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ANNE HATHAWAY (Selina Kyle) Q&A and Featurette
We have here a Question & Answer (Q&A) with Anne Hathaway and a clip that shows some of the challenging stunts that she has to do when playing Selina Kyle, the professional cat burglar, in The Dark Knight Rises. The storm arrives tomorrow on 28 November! Watch out for it in major video stores in Singapore!
"I've been working with the movement coach, to just kind of make sure
that each movement had a purpose and would project something." - Anne Hathaway
Just how great Anne is to have played the Selina Kyle in TDKR? Emma Thomas, the co-producer for The Dark Knight Rises, has praises for her as seen in the featurette. "I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been for her (Anne Hathaway). She was having to do the most amazing stuff, and having to do it backwards and in high heels."
Source: Warner Bros.
Q: Anne, can you talk about the training that you went through to play a character who is always fighting, and what was it like doing stunts and fighting scenes in that outfit and high heels?
- Anne: Yes. Well, when I got the part, Chris had called me into his office and said, ‘Okay, there’s going to be a lot of fighting. And when we did Inception, Joe [Gordon-Levitt] got in really good shape. Joe went to the gym for months so that way, when we did his fight sequence, he did all of his own fighting. I really liked that.’ And I went, ‘Gotcha.’ I am reading between the lines here. And I just went to the gym and came out when we wrapped. It was a complete transformation. I’d never done anything like that because it wasn’t just about looking a certain way. I had to learn to fight. I had to become strong enough to be able to fight for many days at a time.
And that was actually something that I felt very lucky about because I feel like in a situation like this - and I don’t know what other actresses have gone through - I feel like sometimes there’s a mandate that comes to you, an ideal of how you have to look. And the way I was treated on this movie was to learn how to do what you need to do. Then, however you look, that’s the way the character looks. And I just felt as a woman very protected in that way.
The second part of the question was how did I do it in heels? You just do. It’s part of being a woman. You just figure it out. The Devil Wears Prada was really good training for that, though. I kind of ran up and down Manhattan, so I just ran up and down Gotham.
Q: Since your character is never referred to as Catwoman, it seemed you were able to reform the character as your own, and I never found myself comparing you to previous actresses that have played the role. Did you feel that?
- Anne: Oh, thank you. That’s a relief. I would have played a footstool in this movie but it was pretty cool to get to play such a wonderful character. I loved that the focus was who she was as Selina and that there wasn’t a schism within her, that she didn’t change when she put on the suit. It was kind of her uniform which she had to wear for her job.
