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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00:00Anne Hathaway shared about her experience of early 2000s when she was asked to kiss
00:0610 guys for a chemistry check.
00:08I was told, we have 10 guys coming today and you are cast, aren't you excited to make out
00:14with all of them?
00:16And I thought, is there something wrong with me?
00:19Because I wasn't excited, Hathaway told V Magazine.
00:23However, the actress didn't specify what project the audition was for.
00:27I thought it sounded gross.
00:29She elaborated, and I was so young and terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything being
00:36labelled difficult, so I just pretended I was excited and got on with it.
00:42Anne mentioned this practice was considered normal during the early aughts.
00:46It wasn't a power play, no one was trying to be awful or hurt me.
00:50She added, it was just a very different time, and now we know better.
00:55Meanwhile, for a new movie, the idea of you, Hathaway played her part well as a producer
01:01and conducted her chemistry checks a bit differently.
01:04We asked each of the actors coming in to choose a song that they felt their character would
01:10love, that they would put on to get my character to dance, and then we'd do a short little
01:16improv.
01:17She revealed, I was sitting in a chair like we had come in from dinner or a walk or something,
01:22we pressed play and we just started dancing together.
01:26The film, which is based on Robin Lee's 2017 novel of the same name, centres on a 40-year-old
01:33singer-mother, played by Hathaway, who develops feelings for Nicholas Gladstein's character,
01:39a 24-year-old international music sensation.