{"id":461310,"date":"2026-05-22T06:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461310\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:24:13","slug":"anne-hathaway-nearly-quit-mother-mary-after-seeing-her-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461310\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway Nearly Quit ‘Mother Mary’ After Seeing Her Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough Anne Hathaway<\/a> is not stranger to a musical role, she had trouble finding her inner pop star for A24\u2019s Mother Mary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar winner admitted that she told her husband she wanted to quit after seeing footage of herself singing and dancing to original songs by Jack Antonoff, Charli XCX and FKA twigs in the David Lowery-written\/directed A24 film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is really bad,\u201d she recalled thinking to Elle<\/a> after seeing footage of herself. \u201cI don\u2019t know that I can ask people to come to see this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHathaway ultimately decided to stick it out. \u201cI came to the conclusion that there would be no shame if I was fired, but there would be if I quit,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress ended up taking months of dance lessons for the movie, in addition to working on her vocals for a year during postproduction and returning to the studio with Antonoff to re-record most of her part. \u201cHe whipped his head at me goes, \u2018You have been working,’\u201d said Hathaway.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"L-R:<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMichaela Coel and Anne Hathaway in \u2018Mother Mary\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA24<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Mother Mary, which premiered last month in theaters, Hathaway plays the titular pop star, who confronts old wounds when she reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam (Michaela Coel) before staging her comeback performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tHathaway previously won her first Oscar in 2013 for Best Supporting Actress after playing Fantine in the movie musical adaptation of Les Mis\u00e9rables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Anne Hathaway is not stranger to a musical role, she had trouble finding her inner pop star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7245,321,93,61,60,94673],"class_list":["post-461310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mother-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}