Anne Hathaway looks back with grace and grace at her “chronically stressed” younger self.
The Devil Wears Prada actress, 41, spoke about being under constant pressure as a younger actress and taking life for granted.
“As a young woman who was previously chronically stressed, I remember thinking one day: ‘You’re taking this for granted. “You take your life for granted,” she explained in the first episode of New York Magazine’s “The Interview” program.
“‘You have no idea. Something could fall in the sky, and that would turn out the lights.'” So when I find old instincts rising, I say to myself, “You’re not going to die stressed.”
The “Princess Diaries” actress didn’t have an answer as to why she felt so nervous, but she said she “don’t know how to breathe yet.”
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“That was really complicated,” she shared. “It’s actually a pretty big answer, and the simple answer is literally everything. I’ve been in my head about a lot of things.”
In addition to difficulty breathing, Hathaway has also spoken about not feeling comfortable in her body, which she considers a somatic experience.
“I feel a bit too exposed to discuss the alienation I felt from my body, but there was a lot of physical pressure there,” she said.
The “Les Misérables” star said she faced some uncomfortable experiences when she was starting out as an actress.
Earlier this month, Hathaway told V Magazine that she had previously been asked to kiss 10 men for a chemistry test.
“I was told: ‘We have 10 guys coming today and you are actors.’” “Aren’t you excited to deal with them all?” she recalled.
“And I thought: Is there something wrong with me?” Because I wasn’t excited. “I thought it looked disgusting,” she said.
Although she wasn’t interested in doing the job, she said she agreed to the test because she didn’t want to be described as “difficult.”
“This was not a power play, and no one was trying to be terrible or hurt me,” the Oscar winner said. “It was a completely different time and now we know better.”
