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Anne Hathaway On Her 'Les Miz' Buzz Cut: 'I Looked Like My Gay Brother’



She took the brave step of shaving off her hair to play a diseased waif in the movie adaptation of the musical, Les Misérables.

But Anne Hathaway wasn’t too shocked when she looked in the mirror after losing her shoulder length hair because she saw a familiar face – her gay brother!

Speaking at a New York screening of the movie on Friday, Hathaway said: “When I eventually looked in the mirror I just thought I looked like my gay brother.”


It’s not the first time the actress has spoken about her gay older brother Michael. Two years ago she told British GQ that she and her family left the Catholic Church because of its stance on homosexuality after he came out.

Hathaway said: “The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out. Why should I support an organization that has a limited view of my beloved brother?”


As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Hathaway was so dedicated to playing the role of Fantine in Les Misérables that she shed 25 pounds from her already thin frame.

She lost the final 15 pounds by eating just two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day.

Hathaway said: “I had to be obsessive about it – the idea was to look near death.”


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wauwy 26th-Nov-2012 12:08 am (UTC)
I keep tryin' to get my mom to go Episcopalian because she hates the Catholic Church for a myriad of reasons and no longer identifies as Catholic, but she says it just all feels weird to her and she can't do it. So instead she exists in faith-crisis misery.

idgi at all. but my mom was planning to be a nun before she realized she liked diq too much to go through with it, so I guess it all runs pretty deep for her.

/csb but we needed a break from the homophobia wank for some religious wank.
lissalynn 26th-Nov-2012 12:58 am (UTC)
I'm honestly so glad I was raised in the Episcopal church, because I honestly feel it was such a positive/open experience that it's what made me feel totally comfortable to really explore my views once I was an adult (which led to me realizing I'm an atheist/Humanist) even though I was baptized and confirmed. It was no thing that we had gay ministers, women ministers, ministers had families, etc. and so much of the sermons/Sunday school teachings were about Jesus's love and him wanting us all to be good people. There was so little of the hell/guilt/judgement stuff.

I have good feels for the Episcopal church still.

wauwy 26th-Nov-2012 07:17 am (UTC)
Liberal Episcopalianism and liberal Methodistism fucking rock. I often use them as counterexamples for the "all Christianity is by nature oppressive" argument.

My mom's toooooo entrenched in the Catholic ways to go anywhere else, though. Like, she was a welfare lawyer for 25 years for the poorest of the poor, the for the mentally ill and extremely disabled and for homeless families, and whenever there nowhere else for her clients to turn, Catholic Charities stepped up to the plate again and again when no one else would, just to buy her a little more time. The laity, especially nuns, often put their money where their mouth is and it's hard for her to let that go, even though she loathes the Church as an institution.

I told her she should check out the increasing number of "heretical" churches that reject the pope and the hierarchy entirely and have gone back to the early Church days where the Church WAS the laity and naught else. She is considering it.
my_moloko 26th-Nov-2012 01:22 am (UTC)
What about joining a high Anglican church? It's pretty close to Catholicism, I think people do the sign of the cross and stuff. Even at the Anglican church I go to I notice some people do stuff that I would figure comes from a Catholic upbringing.
wauwy 26th-Nov-2012 06:59 am (UTC)
She can't deal with how the Anglican church was founded. She says it's the worst genesis of a protestant sect ever, and I can't say I blame her for that one.

Plus she hates England, lol
marmar627 26th-Nov-2012 11:45 am (UTC)
Catholic guilt, baby! We couldn't live with ourselves if we outright converted.
wauwy 26th-Nov-2012 10:23 pm (UTC)
completely accurate. Even I have vestiges of it even though I was ~officially raised as no religion.
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