PHOTOGRAPH ELIZABETH WEINBERG/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX/EYEVINE
The chronic need to please that caused Anne Hathaway to wear a brightly cheerful – occasionally branded insincere – mask in an e ort to endear herself to others is a lasting legacy of her formative years in the spotlight. ‘I have a history of being shamed and humiliated, for a lot of di erent reasons,’ she says.
Her facade – coupled with the widely held media perception that she was trying too hard to ingratiate herself with the public – had the opposite e ect, creating a tribe of online ‘Hathahaters’. She recalls of that di.cult time: ‘I didn’t think I was good enough, so I pretended to be someone I wasn’t.’