Audience members reported hearing audible gasps during the world premiere of William Oldroyd's surprise Sundance selection 'Eileen' as the star reveals the reason she signed on.
00:00Anne Hathaway is opening up about an eyebrow-raising question she was asked when she was just a young actress.
00:07Hathaway took the microphone during a brief Q&A session following the world premiere of the new film Eileen at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
00:15The Oscar winner standing alongside the film's cast offered a polite apology if what she was about to say turned into an annoying headline.
00:22Hathaway explained that her path towards partnering with director William Oldroyd on Eileen started when she saw his 2016 period piece Lady Macbeth starring Florence Pugh.
00:43His skill meant a great deal because Hathaway said that she just remembered one of the very first questions she ever got asked as a 16-year-old actress.
00:52Which meant, you know, and had to do press was, are you a good girl or a bad girl?
00:57I was 16.
00:59And my 16-year-old self wanted to respond with this film.
01:04Eileen follows a peculiar young woman, played by Thomasin McKenzie, whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery,
01:11shuffling between her father's emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works, alongside colleagues who have ostracized her.
01:17When an intoxicating woman, played by Hathaway, joins the staff, Eileen is taken.
01:22However, her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.
01:25Audience members inside the theater reported hearing audible gasps when the film takes dark and unexpected twists.
01:32Early response on Twitter has been overwhelmingly positive for the film, which is seeking distribution here in Park City, Utah.
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