Anne Hathaway Says Fraud is a Deal Breaker

Okay. At least she learnt her lesson from dating that one total con-artist ex-boyfriend. For the new issue of Vogue magazine, Anne Hathaway talks about that former relationship and that bothersome criminal matter, regarding an ex, at which time she had to be questioned by the FBI. It’s weird though. Hathaway is being questioned for the November 2010 issue of Vogue, pictures and interview excerpts below, and she’s being asked the usual myriad of cookie-cutter questions. For her new movie with Jake Gyllenhaal, she’s asked about he, the movie, sex scenes, ageing in Hollywood (she’s 27), and also about how it was shooting the Breakfast at Tiffany’s-inspired clusterf**k as shot by Mario Testino. Then, in a manner not too invasive, she’s asked about relationships; specifically, relationship deal breakers. She is the one who brings up her ex, Raffaello Follieri, essentially. Though she’s clearly still uncomfortable talking about it.

On the photo shoot with Mario Testino: “It’s Holly Golightly meets Marge Simpson….It was true glamour. Not just the clothes and the jewels but that feeling that glamour can produce in you, which is like a dream.”
On ageing in Hollywood: “I’m entering a new phase of my career where the stories are becoming a lot more specific about where the character is in her life,” Hathaway says. “People don’t always want to tell stories about women in their 30s and 40s and 50s. Obviously, some of those ages are pretty far off for me, but I know it’s coming. What I’ve observed and what I’ve imagined—and definitely what I’m hoping—happens as you get older is that there’s a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time,” she says. “I guess that I’ll find out.”
On ‘Love and Other Drugs’: “I tried not to like the script as much as I did, because it scared me,” Hathaway says. “What if it becomes a melodrama? What if the audience doesn’t find these challenging characters charming? There were so many things that could possibly go wrong with it. I heard her voice so strongly in my head, and when that happens I just can’t tune it out,” she says. “She feels like a girl you might actually know.”
Anne on the sex scenes: “This movie certainly has a lot of nerve,” she says, arching an eyebrow. “Oy. I hope that audiences are OK with all the nerve.”
On how nudity fits into this film: “These are people who have no trouble taking their clothes off—in a way, their bodies are their currency,” she explains. “But they’re terrified of exposing their vulnerability, of becoming emotionally naked.”
On finding emotional scenes difficult: “I was a wreck from start to finish,” she admits. “I think I cried every single day. I had to lean so much more heavily on everyone around me than I’m used to. I’m used to pulling my own weight. But I totally fell apart.”
On her felon ex, Raffaello Follieri. “Gosh, I hate talking about the breakup, because I don’t want it to define me, but as is to be expected, there were a lot of lingering trust issues.” (As [she and the interviewer] meet, the jewellery he gave her during their relationship—which she turned over to the FBI last spring—is about to be publicly auctioned off.) “And I think that making a film about trust that required a great deal of trust—well, it was a challenge to get there.”
On deal breakers: “Uh . . . fraud?” she says, exploding with laughter. Then she gets more pensive. “I’ve always believed in people’s capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I’m not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.”
On what she would she say she’s learned: “To be more wary. It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I’m very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.”
On her new boyfriend: Hathaway is seeing an actor named Adam Shulman, whom she met through mutual friends. “We hit it off immediately, but it took us a pretty long time to get together,” Hathaway recalls. “He thought that I had a boyfriend, and I thought that he had a girlfriend, so I thought that I’d better keep my distance because I didn’t want to be that girl.” Once they figured out that neither of them was attached, Hathaway says, “things sped up a bit—and I think I’ll leave it at that.”