So it turns out we’ve been calling Anne Hathaway by the wrong name for her entire career.
Apparently, the star has never been a fan of her first name, and she used a recent TV interview to clear the air. During a virtual visit on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” the Academy Award-winning actress revealed that she would like people to start referring to her as Annie.
“Call me Annie. Everybody, everybody, call me Annie. Please,” she said, as reported by CNN. Hathaway then went on to explain how she came to be known by a name she doesn’t like.
“When I was 14 years old, I did a commercial, and I had to get my SAG (Screen Actors Guild) card and they asked me, ‘Well, what do you want your name to be?’” she explained (via ET). “And I was like, ‘Well, it should be my name. My name’s Anne Hathaway.’ So that seemed like the right choice, but it never occurred to me that for the rest of my life, people will call me Anne.”
The “Les Misérables” actress also disclosed that the name Anne carries some unpleasant ties to her upbringing.
“The only person who ever calls me Anne is my mother,” she said. “And she only does it when she’s really mad at me. Like, really mad. And so every time I step out in public and someone calls my name I think they’re going to yell at me,” Hathaway joked. “Call me anything but Anne” (via USA Today).
In 2020, Hathaway appeared in Robert Zemeckis’ feature adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel, “The Witches,” and on Jan. 14, the actress’s new R-rated pandemic-era romantic comedy “Locked Down” made its debut on HBO Max.