Anne Hathaway will get emotional onstage at ‘The Thought Of You’ World Premiere on March 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Daniel Boczarski/Getty Photos for Amazon MGM Studios
Anne Hathaway was moved to tears by the viewers’s response to her new movie, The Thought of You, on the SXSW Movie & TV Pageant on Saturday, March 16.
The actress, 41, cried as she thanked the gang for “being so related” to the rom-com, which costars Nicholas Galitzine as 24-year-old boy band member Hayes who unexpectedly falls for Hathaway’s 40-year-old single mother Solène.
“I can’t speak,” Hathaway informed the viewers, in response to footage shared by Selection, as a fan referred to as out, “I really like you!”
“I really like you a lot,” she added.“You haven’t any thought the present that you simply’ve simply given us together with your responsiveness by being so related to each little nuance on this. I’ll always remember this screening.”
“I really like you a lot!” Anne Hathaway is in tears on the SXSW premiere of “The Thought of You.” pic.twitter.com/OGsUXhIr3D
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Hathaway continued to elucidate that she couldn’t assist however say sure to enjoying Solène after producers Cathy Schulman and Gabrielle Union got here to her with the story. “For some purpose, we discuss coming-of-age tales as being one thing that occurs to you within the earliest a part of your life, and I don’t learn about you, however I really feel like I preserve blooming,” Hathaway informed the viewers of showcasing the Might-December romance.
She added: “I don’t wish to be pigeonholed and don’t wish to be positioned in a field of what kind of movies I’ve to be making due to my age, gender and since I received an Oscar. I wish to have enjoyable, dammit. It speaks to me.”
Galitzine, 29, was additionally moved by the gang’s response to the movie and stated that his chemistry with Hathaway was instantly palpable within the audition course of.
Anne Hathaway attends the ‘The Thought of You’ world premiere throughout SXSW 2024 on March 16 in Austin, Texas. Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Photos
“These rooms will be extraordinarily intimidating and unnatural, however there was one thing virtually religious that occurred there, whereby I felt this quick connection to Annie,” he stated. “We had a simpatico, a shared humorousness. It was simply very simple. I keep in mind leaving that room considering, ‘No matter what occurs with this, I’m so happy with this particular factor that occurred there.’ They gave me a name the subsequent day: ‘We would like you to be part of this film.’”
Hathaway — who wore a silver Patou minidress detailed with geometric accents on the pink carpet earlier than turning into a extra informal search for the post-screening Q&A — stated that though they had been texting and leaving one another voice memos earlier than capturing started, the primary day on set in Europe was actually a “bonding ritual” for her and Galitzine.
“That first day, there was a second the place we needed to bounce into freezing chilly water and fake prefer it was essentially the most sensual Mediterranean tub … as soon as we each received in there, we simply checked out one another like, ‘OK, we’re doing this.’ And we discovered our shivery sexiness collectively,” she informed the gang. “From that second to the final second 20-some odd hours later, I simply regarded and was like, ‘I’m in good palms on this one. I received an amazing accomplice.’ We couldn’t have landed higher, and I nonetheless really feel that manner.”
The Thought of You, which hits Amazon Prime on Might 2, relies on a e-book by Robinne Lee and directed by Michael Showalter, recognized for The Massive Sick and The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
