Summary

• Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar rescued Anne Hathaway's career by offering her a significant role.
• Despite online negativity affecting her casting opportunities, Nolan backed Hathaway for the role.
• Hathaway's career was at a tipping point, but Interstellar maintained her momentum with a dramatic role.

Anne Hathaway explains how Interstellar saved her career. Hathaway played opposite Matthew McConaughey in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 science-fiction adventure film. In Interstellar, Hathaway played Amelia Brand, one of the researchers involved in the film’s space exploration mission.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Hathaway explains how Interstellar helped her career. The actress explained that “a lot of people wouldn’t give [her] roles because they were so concerned about how toxic [her] identity had become online.” Nolan did not care about this fact, and still cast her in Interstellar. Hathaway described her part in Interstellar as “one of the most beautiful roles [she’s] had.” Because of her work in Interstellar, her career did not lose momentum in the way that it could have. Check out the full quote from Hathaway below:

A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online. I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of. I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect. And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.

Anne Hathaway’s Career Arc Explained

Hathaway had her breakout role in 2001, when she played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries. At only 19 years old, Hathaway was an unknown entity at the time of The Princess Diaries’ release. From there, she went on to play a series of princess or princess-adjacent roles, including in Ella Enchanted and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

Since she got her start, Hathaway has gone in and out of being considered an A-list actress. She has been nominated for Oscars twice, for Rachel Getting Married and Les Misérables, winning Best ing Actress for the latter film. On the other side of her career, however, Hathaway had been in goofy roles in movies like Get Smart, Bride Wars, and Love & Other Drugs. So, in the early 2010s, the seriousness with which people in Hollywood treated her career was split.

Nolan ended up giving her not just one chance at a dramatic role, but two. In 2012, the director cast her as Selina Kyle (aka Catwoman) in The Dark Knight Rises. Interstellar came two years later, showing off her ability to play dramatic roles in large-scale adventure films. Hathaway has not yet teamed up with Nolan for a third time, but still has the opportunity to as Nolan develops his first post-Oppenheimer work.

Interstellar is available to stream on Prime Video and Paramount+.

Source: Vanity Fair