Anne Hathawaywon anOscar for playing Fantine in the 2012 big screen adaptation ofLes Misérables. But her path to Academy Award winner wasn’t without sacrifice.
To portray the young orphan, Hathaway lost 25 pounds, andtellsPEOPLE’s editor-in-chief Jess Cagle in the latest episode ofThe Jess Cagle Interviewthat she “wasn’t in a good place” during that time.
“I’d lost an unhealthy amount of weight in two weeks,” Hathaway, 36, reveals in PEOPLE’s latest cover story. “I didn’t know anything about nutrition. I taxed my body, and my brain bore the brunt of it for a while. I just felt very anxious and very lost at that time.”
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The actress, now starring in thedramatic thrillerSerenity, recognized that herbody needed to change.
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“That weight loss was not a long-term good thing for my health, and it took a really long time to come back from it,” she says. “And I was still really sick because of it.”
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The toll herLes Misérablesrole took on her physically, combined with recent changes in her personal life, kept Hathaway from enjoying her success.
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“I had just turned 30. I had just gotten married,” themom of onerecalls. “Even the most positive thing can be upheavals to your identity. So to just have this moment and not really know who I was — and the moment when you just feel like you’re on display — it wasn’t a comfortable feeling. And I didn’t do what I hoped that I would if I ever found myself in that moment.”
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Ultimately, Hathaway was able to move forward. “Life went on beyond it,” she says. “I feel much emptier now. It would have been nice if had happened then, but I’ll still take it.”
Serenityis out now.
source: people.com
