Anne Hathaway, the Oscar-nominated actress, is co-starring with actor Jake Gyllenhaal in the new movie Love and Other Drugs, which was released in theaters Wednesday, Nov. 24.
It will be the second time the Rachel Getting Married actress has starred in a movie with Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time).
Hathaway’s dramatic role has come a long way since her breakthrough as an actress with her film debut in family-friendly The Princess Diaries.
After her continued success in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Hathaway has resisted roles in which she portrays the crowned beauty—every young teenage girl’s dream—which she says has been a “brick wall at times” for her career.
Instead, she has chosen darker, more complex roles like that of Kym, a young woman who has been in and out of rehab and visits home for her sister’s wedding, in the drama Rachel Getting Married, in which she was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress.
In Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Hathaway was initially approached by Walt Disney Pictures to play the role of Alice; however, she was more interested in the role of the White Queen who, according to Hathaway in an interview with ScreenCrave, is similar to a “punk rock vegan pacifist.”
Like her other roles since Princess Diaries 2, Hathaway strives to go beyond her comfort zone in Love and Other Drugs and reveals to her audiences a more mature actress.
It will be the second time the Rachel Getting Married actress has starred in a movie with Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time).
Hathaway’s dramatic role has come a long way since her breakthrough as an actress with her film debut in family-friendly The Princess Diaries.
After her continued success in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Hathaway has resisted roles in which she portrays the crowned beauty—every young teenage girl’s dream—which she says has been a “brick wall at times” for her career.
Instead, she has chosen darker, more complex roles like that of Kym, a young woman who has been in and out of rehab and visits home for her sister’s wedding, in the drama Rachel Getting Married, in which she was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress.
In Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Hathaway was initially approached by Walt Disney Pictures to play the role of Alice; however, she was more interested in the role of the White Queen who, according to Hathaway in an interview with ScreenCrave, is similar to a “punk rock vegan pacifist.”
Like her other roles since Princess Diaries 2, Hathaway strives to go beyond her comfort zone in Love and Other Drugs and reveals to her audiences a more mature actress.
