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Anne Hathaway is praising Christopher Nolan for coming to her side during the days of the toxic "Hathahate" movement. The actress spoke about the moment in time in a new profile with Vanity Fair and said that co-hosting the 2013 Oscars and taking home the honor for best supporting actress for 'Les Misérables' marked a tipping point of over exposure where her online and media reputation turned "toxic" — to the point where she says it cost her movie roles.
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00:00Anne Hathaway is praising Christopher Nolan for coming to her side during the days of the toxic
00:04Hathahate movement. The actress spoke about the moment in time in a new profile with Vanity Fair
00:09and said that co-hosting the Oscars with James Franco and taking home the honor for best
00:14supporting actress for Les Mis marked a tipping point of overexposure where her online and media
00:19reputation turned toxic to the point where she says it cost her movie roles. The viral phenomenon
00:24was dubbed Hathahate and had no actual cause other than her rise in popularity to the point
00:29where some deemed her behavior annoying. Hathaway said after winning the Oscar a lot of people
00:34wouldn't give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become
00:38online. Then came Christopher Nolan casting her in his blockbuster film Interstellar in 2014.
00:45I had an angel in Christopher Nolan who did not care about that and gave me one of the most
00:48beautiful roles I've had in one of the best films that I've been a part of. She continued I don't
00:53know if he knew that he was backing me at the time but it had that effect and my career did not lose
00:58momentum the way it could have if he hadn't backed me. She added of that period of time
01:03humiliation is such a rough thing to go through. The key is to not let it close you down. You have
01:08to stay bold and it can be hard because you're like if I stay safe if I hug the middle if I don't
01:13draw too much attention to myself I won't hurt. For more on this story head to thr.com and for the
01:19latest entertainment news and updates keep watching the Hollywood Reporter News.
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