Winds of change blow the hill where Hollywood is transformed into a sign. Nothing is alien to the passage of time, not even the film industry, which experiences a kind of chiseling that turns the clock into the best of artists; One of the corners that has changed the most in recent decades is that of casting, whose worst side comes to light—again—with the anecdote that a very young Anne Hathaway experienced back in 2000.
The interpreter recalled that in an interview she gave to V Magazine and that is understood within the promotional round of his latest film, The idea of you. Asked about the processes of selecting actors and actresses for the films, the winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2012 for Les Miserables has chosen to respond with contrast to highlight what is done now compared to what was done before, not so long ago. Three words: chemistry test.
“Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?”
“It was normal to ask a performer to kiss other candidates to check the chemistry between them, which really seems to me to be the worst way to do it,” he says, traveling directly to his case, the test he passed to be part of the cast of a film whose name he does not reveal: “They told me: ‘We have ten guys for the casting. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I was wondering if there was a problem with me, because I wasn’t enthusiastic about it. “It seemed disgusting to me.”
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The performer was only 22 years old when she became one of the most famous actresses in the world, which meant constant scrutiny of her life.
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The actress points out in ‘InStyle’ that she has had to deal with situations like paying the bill with “15 people at the table.”
24 years have passed since then. “I was very young and I was terribly worried about losing everything after being labeled ‘complicated’, so I pretended I was excited and moved on,” she confesses, downplaying the lack of ethics in what happened and simply attributing it to the characteristics of that distant present: “It was not an abuse of power, no one wanted to be unpleasant to me or hurt me. Those were different times and now we are much more aware.”
The film that gives meaning to her interview tour has Hathaway as the protagonist and, also, as a producer. That is to say, she also participates in the process of choosing the characters; To further curl the curl, and placing a mirror towards what once was, she chose the main male character. The film, based on a novel by Robinne Lee, tells the story of a single mother who falls in love with the lead singer of a boy band; She is 40, he is 24; She is Anna Hathaway, he is Nicholas Galitzine.
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The British actor arrived at that role through an ingenious test devised, among other people, by Hathaway. “We asked the selected actors to pick a song they thought her character would love and play to make the girl dance, and then we did a little improvisation. I was sitting after having gone to dinner or for a walk, we pressed play and started dancing,” says the actress.
Galitzine chose an Alabama Shakes song: “I heard Brittany Howard’s voice and I smiled. He saw me, relaxed and started dancing. Nobody was faking it or trying to force things. We were just dancing. I looked at Michael Showalter, our director, and he was beaming. “Sparks were flying!” From that chemistry test to these dance steps, there are two decades that have chiseled the letters of the Hollywood Sign with the weight that only change gives to time.
