Anne Hathaway Dishes On Getting In Shape For “Catwoman”
Posted on July 09, 2012 at 3:00 PM
I have a feeling we are going to see Anne Hathaway like we’ve never seen her before. The Hollywood actress recently took the time to sit down and talk about her upcoming role in “Catwoman” with Parade Magazine and how she got in shape for the part. Here are some highlights of what she said:
For Anne Hathaway, it wasn’t just the constraints of her Catwoman character’s leather suit that had her logging in relentless hours at the gym, it also was the tricky maneuvers she had to do while wearing it.
“It wasn’t just about looking a certain way. I had to learn how to fight. I had to become strong,” Hathaway says.
“I feel in situations like this — I don’t know what other actresses have gone through — but sometimes there’s a mandate that comes to you and deals with how you have to look. The way I was treated on this movie was, ‘Learn how to do what you need to do and then however you look, that’s the way the character looks,’” she added. “And I felt, as a woman, very protected in that way.”
From the start, Hathaway understood the physical limits she would have to push to keep up with her male counterparts.
“When I got the part, Chris [Nolan] said, ‘So, there’s going to a lot of fighting and when we did Inception, Joe [Joseph Gordon-Levitt] got in really good shape. Joe went to the gym for months so that when we did his fight scenes, he did his own fighting. I really liked that.’ I said, ‘Gotcha. I am reading between the lines here.’ So I went to the gym and came out when we wrapped. And it was a complete transformation. I had never done anything like that.”
I have a feeling we are going to see Anne Hathaway like we’ve never seen her before. The Hollywood actress recently took the time to sit down and talk about her upcoming role in “Catwoman” with Parade Magazine and how she got in shape for the part. Here are some highlights of what she said:
“I feel in situations like this — I don’t know what other actresses have gone through — but sometimes there’s a mandate that comes to you and deals with how you have to look. The way I was treated on this movie was, ‘Learn how to do what you need to do and then however you look, that’s the way the character looks,’” she added. “And I felt, as a woman, very protected in that way.”