The Idea Of You actor recalls an incident from the 2000's when she was asked to kiss 10 men for the on-screen chemistry check in order to get casted in the project.
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00:00 Anne Hathaway shared about her experience of early 2000s when she was asked to kiss
00:06 10 guys for a chemistry check.
00:08 "I was told, 'We have 10 guys coming today and you are cast.
00:12 Aren't you excited to make out with all of them?'
00:16 And I thought, 'Is there something wrong with me?'
00:19 Because I wasn't excited," Hathaway told V Magazine.
00:23 However, the actress didn't specify what project the audition was for.
00:27 "I thought it sounded gross.
00:29 It was elaborated, and I was so young and terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything
00:35 being labelled difficult.
00:37 So I just pretended I was excited and got on with it."
00:42 Anne mentioned this practice was considered normal during the early aughts.
00:46 "It wasn't a power play.
00:48 No one was trying to be awful or hurt me," she added.
00:51 "It was just a very different time, and now we know better."
00:55 Meanwhile, for a new movie, the idea of Hugh Hathaway played her part well as a producer
01:01 and conducted her chemistry checks a bit differently.
01:04 "We asked each of the actors coming in to choose a song that they felt their character
01:10 would love that they would put on to get my character to dance, and then we'd do a short
01:15 little improv," she revealed.
01:17 "I was sitting in a chair like we had come in from dinner or a walk or something.
01:22 We pressed play and we just started dancing together."
01:26 The film, which is based on Robin Lee's 2017 novel of the same name, centres on a 40-year-old
01:33 singer-mother played by Hathaway who develops feelings for Nicholas Gladstein's character,
01:39 a 24-year-old international music sensation.
01:43 [music]
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