The film is due for launch in Could, and Anne performs Solène — a 40-year-old single mother who strikes up a relationship with a 24-year-old British boybander known as Hayes Campbell, who’s performed by Nicholas Galitzine.
The story follows Solène and Hayes’s unconventional romance after an opportunity assembly at Coachella, with Solène struggling to adapt to the publicity that comes with courting some of the well-known and in-demand folks on the planet.
The Thought of You relies on Robinne Lee’s 2017 novel of the identical identify, and Lee beforehand informed Vogue that she was largely impressed by One Route, notably Harry Types, when she was writing the e-book.
Consequently, many admitted to being confused by Anne’s involvement within the adaptation, with it being broadly recommended that the film is beneath her. Reacting to the trailer on X shortly after its launch, one particular person wrote: “The girl that did Les Mis is now doing a harry types fan fiction… a step down for Anne Hathaway.”
However whereas Harry was the preliminary muse behind The Thought of You, the e-book’s writer has all the time maintained that the general focus of the story is Solène “rediscovering herself” in her 40s.
And Anne alluded to this as she opened up about why she accepted the position on the film’s premiere at SXSW Movie Pageant on Saturday.
“I don’t wish to be pigeonholed and don’t wish to be positioned in a field of what sort of movies I’ve to be making due to my age, gender, and since I gained an Oscar,” she reportedly stated. “I wish to have enjoyable, dammit. It speaks to me.”
And this remark ended up hanging a chord with folks, who took to social media to reward the actor for her refreshing honesty.