poledance of a couple of years ago is that she was a bit more obnoxious than the standard. This is not an exact comparison, but something about Lea Michele that reminds me of Anne at her worst. It wasn't quantity, it was the quality. Maybe it's the theater kid in both of them. It was just overly grating at the time.

That said, after going away for a while, Anne totally won me over with her piece singing Broadway versions of rap songs with Jimmy Fallon. To this day, her version of "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" will pop in my head and it always makes me happy.) She goes above and beyond to sell the performance, which is basically the same thing she was doing in her Oscar campaign, so...I realize she's damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. By comparison, when Gwyneth Paltrow did the same sketch on Jimmy Fallon, she came off as very, "tee-hee! Look at how funny I am" and wasn't anywhere near as good as Anne, IMO.

And to conclude this rambling post, I have to confess that I HAAAAAAAAATED "Rachel Getting Married." Hated it. That had to do more with the filmakers than Anne, but dear Lord did that movie bug me.

ETA: Tom and Lorenzo featured Eddie Redmayne on their site today and basically gave a little summary of the Oscar thing. I think Anne and Eddie are considered to be in their own category of Oscar campaigning.

That may seem harsh, but we’ve barely recovered from last year’s Redmayne Oscar poledance, which was fairly unprecedented in the history of male celebrity poledances. Endless months of Eddie leaning to one side, mouth agape, hair artfully tousled, a perpetual look of “aw shucks” (or whatever the English equivalent is) on his face. It was calculated and precise as poledances go, and it was obviously successful for him, since he won the damn thing. Basically, it was the male version of the Anne Hathaway Oscar poledance, except without the eyerollingly awful acceptance speech at the end. And the only thing that made it bearable was the fact that he was one of the few male stars willing to treat the red carpet like a catwalk and model his ass off as he walked it.