One of the brighter sides of the situation we’re currently in is how people and celebrities alike are leaning into being goofy on social media. Now, Anne Hathaway is getting in on the fun, specifically with the viral the pillow challenge. But she found a way to give it her own special spin.
In case you missed it (and seriously, how could you?), the pillow challenge is quite simple: You take a pillow and belt it around yourself while not wearing any other items of clothing. That’s it. That’s the trend. It’s fashion!
It’s been happening online for a while now, but Hathaway just got in on the action and picked a perfect quote from The Princess Diaries to excuse her slightly delayed timing. “A Queen is never late; everyone else is simply early.” ? #pillowchallenge,” she wrote in the caption of her photo on Instagram. She’s wearing multiple pillows, black combat boots, headphones, and an inexplicable (but welcome) pair of butterfly wings. Simply put, we love it see it.
The responses in the comments section were equally joyful. “With leadership like this- I’M MOVING TO GENOVIA,” actor Ana Villafañe wrote. Jessica Chastain said, “Hahaha I LOVE YOU! ❤️” And we love this fan who brought in another Anne Hathaway classic, The Devil Wears Prada: “Pillow challenge in quarantine during spring? GROUNDBREAKING!”
Anne Hathaway isn’t the only star to take part in the pillow challenge. Tracee Ellis Ross also wondered about being tardy to the party writing, “Am I too late?”
Meanwhile, Halle Berry went full-on glam for her take on the trend in all black everything. “You already KNOW you couldn’t keep me from the #PillowChallenge ?,” she wrote.
They all look amazing, but our vote for best post goes to Her Royal Highness Princess Mia of Genovia. No question.
Anne Hathaway confirmed in late July that she’s expecting her second child with husband Adam Shulman, but in her announcement, she also shared that her path to pregnancy wasn’t an easy one. Since then, the actress has been speaking candidly about her experience with infertilityto let other women going through the same thing know they’re not alone. In a new interview with The Daily Mail, published Thursday (August 1), Hathaway opened up even more about her struggle to get pregnant, saying that going through “infertility hell” left her feeling “broken” and “devastated.”
“Each time I was trying to get pregnant and it wasn’t going my way, someone else would manage to conceive,” she told the Mail. “I knew intellectually that it didn’t happen just to torment me, but, to be honest, it felt a little bit like it did.”
This is precisely why she addressed her fertility issues in her July pregnancy announcement. Alongside a black-and-white picture of herself, Hathaway wrote in the caption: “For everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies. Sending you extra love.”
In the interview, she also explained her decision to be so open in her post: “When I said to them: ‘This has happened to me, it broke my heart, it broke me,’ so many of them said: ‘It happened to me, too,’ and that was the thing that allowed me to come through it, to feel my pain without having anyone rush in to define it or cure it.”
Hathaway went on to discuss her feelings about social media and how Instagram does not make easy for women struggling to have a baby. “I sometimes think Instagram makes life look really breezy, but that’s not the whole story,” she said. “By leaving out the sad part, we make women who are struggling with this feel isolated and lonely; we make them feel like it’s all their fault. I wanted to be more sensitive than that.”
The actress, who has a 3-year-old son, also said more conversations about infertility need to be had so that we can collectively put an end to the social stigmas surrounding pregnancy and children.
“What made matters worse was that I was embarrassed to feel like that because there was no conversation to be had about it. This is something people don’t talk about, and I think they should,” Hathaway told the Daily Mail.
“So, when I was writing that post, I was thinking about that one follower I might reach, the woman who’s in hell about this and can’t figure out why it’s not happening for her,” Hathaway said. “She’s going to see my announcement and, while I understand she will be happy for me, I also know that something about it will make her feel worse. I just wanted to say: ‘Look, this wasn’t as easy for me as it looks.'”
Anne Hathaway has a baby on the way. The actress shared the exciting news Wednesday on Instagram, revealing to the world that she and her husband, Adam Shulman, are expecting three years after the birth of their first child, Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman.
“It’s not for a movie,” Hathaway captioned a photo of her growing baby bump. She also hinted that this pregnancy hasn’t been so easy. “All kidding aside, for everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies. Sending you extra love,” she wrote.
Hathaway didn’t explain what her difficulties were specifically,, but she has been very willing to have honest discussions about motherhood. In 2017, she even advocated for paid parental leave at the United Nations, sharing how the experience of becoming a mom had been a transformative one that changed her priorities.
“”I remember I experienced a shift in consciousness that gave me the ability to maintain my love of career and also cherish something else, someone else, so much, much more,” she said. “Like so many parents, I wondered how I was going to balance my work with my new role as parent, and, in that moment, I remember that the statistic for the U.S.’s policy for maternity leave flashed through my mind.”
Speaking to Glamour last year, Anne Hathaway also opened up about how motherhood helped her come to terms with difficulties she faced in the past.
