Anne Hathaway says it was in the 2000s that she had to kiss 10 male actors in one day to test “if the chemistry between them works”

Anne Hathaway recently gave an interview to V magazine, where his film, released in March, a The Idea of ​​You was also discussed. In the romantic comedy, the actress also contributed as a producer, so she also had the opportunity to develop new film methods: for example, regarding the so-called “chemistry tests”, with which she herself had negative experiences in the earlier years of her career.

In the 200’s it was considered normal to ask an actor to kiss other actors to test their chemistry – it happened to me too. They told me: ten guys are coming today and you have the role. Aren’t you excited to smack them all?

Hathaway, who at the time was thinking about whether there might be something wrong with him, recalled an incident because he didn’t feel excited at all.

I thought that sounded disgusting. I was so young and aware of how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘complicated’, so I pretended to be excited and went for it.

Regarding the memory, the actress added: all this was not a kind of power play, and no one wanted to hurt her, it was simply that “times were very different back then”.

As the The Idea of ​​You As for her “chemistry test”, the actress tried a special method as a producer: as she said, they asked the actors coming to the casting to put on a song that they thought their character would love and that they could make Hathaway’s character dance to.

We did a short improvisation. I was sitting in a chair like we came in from dinner or a walk or something and we hit play and we just started dancing together

– explained the actress, to whom in the end Nicholas Galitzin became his film partner, who is a Alabama Shakes number you chose during the test mentioned above.