As Anne Hathaway and countless other celebrity woman have spoken out about, female actors often experience unfair age-related career hurdles that their male counterparts rarely, if ever, encounter. However, Hathaway has also admitted to experiencing both sides of the coin. “I can’t complain about it because I benefited from it,” she said during her 2015 Glamour UK cover story. “When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get them … Now, I’m in my early thirties and I’m like, ‘Why did that 24-year-old get that part?’ I was that 24-year-old once, I can’t be upset about it, it’s the way things are.”
Unfortunately, Hathaway was temporarily dealt a double blow to her career. For a couple of years after “Hathahate” took off, she had trouble finding work in Hollywood. “A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” the star revealed to Vanity Fair. She also credited renowned director Christopher Nolan for helping her career get back on track with her “Interstellar” role. “I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect.” And while she noted that her career did stall a little, it would have been worse without Nolan’s co-sign.
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