Anne Hathaway is currently promoting her upcoming romance The Idea of ​​You, which centers on a 40-year-old single mother who falls in love

with the 24-year-old lead singer of the hottest boy band in the world. In addition to playing the lead role, the actress is also a producer, so she was deeply involved in the making of the film.

With this genre, choosing a co-star with the right chemistry is very important.

So the actress also “revealed” one of her own experiences during her early days of auditioning for romantic works in the 2000s.

She said: “Back in the 2000s, it was considered normal to ask an actor to date other actors to test their chemistry. At that time, I was told something like:

‘Today there are 10 guys coming here and you will be alone with each one. How do you feel?’. Personally, I thought: ‘What’s wrong with me?’, because I wasn’t very excited. I thought it was rude”.

She also added: “I was too young to object to them, so I just pretended that I was excited and went along with the arrangements. But to be honest, the process was not some kind of power play. No one was trying to be mean or hurt me. It was just a different time and we have different ways now”.

Speaking more about The Idea of ​​You, Hathaway said that instead of kissing a bunch of people, each casting partner was asked to pick a song they thought their character would love, and then the two of them would dance and improvise a little bit. “We’d sit next to each other like we’d just had dinner or gone for a walk or something, and then we’d play music and dance together,” she said.

In The Idea of ​​You, actor Nicholas Galitzine landed the role after choosing an Alabama Shakes song to dance to with Hathaway. She described him as “so perfect” as soon as he walked into the room. “We were both so comfortable,” the actress said. “I heard Brittany Howard, the lead singer of the band, and I started smiling. Maybe because he saw me smiling, he just relaxed, and we started dancing. No one was acting or doing anything that was out of character. Then I looked over and Michael Showalter, the executive producer, was smiling, and I knew we had found the right person.”

The Idea of ​​You premiered to rave reviews at the SXSW Film Festival last month and is set to be released on Amazon Prime Video on May 2.

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Source: USA Today