“How Johnny is going to feel about himself will have so much to do with how I feel about myself in front of him,” she said. “If I’m feeling insecure, I am very careful that I don’t show that. But I also work really hard to acknowledge that place, give room for that place, and then release myself from that place. I’m more loving now, and that includes toward myself.”
In The Hustle, two badass women are all it takes to scam men out of millions (if not billions) of dollars.
Thanks to Anna Delvey, who notoriously grifted her way through SoHo (and ended up inspiring not one but two competing TV shows about her con) and the entire Fyre Festival fiasco, the word “scammer” has been on the tip of everyone’s tongues for at least two years now. Of course, Hollywood has followed suit and made a blockbuster for our times with The Hustle.
In this adaptation of Frank Oz’s 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine, it appears that Rebel Wilson has met her match in Anne Hathaway. Hathaway plays a seasoned scammer who teaches Wilson “her sugar baby ways,” which include performative vulnerability, knife-throwing skills, and blending in with one’s surroundings. This is all so they can work together to swindle a young tech dynamo (played by Alex Sharp) out of his millions (or possibly billions, as Wilson points out). Why shake down so many rich men out of jewels and money, you ask? The answer is simple: because they can. Do you need a better reason than that?
“Why are women better suited for the con than men?” Hathaway asks in the movie. “Because no man will ever believe a woman is smarter than he is.”
Hathaway is no-doubt bringing her Ocean’s 8–honed heist chops to The Hustle (she was the best part of that movie, and I won’t be challenged), while Wilson delivers the riotous physical comedy she’s known for in movies like Pitch Perfect and the recently-released romantic comedy Isn’t It Romantic.
Check out the full trailer for The Hustle, below:
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It looks like scammer season has just been extended to May 10, 2019, which is when The Hustle hits theaters nationwide.
UPDATE: JANUARY 25, 2019, AT 12:17 P.M ET — There’s been an exciting development in the saga of The Princess Diaries 3. For those of you who have been following along, we know that Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews are both down to reprise their regal roles in the beloved movie franchise and that a script for a third chapter exists. Even still, though, the project hasn’t officially been green-lit.
Hathaway doubled-down on all of this when she stopped by Watch What Happens Live Thursday night (January 24), telling host Andy Cohen, “There is a script for the third movie. I want to do it. Julie [Andrews] wants to do it. Debra Martin Chase, our producer, wants to do it. We all really want it to happen. It’s just we don’t want to do it unless it’s perfect, because we love it just as much as you guys love it. It’s as important to us as it is to you. And we don’t want to deliver anything until it’s ready, but we’re working on it.”
I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. From this quote—and what’s been said in the past—it seems like The Princess Diaries 3 still has some hurdles to jump through before it hits theaters. But regardless, it’s comforting to know Hathaway is just as amped on the idea as we are.
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The Princess Diaries is one of pop culture’s crown jewels. The film series gave us so much: Julie Andrews eating a corndog, Mandy Moore’s greatest song of all time (“Stupid Cupid,” of course), a newfound appreciation for M&Ms—the list goes on. It also launched the career of Anne Hathaway, one of Hollywood’s most decorated actresses. The first two movies are cherished by millennials across the world, and we’ve been waiting on pins and needles for any news about a third installment.
Andrews herself started this chatter when she told BuzzFeed that she and Hathaway are down to make a third movie as a tribute to the late Gary Marshall, who directed the first two chapters.
“I think we might do it in honor of [Marshall],” Andrews said. “Annie had an idea that she wanted to pursue about it, and I’m all for it, so if she’d like to.”
Things escalated when Robert Schwartzman, who played Mia’s first boyfriend, Michael, told Glamour he’s also down to return. “It’d be cool to at least have the conversation about it if they want to do it,” he said.
This is all conjecture, though. Truthfully, it’s just actors humoring the press with vague but optimistic statements about a possible sequel. Stars do this all the time—cough, Big Little Lies, cough—and it tends to get fans’ hopes up prematurely. No one on Team Princess Diaries has said anything concrete about movie three.
Well, until now. Meg Cabot, who wrote the Princess Diaries book series, told Entertainment Weekly that a script for the third movie exists; it’s just a matter of when—and if—everyone wants to do it.
The author also confirmed Andrews’ statement about people wanting to make a third film “as a tribute” to Marshall. “So who knows? [It] could happen, as we say,” she said.
Unfortunately, Cabot didn’t reveal what the third script is about. “I am not allowed to say,” she said. “I would love to sit and talk about [it], but I can’t. I’m not allowed. But it’s really more following the movie than the books.”
She continued, “I think of [the books and movies] as two different universes. Like there’s The Princess Diaries universe that I created, which is, you know, amazing, and the Disney universe, that they created, which is equally amazing. And, you know, there’s fans of both, and fans who actually kind of like both of them at the same time.”
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.'”
