Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett on Filming Steamy Scenes for ‘Verity’ | N18g

I've had much more physically challenging roles. I have to be honest. I had just come from doing Mother Mary, which was like this multi-year, dance-intensive, performance-oriented character that... was really a true physical challenge and then I also in the middle of doing that made End of Oak Street which was like running and screaming and like the hot Atlanta summer so finding out that my job was going to be putting on a nightgown and getting into bed and staring off into space I was fine with it. It was it seemed like the right the absolute right choice for the time. Thinking about my mother or grandmother in erotic thrillers at the time of filming. Why? But Hitchcock and De Palma, for sure. I mean, there's obviously all of their films are that, are that genre. But it's, I don't know, inspiring in a way. And also, I guess, because it's something that has been in my family, it's like a sense of understanding and bravery that I, like, I guess I'm inspired by my mother and grandmother that they can do or did that. And so, so can I. I mean, have they actually communicated a little bit better? A lot of this could have been avoided, maybe all of it. All It's, yeah, it's unfortunate that this does reflect the times in that way, that people are so certain of their reality or don't want to, just can't trust the other side of the conversation. right. Thank It's, yeah. And that neat, sorry, I didn't mean to talk about it. No, that's it. It reflects the time in that way. I think it reflects the time, because I feel like right now, you I don't know what it is about right now, it's certainly not new, but it's heightened right now. very We seem to be very quick to turn each other into villains, much. and we seem to use individual examples to maybe define somebody's entire character. And I think there's a danger to that. I'm not... I'm so seasoned a producer yet that I had any say in getting it in. No, I'm excited. I'm really excited. And please, let's not overpraise the pampered actress. There's a lot of pregnant women out there at home and in the workplace who, you know, didn't get a manicure this morning. So, like, let's, so I'm very happy to do my job. I have so much support. And I'm just. It's been a real thrill over the course of this year to watch audiences come to the movie theater. You know, that was something that all of us were able to take for granted in the beginning of our careers. It's something that we've all, it's a change that we're weathering, you know, the rise of streaming, the rise of everything being so accessible to people at home. And so this year in particular felt like. The first time for me, post-pandemic, post the strikes, where the movies were so exciting and people came out in droves to see them again and again and again and again and have rediscovered their love of just kind of being in community, their love, you know, the entire AMC ad, God, guys, she was right. Nicole really called it beautifully, so it's just been exciting to have so many offerings in a year that feels so important to the motion picture industry, and not to sound too, you know, grandiose about it, but to American culture. Movies are a huge part of American culture and have been for the last hundred years, and so it's been really exciting to have a presence in a year like this. But I'm with the onion, saying that we're becoming overly reliant. on it in our economy. Don't, don't worry, I'm going to rest pretty soon.