{"id":409507,"date":"2026-04-25T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/409507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:26:10","slug":"is-anne-hathaway-on-her-way-to-egot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/409507\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anne Hathaway On Her Way to EGOT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In our multi-hyphenated world, we have grown accustomed to pop stars crossing over to the silver screen in search of new challenges\u2014and maybe even that elusive diva status. Lady Gaga did it. Whitney Houston did it. And so did David Bowie. The switch from actor to musician, however, comes with its own set of challenges; though the music eventually finds a niche audience and more often than not cult-status, mainstream success, and the awards that often accompany, can remain just out of reach.<\/p>\n

Except maybe if you are Anne Hathaway. The actress, inarguably one of the greatest of her generation, is currently starring as Mother Mary in the David Lowery film of the same name, as a pop star on the eve of her comeback with everything to lose. And because you cannot be a pop star without some bops, Lowery recruited thee pop music architects of our time, Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX (who is coincidentally on her own pop star-to-actor pivot), to write Mother Mary\u2019s music for the film. The seven songs, released as an album titled Mother Mary: Greatest Hits, and released on streaming platforms (and molten gold-and-blood colored vinyl on the A24 website, of course); are dark club jams with spiritual-themed lyrics that toe the line between the sacred and the profane. It is impossible to differentiate these songs with songs by a \u201creal artist,\u201d because, well, they were written by real artists. (FKA Twigs, another musician who recently pivoted to actor, also contributed \u201cMy Mouth is Lonely for You,\u201d one of the songs that didn\u2019t make it into her latest album Eusexua, for the film.)<\/p>\n

And despite the fact that she told Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/a> a few months ago, Hathaway decided at a young age that she\u2019d never grow up to be a pop star, she sings on every song on the record (where she\u2019s also credited as the artist), and she sounds good!<\/p>\n

\u201cI just remember having that conversation with myself and being like, \u2018Okay, well, I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll ever be a dancer, and your singing\u2019s fine, but I don\u2019t know that you\u2019re ever going to be a star vocalist.\u2019 So, I ruled out \u2018pop star\u2019 pretty early,\u201d she shared. But the thing that makes Hathaway Hathaway is her commitment to the role. So she trained and trained and trained and met with Antonoff to find her \u201cpop star vibe,\u201d and in the process she had to unlearn the type A, locked-in mentality that has driven her to the top of her craft.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d never considered vibe-based art before, you know?,\u201d she told The New York Times<\/a> this week. \u201cFor me, movie making comes from a very, very different place and acting comes from very different place. To my horror and dismay, I realized I had no idea how to sing into a microphone because all of my training was onstage, where there\u2019s so much projection involved. Pop music is the opposite. It\u2019s effortless power, which is not really my thing. I\u2019m, like, all about effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

But another thing that surely helped her pull off her pop star turn is her own personal influences; during a recent press junket to promote the movie, Hathaway revealed her \u201cMount Rushmore\u201d of pop divas as follows: \u201cTori Amos, Fiona Apple, Bj\u00f6rk, and Beyonc\u00e9.\u201d That means an intrinsic understanding and appreciation of theatricality, vulnerability, experimentation, a desire for perfection. How could she not nail her Mother Mary performances? (The Tori influence can be particularly felt during \u201cHoly Spirit 2.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The question is, will The Recording Academy recognize Hathaway\u2019s hard work and reward her with a Grammy nomination, after she was shockingly snubbed for her performance of \u201cI Dreamed a Dream\u201d as Fantine in 2012\u2019s Les Mis\u00e9rables? The actress won an Academy Award for that very same role, and has an Emmy thanks to a cameo appearance in an episode of The Simpsons, a Grammy now would almost certainly guarantee she reaches the coveted EGOT status (it\u2019s not difficult to imagine her taking a break from films to do theater for a while and earning a Tony award for it sometime in the future, after all she began her career in theater.) In the meantime, you\u2019ve got some tracks to vibe with.<\/p>\n

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