Back in 2007, Anne Hathaway was operating in a pretty narrow lane, much of it defined by the word \u201cPrincess.\u201d Sure, she\u2019d dipped into more serious stuff with\u00a0Brokeback Mountain, and had already starred in The Devil Wears Prada\u00a0by that point, but all of that could be understood as being of a piece\u2014one that did not\u00a0involve being cinematically depicted getting wasted and banging Seth Rogen, or having the visuals of a baby\u2019s head poking its way out of a vagina attached to her pristine image.<\/p>\n
That, at least, is per Rogen himself, who opened up (per Variety<\/a>) in a recent interview about Hathaway dropping out of Judd Apatow\u2019s 2007 comedy Knocked Up. Talking to Olivia Wilde (who also auditioned for the role) for A24, Rogen diplomatically confirmed a story Apatow told back at the time<\/a>, that Hathaway quit the movie in part because she didn\u2019t want to be attached to footage of an actual baby\u2019s head crowning during a real birth during the film\u2019s climactic moments. \u201cCrowning is a tough one,\u201d Rogen noted of Hathaway\u2019s unhappiness. \u201cShe didn\u2019t want the crowning of the baby to be visually representative. Even though it wasn\u2019t going to be hers\u2026 It\u2019s obviously not real. But she didn\u2019t even want\u2026she felt that it was not her brand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Rogen makes it pretty clear, though, that he thinks this one issue was used as a stand-in for Hathaway\u2019s general unhappiness with the part. \u201cPart of me also\u2026 We had started rehearsing the movie\u2026 Maybe she was just like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if this is for me.\u2019 I don\u2019t know. I will take what she said at face value, which was the crowning. She had a sense, and she knew it was not for her.\u201d Which Rogen doesn\u2019t try to argue against, noting that \u201cShe has been right about a lot more things than I have over the years. So I think she was probably right.\u201d (He was also quick to praise Katherine Heigl, who took on the abandoned part, saying, \u201cAnd then Heigl was great. Katie Heigl was great.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 2007, Anne Hathaway was operating in a pretty narrow lane, much of it defined by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-740512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}