The 2000s.
Anne Hathaway said she had to make out with 10 guys in one day for a chemistry audition for a movie in the 2000s. Hathaway said she thought it was “gross” but didn’t want to be seen as “difficult” by complaining.
“I was told, ‘We have 10 guys coming today and you’re cast. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ because I wasn’t excited.”
Hathaway continued, without naming the movie: “I thought it sounded gross. And I was so young and terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘difficult,’ so I just pretended I was excited and got on with it.”
She added: “It wasn’t a power play, no one was trying to be awful or hurt me. It was just a very different time and now we know better.”