5:56 pm - 11/25/2012
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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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.”
Source
I have good feels for the Episcopal church still.
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.