Christian Bale is widely known for his crazy transformations in movie roles. He has often gone to extreme lengths to get into character and give the best performance possible to his movies. However, he is not alone when it comes to such insane levels of dedication to filmmaking. His co-star Anne Hathaway also went through an excruciating diet to get into her character for his The Dark Knight Rises movie.
Hathaway gave a phenomenal performance in that film and cemented her name as one of the leading actresses in Hollywood. However, in her old interview, she later calls the Catwoman costume she wore in the movie a “Psychological Terrorist.”
Anne Hathaway Reveals Her Horrible Experience Donning The Catwoman Suit
Anne Hathaway is one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood who has successfully delivered show-stopping performances in numerous blockbuster projects, including Christopher Nolan’s directorial The Dark Knight Rises. In the movie, Hathaway played the role of Selina Kyle / Catwoman next to Christian Bale, who portrayed Batman.
The Intern movie actress hit the gym tirelessly to achieve the insane physical transformation for her part as she told Allure magazine in 2012 that she went into the gym for ten months to match the physical look of her character.
Talking about how she prepared herself physically and mentally for her iconic Catwoman role in the titular movie and about her costume, she said,
“It was a psychological terrorist, The suit, thoughts of my suit, changing my life so I would fit into that suit… It dominated my year. I didn’t understand how you could be thin and strong. I went into the gym for ten months and didn’t come out.”
Anne Hathaway recalls meeting the film director Christopher Nolan for her Catwoman audition as she told BBC Radio 1,
“That was the initial meet with Chris. I came in, and I had this lovely Vivian Westwood kind of beautiful but mad tailoring top with stripes going everywhere, and I wore these flat kind of Jokery-looking shoes. And I was just trying to give Chris these crazy little smiles.”
She added,
“And then about, an hour into it, he goes, ‘I’m sure that I don’t have to tell you this, but it’s Catwoman.’ I was like, ‘Shifting into a different gear right now.’”
It is such dedication, focus, and hard work which makes ordinary stars great. Hathaway reached a new level with her mind-blowing performance in the Batman movie. Since then, the actress has gone on to do many iconic roles, and her work in the film has given her much physical and mental strength to do challenging parts. It is true that complex roles forge great actors, and the same is the case with Hathaway.
Anne Hathaway Shares The Best Part About The Dark Knight Rises Flick
In a candid interview, Anne Hathaway revealed the best part about the titular film in which she played the role of Catwoman. She told the outlet,
“The best? I’m in Batman. That was the best. The worst, it doesn’t matter; I’m in ‘Batman.’ Like; this is not the sort of job where you nitpick or find things to complain about. I was as happy as I’ve been on anything on this one; it was ‘Count your lucky stars every single day.”
Alongside Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises movie had an all-star studded ensemble cast that includes: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Morgan Freeman. The film was released in 2012 and became one of the highest-grossing films earning $1 billion at the global box office.
Source: Allure Magazine
