Why all the Hatha hate?

She was too happy, too earnest, too confident, with a face ‘reminiscent of the recession’. What did Anne Hathaway do to deserve such vitriol?

ROBBIE COLLIN

Anne’s supposed crimes seemed to change depending on who and when you asked. wehumans are suspicious of perfection: when we can’t easily spot someone’s flaws, we’ll often come up with some ourselves, just to be on the safe side. Looking back, that now seems to be what went wrong 10 or so years ago for Anne Hathaway, who, on the press tour for her film Mothers’ Instinct, reflected on the extraordinary blasts of online and offline vitriol that blew her career off course in the 2010s. It was a precarious moment for Hollywood stardom in general, with both #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite rumbling away – though Anne’s supposed crimes (a) could hardly be described as crimes at all, and (b) seemed to change depending on who and when you asked. One…

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