American actress Anne Hathaway says that “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan saved her career more than a decade ago, when she was at the center of the Hatahite scandal, one of the most bizarre controversies in recent Hollywood history, Business Insider reports.

In an extended interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Hathaway stated that Nolan gave her the most difficult role of her career when he cast her as Catwoman in the film. The Dark Knight returns since 2012, but at the same time he has kept his career afloat thanks to the role Interstellara sci-fi feature film that came out two years later, in which he starred alongside Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain.

“I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who didn’t care about it (the Hatahite controversy) and gave me one of the most beautiful roles in one of the best films I’ve ever been in. “, she told Vanity Fair reporters about her role in Interstellar.

“I don’t know if he knew at the time that he was supporting me, but it had an effect. And my career was not undermined as it could have been if he had not supported me,” the 41-year-old actress added.

What was the “Hathahat” controversy.

In the early 2010s, Hathaway found herself at the center of one of the most outlandish controversies in recent American film history that demonstrated the power of social media.

An online campaign against her began in 2011 after she hosted the Academy Awards alongside actor James Franco, another rising star of American cinema at the time. The result was widely seen as a disaster, mainly because of the difference between the two: Hathaway was very cheerful and energetic, while Franco tried to appear “cool”.

After they became the target of criticism online, Franco did not help the actress, saying in an interview with David Letterman on his show “The Late Show”, “Anne Hathaway is so energetic that I think the Tasmanian Devil would look sitting smoked next to Anne Hathaway.”

Then she was criticized by comic book fans batman, who thought she wasn’t attractive enough to play Catwoman. But the peak of the Hathahite campaign came in 2013 after Hathaway starred in the film Desperatewhich later earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

But during the film awards ceremony, she gave almost every speech after being nominated for an award Desperate criticized on the Internet for being fake, emotional, or too self-centered.

Nolan with the cast of “The Dark Knight Rises” (PHOTO: Peter Brooker / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia Images)

Anne Hathaway says internet hate has cost her roles

“Humility is a difficult thing to go through. The key is not to let it shut you down,” she tells Vanity Fair.

She also revealed that she missed out on several roles during that time, despite becoming an Oscar-winning actress. She also talked about it in an interview with The Huffington Post a decade ago, saying that “I think people need a break from me.”

“A lot of people didn’t want to cast me because they were so worried about how toxic my persona had become online,” she says now in a new interview with Vanity Fair.

Although she didn’t talk about the films she was turned down, there’s no doubt that Nolan’s faith in her paid off: Intestellar was a big box office success, grossing $733 million on a $165 million production budget.

Christopher Nolan also won his first Oscar.

As for Nolan, he’ll be winning his first Oscar a decade after the film hit theaters Interstellar thanks to his feature film Oppenheimerthe big winner at this year’s Academy Awards.

In addition to the best director award, Nolan also won the best film award, which is presented to the producers of a feature film. In addition to his triumph at the Oscars, where he received a total of 7 awards, Oppenheimer was, just like Interstellara big box office hit.

With over $952 million in revenue, Oppenheimertook 3rd place in the international ranking of the highest-grossing films of 2023.

Nolan’s fee, over-the-top bonuses and a bonus after the Oscar success enriched the American-British director with an amount almost equal to Oppenheimer’s entire production budget.