Anne Hathaway

[alby]

The girl in Devil Wears Prada isn't described as mousy...is she? I never got that impression.

I think that is just how I imagined her. Actually, now that I think about it, I probably just saw the character as looking like the author who is a regular looking woman.

[prisma]

I got the new Vanity Fair in the mail yesterday and Anne is pictured in the "Tom Ford's Hollywood" section. Besides trying to figure out what she was doing in there, I was just astounded at how huge her facial features are. Freakishly so. Not pretty at all, in my opinion.

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I always pictured the lead in DWP as being athletic and tall, but I can still see Anne in the part.

I have to admit, I am a little jealous of the large features, as mine are smaller and don't stand out sometimes in pictures.

[kafka]

She's going to play Jane Austen in an upcoming film and some critics seem to be outraged. But she thinks she can do it:

Anne Hathaway says claims she should not play Jane Austen are fair but wrong.

The announcement that the Princess Diaries actress will play the British author in Becoming Jane has left some saying she is the wrong woman.

She says she understands fans' concerns. "I know there are a lot of people out there that are horrified that the girl from the Princess Diaries is playing Jane Austen," she told the Daily Mail. "I don't blame them."

Hathaway added, however, that she also values Austen. "I love her as much as any of the biggest fans so I don't want to go in there and mess it up," explained the Brooklyn-born star. "I've been reading her since I was 14 and in reading her, I know who she is. I have a handle on her spirit."

She also thinks there is more to the author than some see. She said: "We always think of Jane Austen as this woman who was a spinster, but she had this love affair which was one of the key relationships in her life.

"It awakened her sexuality and inspired a lot of the relationships she later wrote about in her novels."

Personally? I'm horrified.

[ahenobarbus]

She starts getting nude, and suddenly they want her for Jane Austin? How does that work? (Or will we be seeing Jane Austin's breasts for the first time?)

[thesurlymermaid]

I always pictured her as the lead in the Nanny Diaries. Is that even being made into a movie? It should be.

[Fraggle Rock]

IMDB has Scarlett Johansson attached to it

[Sunnyhorse]

tori said:

IMDB has Scarlett Johansson attached to it

If Scarlett Johannson was my kids' nanny, I'd be a **** to her, too. That doesn't strike me as very good casting!

Topic? Anne Hathaway seems like a nice, thoughtful person, and I think she's as likely to have a handle on Jane Austen as any young American actress. I'll give the film a shot.

[thesurlymermaid]

sunnyhorse said:

tori said:

IMDB has Scarlett Johansson attached to it

If Scarlett Johannson was my kids' nanny, I'd be a **** to her, too. That doesn't strike me as very good casting!

No kidding. That's very disappointing news...Scarlett Johansson is way too Hollywood-looking to portray that character. I still think Anne HAthaway would be PERFECT. I could see her pulling off the scene where she has to go to the party dressed as a teletubby. Johansson, not so much.

[Karen]

Becoming Jane set pics here and here.