(Left-right:) Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine on March 16; Harry Styles on Feb. 11.Photo:Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images; JMEnternational/Getty Images
Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images; JMEnternational/Getty Images
Anne Hathawayis setting the record straight when it comes to her new rom-com,The Idea of You.
Based on Robinne Lee’s 2017novel of the same nameabout a divorced mom having a whirlwind romance with a younger pop star, the film adaptation has had fansdrawing comparisonstoHarry Styles.
When asked aboutThe Idea of You’s connection with Styles — and his relationship withOlivia Wilde— Hathaway, 41, reportedly toldExtra, “No, just no.”
The movie is about “what it takes to recover from a broken heart,” said the actress, who was interviewed alongside her costar and on-screen love interest,Nicholas Galitzine.
The Oscar-winner added, “She’s raised a great kid, she’s built a business… She’s doing a lot of things right, and then when her husband does this awful thing to her, she has to wonder if she was ever really loved in the first place. So that’s a long time to live with that question.”
The Idea of Youwas “never supposed to be a book about Harry Styles,” Lee, 49, toldVoguein 2020. “It was supposed to be a story about a woman approaching 40 and reclaiming her sexuality and rediscovering herself, just at the point that society traditionally writes women off as desirable and viable and whole.”
But, the actor-author admitted, Hayes was imagined as a “Prince Harry-meets-Harry [Styles]” after she discovered that Styles “often dated older women.”
(Left-right:) Nicholas Galitzine in “The Idea of You”; Harry Styles in 2023.Alisha Wetherill/Prime; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Alisha Wetherill/Prime; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Galitzine then toldVarietyearlier this month that “it’s not a comparison that I’ve ever made,” despite fans online noticing further similarities between the character and Styles uponThe Idea of You’strailer release.
The fictional Hayes, the actor said, “is a very different character” from Styles. “And we want him to exist in his own world,” he explained.
Nicholas Galitzine and Anne Hathaway at the SXSW premiere of “The Idea of You” on March 15.Michael Buckner/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty
Michael Buckner/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty
Hathaway also toldExtramore about her character, who begins her romance with Hayes “thinking it’s just gonna be a bit of fun.” Then, she added, Solène “realizes it’s something more, and if she’s gonna actually participate in it, she’s gonna have to let some other things go.”
The actress-producer added that Galitzine has “such a good voice,” and performed his own vocals in both the audition and the movie. “Not only could he sing, he brought his own guitar,” Hathaway shared. “There was an audition song that we were like, ‘If you guys could prepare this.' He’s like, ‘I have a different song.’ He said it with that kind of cockiness.”
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The Idea of Youwill premiere May 2 on Prime Video.
source: people.com
