"I don't know that there's any secrets to it it's just a pulse, it's a vein that you follow. In my case, there was no way I could relate to what my character was going through, I have a very happy, successful life and I don't have any children I've had to give up or keep and so what I did was try to get inside the reality of her story as it exists in our world. I read a lot of articles and watched a lot of documentaries about sexual slavery. For me I came to the realization that I had been thinking about Fantine as someone who was living in the past but she's probably living in New York City and is probably less than a block away. This isn't an invention, this is me honoring that this pain lives in this world. — so said Anne Hathaway on her character and process from "Les Miserables." She's in two devastating scenes in the picture. One, where she sings "I Dreamed A Dream," a performance so amazing, she's likely going to win an Academy Award from it and another where her beautiful locks are cut off.
"I did cut my hair and I am only sorry when I get to spend time with Amanda Seyfried whose hair is so beautiful," Hathaway quipped. "I offered [director] Tom Hooper the option of cutting my hair. It was always something I knew I'd be willing to do for a character. After I got the script and they were keeping the hair cutting in and I read the book and it's such a devastating scene in the book and in the back of my mind if watching her hair get cut was a painful experience then watching her teeth get pulled would be really hard. It was great to be able to authentically translate a physical transformation."
"Les Miserables" has already topped the Christmas box-office and has raked im 17.5 million so far. All this week, we'll be dropping little bon mots and quotes from the "Les Miserables" press day.
Fortunately she didn't opt for authenticity with the teeth pulling thing.
"(…) and another where her beautiful locks are cut off." is this a writing sample for Elle Magazine?