ABC/Rick Rowell(LOS ANGELES) — Anne Hathaway, who admits beating out older Hollywood actresses when she was in her twenties, reveals in Glamour UK‘s October edition that she’s quickly getting a taste of her own medicine.
The Princess Diaries actress, now 32, is dealing with the reality that she’s the one losing out to younger actresses, and she’s OK with that.
“I can’t complain about it because I benefited from it,” she tells the magazine. “When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties and I would get them. And now I’m in my early thirties and I’m like, ‘Why did that 24-year-old get that part?’”
“I was that 24-year-old once, I can’t be upset about it, it’s the way things are,” adds Hathaway. “All I can do right now is think that thankfully you have built up perhaps a little bit of cachet and can tell stories that interest you and if people go to see them you’ll be allowed to make more.”
Anne also discusses her friendship with Taylor Swift, whom she calls a “force of nature.”
“She just seems to be following her heart,” notes Hathaway. “I met her — I hope it’s OK to say this — when she and Jake [Gyllenhaal] were together. She was 20 at the time, and we hung out one night. I was like, ‘You are a magnificent creature.’”
The full interview will be available October 7.
Hathaway plays the owner of an online fashion site who hires a senior intern played by Robert De Niro in The Intern, opening nationwide September 25.
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