Sexy Anne Hathaway for Parade Magazine
People always ask me, ‘So, how do you feel being Hollywood’s good girl?’” Anne Hathaway says. “Am I? That’s an easy way to sum me up. But frankly, at the end of the day, I say, ‘There are worse things to be.’”
After being a fantasy role model for little girls everywhere in The Princess Diaries, Hathaway, 25, wanted to be known for more than being nice. “It’s not that I’m all that bad,” she says with a laugh. “I just think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons—wearing a tiara.”
Now she’s going for wacky comedy in the new movie Get Smart, out this month, packing a gun and unleashing kicks and punches as Agent 99 opposite Steve Carell’s spy Maxwell Smart. But fighting in high heels wasn’t her biggest challenge. “Just keeping myself from cracking up with Steve nearly killed me,” she says.
Despite taking on decidedly adult roles in Havoc and Brokeback Mountain, Hathaway has retained her good-girl image. Her charming portrayal of a beleaguered assistant in The Devil Wears Prada won her more fans and new confidence. “I used to worry too much, take myself too seriously,” she says. “I had to learn that perfectionism slows everything down. All it does is keep you motivated by fear.”
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