{"id":597834,"date":"2026-08-19T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597834\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:56:08","slug":"anne-hathaway-pushed-hard-to-get-julie-andrews-in-princess-diaries-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597834\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway ‘Pushed Hard’ to Get Julie Andrews in Princess Diaries 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnne Hathaway<\/a> is revealing that she \u201cdid push really hard\u201d trying to get Julie Andrews<\/a> to reprise her role as Queen Clarisse Renaldi in the upcoming third Princess Diaries installment.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight<\/a> after receiving her Disney Legends Honor at the D23 Expo, the Oscar winner reacted to Andrews saying she doesn\u2019t \u201cthink I should be a part of\u201d Princess Diaries 3.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFirst of all, I just want to say if she has a change of heart, we\u2019re down,\u201d Hathaway said. \u201cJust anything, really. But we also want to be respectful. Like, for goodness sakes, if anybody has contributed to the world of entertainment and to our collective joy, it\u2019s her. Whatever she wants, we completely understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, The Odyssey actress added, \u201cWe did push really hard to see if she would want to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring an interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> earlier this month, Andrews explained why she doesn\u2019t see herself stepping into Queen Clarisse Renaldi\u2019s shoes again. \u201cI think the absolute truth is that I think I\u2019m really past all that now,\u201d The Sound of Music star confessed. \u201cI\u2019m not completely retired, but it\u2019s a different kind of work that I do these days \u2014 [writing] books, and I do a lot of recording of podcasts and voiceovers. But truly, I don\u2019t think I should be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile details surrounding Princess Diaries 3 are being kept under wraps, the movie is set to be a continuation of the film series, which centers on Mia Thermopolis (Hathaway), who finds out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. At the end of the second installment, The Princess Diaries<\/a> 2: Royal Engagement, Mia is crowned the queen of Genovia single after Parliament abolishes the law requiring that a queen be married first. However, she also finally gets together with Nicholas Devereaux (Chris Pine) after calling off her wedding to Andrew Jacoby (Callum Blue).<\/p>\n

\n\tHathaway also told ET that she just wants the third installment \u201cto be fun\u201d for those who have been fans since the original film released in 2001.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want the women who were six when the first one came out \u2014 a lot of whom are now mothers themselves, maybe even with six-year-olds \u2014 I want them to feel like they\u2019re bringing their children to something that mattered to them, a core memory for them, something that was a part of their heart and their lives,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that means doing it justice. And that means taking the time that it takes to really build it right. That\u2019s a lot of pressure, but I feel like this is a great team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdele Lim has been tapped<\/a>\u00a0to direct the feature, with Flora Greeson writing the script<\/a>. Aadrita Mukerji had written an earlier draft of the screenplay before the production team pivoted in a different direction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway is revealing that she \u201cdid push really hard\u201d trying to get Julie Andrews to reprise her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7245,321,93,61,60,62061,235965],"class_list":["post-597834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-julie-andrews","tag-the-princess-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597834","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=597834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}