Anne Hathaway has never had a public reputation as a big partier or drinker. Even so, she didn’t love the role alcohol was playing in her life—so she quit last October.
The actress opened up about her decision in a recent appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, though she says the change isn’t necessarily permanent. It does, however, have a lot to do with Jonathan, her two-year-old son with husband Adam Shulman. “I’m going to stop drinking while my son is living in my house,” she told DeGeneres, “just because I don’t totally love the way I do it, and he’s getting to an age where he really does need me all the time in the morning.”
“I did one school run one day where I dropped him off at school; I wasn’t driving, but I was hung over and that was enough for me,” Hathaway continued. “I didn’t love that one.”
Hathaway shared a story about another time drinking impacted her work: a hungover business meeting after a night out with Matthew McConaughey, her costar in the upcoming film Serenity, and his wife, Camila Alves. “We drank the night away, and then I had to go to a meeting with Steven Knight, our director, the next day, and I was just kind of…have you guys ever had to go to a meeting hungover?” Hathaway asked the audience. “I was just kinda stumbling in with one eye open, and I was trying to convince him about certain things about my character.”
“And at the end of it I said, ‘Listen, I have a confession. I was hungover the entire time.’ And he just goes, “Oh, really? I couldn’t tell,'” Hathaway said. “Then two days later we had another meeting and I showed up and he said, ‘Oh, now I can tell.'”
See the full interview, below:
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