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Appreciated her honesty about her Oscar win.

posted 8 years ago by giorgoscayman
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While Anne was promoting colossal in Toronto she said that she felt uncomfortable winning an Oscar since she hasn't yet recovered from playing Fantine! The character shaped her in a way that she couldn't be happy! And she had to be happy so she pretended to be (because of let's face it Hollywood standards) and everybody hated it her for that! She also mentioned that she was wearing a very expensive dress and necklace which cost so much money while she was winning an Oscar for portraying the pain of a woman who didn't have the money to feed her child. I know the haters will say she's ungrateful! But I loved what she said and I think that actors and especially actresses get a lot of criticism because of the media shaping them in a way they don't deserve in order for to have new topics! It's disgusting!

[–] giorgoscayman 8 years ago

She pretended she was happy since it's common sense that winning an Oscar leads to happiness! I didn't make that clear before

[–] thenmadewild 8 years ago

I agree and I think it would have been cool if she had said that when she won, but she probably hadn't worked out what she was feeling to a point that she could talk about it. Also people might have criticized her (though they did anyway...) What she said makes a lot of sense really. She was winning a massive award and getting lots of money for portraying suffering, and meanwhile people are still suffering. Her feeling bad about it shows she has empathy and isn't another empty-souled Hollywood hypocrite.

[–] giorgoscayman 8 years ago

Totally agree

[–] Filmhistorian (22) 6 years ago

Hmm. Meryl Streep's played a woman who committed suicide after sending her child to the gas chamber, played another who abandoned her child, and a third who lost her baby to a dingo and took the blame for it. Nominated for all three, (winning two while very pregnant), and she didn't allow herself to get upset over the dress she was wearing because another actress's was similar.

I don't hate Anne Hathaway, but she'd been in the industry continuously for other a decade and previously nominated in the primary acting category, so it's a separate but equal argument that the stress he experienced she placed upon herself.

Furthermore, Sally Field's Mary Todd Lincoln was the more complicated role and probably should have won, so Ms. Hathaway should feel, if anything, nothing but graditute that she was given the chance to take home Academy hardware.