At the Sundance Film Festival, Hollywood star Anne Hathaway shared a disturbing query she was asked by a reporter when she was just beginning her acting career.In her new movie Eileen, a darkly humorous thriller that had its Sundance premiere on Saturday, Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie play a psychotherapist and a jail secretary who are inexplicably pulled together.
However, Anne Hathaway admitted to the audience during a post-screening Q&A that the movie had an emotional resonance for her, according to ‘Variety’.
Are you a good girl or a bad girl? was one of the very first questions I ever received when I started acting and had to do press. stated Anne Hathaway.
“I was 16. And when I was 16 years old, I wanted to answer with this movie.
After watching the critically acclaimed 2016 drama “Lady MacBeth,” directed by William Oldroyd and starring Florence Pugh as a lady stuck in a horrible marriage to a much older man, Hathaway stated she made the decision to sign up for Eileen.
Anne Hathaway remarked, “I felt it was an outstanding job.
I felt like Will was a filmmaker who could be trusted to tackle tough stories, especially concerning females, after seeing a study of female complexity that impacted me really, really hard.
Even though Hathaway is excellent as an enigmatic doctor who develops a homoerotic bond with a fellow jail employee, McKenzie’s portrayal of a young woman who is largely disregarded and is obliged to care for her drunken father might be the movie’s most unexpected turn. She has a Massachusetts accent on screen, which contributes to this. Despite having certain geographical challenges to overcome, McKenzie excels at an accent that has plagued many seasoned performers.
McKenzie said, “I love my accent.
Although I’m a very, very proud New Zealander, I find it to be really upsetting.
McKenzie claimed that she speaks in the voice of her role the entire time she is filming, whether it be on “Eileen” or “Last Night at Soho,” where she had an amazing English accent.
When I use my Kiwi accent at the conclusion of a job and the crew asks what is this, it’s extremely enjoyable, she added.
Ottessa Moshfegh, the author of the same-named novel, and Luke Goebel (‘Causeway’) adapted Eileen for the big screen. Moshfegh, a literary superstar for her books “Lapvona” and “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” says she aspires to one day be a film director.
Oldroyd claims that he thought “Eileen” could smoothly transition from the page to the screen in part due to its distinctive tone.
He declared, “I enjoy… dark, oddly humorous, crazy stories.”
