Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film

[Emmaloucbway]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film#1

Posted: 10/17/11 at 10:21pm

Here's the link:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Cameron-Mackintosh-Confirms-Anne-Hathaway-for-LES-MISRABLES-Film-20111017

Any thoughts? I have mixed feelings about this...

[Nettik]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #2

Posted: 10/17/11 at 10:30pm

Has it been announced what role she'll be playing?

EDIT: Whoops, skimmed over the part where it said she'll be Fantine.

I can't really picture her in that role. Updated On: 10/17/11 at 10:30 PM

[henryt]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #2

Posted: 10/17/11 at 10:49pm

^ Agreed. I see her as more of an Eponine (although she's probably a little too old).

[beautywickedlover]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #3

Posted: 10/17/11 at 11:19pm

I've been a fan of Hathaway's for a long time and I am looking forward to seeing what she will bring to this role. I know that she has the pipes for the part and she CAN act.
Updated On: 10/17/11 at 11:19 PM

[Owen22]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #4

Posted: 10/17/11 at 11:46pm

If you've read the book, Hathaway is probably a little too old to play Fantine! the character's age has usually been doubled by the actresses who have played her over the years.

[sueb1863]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #5

Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:29am

Not really thrilled about that choice. Amy Adams would have been much better, but I'm not sure she was even in the running. I hope she didn't get the part just because she's Hugh Jackman's buddy and he wanted her for it.

Every time I see her I can't get past the huge dark penciled eyebrows and thick red painted lips. They're going to have to tone her look way down if she's going to be believable as a penniless, dying prostitute.

[CarlosAlberto]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #6

Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:49am

They're going to have to tone her look way down if she's going to be believable as a penniless, dying prostitute.

Of course they are. She's playing a role. In a film. She will be made up and dressed to look like a penniless, dying prostitute. She's an actress. You do know that, don't you?

[best12bars]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #7

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:15am

LOL

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[LizzieCurry]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #8

Posted: 10/18/11 at 8:16am

I <3 Carlos.

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[madbrian]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #9

Posted: 10/18/11 at 8:39am

Has anyone seen Rachel Getting Married and still think Hathaway can't play Fantine?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[chewy5000]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #10

Posted: 10/18/11 at 9:10am

Thanks but no thanks.

[Gaveston2]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #11

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:44am

madbrian is right: "Rachel Getting Married" should remove any doubt about Hathaway's ability to play Fantine. Or anything else she wants to play.

[AC126748]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #12

Posted: 10/18/11 at 10:52am

I'm thrilled by this choice. She'll be terrific. She has an amazing voice--anyone who's seen her on stage in TWELFTH NIGHT or CARNIVAL knows that. And she's a phenomenal actress, probably a better one than the role needs.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Wilmingtom]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #13

Posted: 10/18/11 at 11:40am

Ditto AC. Terrific casting!

[henrikegerman]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #14

Posted: 10/18/11 at 12:56pm

"Every time I see her I can't get past the huge dark penciled eyebrows and thick red painted lips. They're going to have to tone her look way down if she's going to be believable as a penniless, dying prostitute."

I think what you mean is "believable as Fantine."

If I had a friend auditioning for the role of a "penniless, dying prostitute," without further description, the first thing I'd hand him or her would be a dark pencil and red paint.

[darquegk]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #15

Posted: 10/18/11 at 1:00pm

Of course she's not immediately a Fantine type, because she's a glamourous actress and model, not a penniless, dying prostitute.

If they really wanted a penniless, dying prostitute in the role, they would have cast Lindsay Lohan.

[madbrian]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #16

Posted: 10/18/11 at 2:07pm

Getting back to the novel, Fantine was a beauty before hard times. Wouldn't be surprised to see a flashback during I Dream A Dream:

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[fingerlakessinger]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #17

Posted: 10/18/11 at 2:12pm

My urge to see this movie just sky rocketed even more if that was even possible.
Seriously, she is a brilliant actress and a superb singer. I think she is going to do absolute wonders for this role.

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[p.s.]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #18

Posted: 10/18/11 at 2:16pm

Fantine was a beauty before hard times. Wouldn't be surprised to see a flashback during I Dream A Dream

I was just about to post that: A dream sequence during her song.


p.s. Now we get to speculate about who should play her lover.

[Gothampc]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #19

Posted: 10/18/11 at 2:33pm

"They're going to have to tone her look way down if she's going to be believable as a penniless, dying prostitute."

No way. This is Hollywood. If anything, they will glam her up. People in musicals aren't ugly when they die. And they'll make it so that the only way we know she's dying is that she'll give a little cough before falling back on her pillow. That way mothers don't have to explain to their children that Fantine just shuffled off her mortail coil. At the end of the musical, they can say "Oh look Dakota, there's Fantine singing again. She didn't die, she just went away to a sanatorium."

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[blaxx]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #20

Posted: 10/18/11 at 2:47pm

She's at such a strange disadvantage. The song is now popular because of Susan Boyle and modern audiences associate it to her.

Comparisons will be inevitable and I can see reviews ignoring the fact that dozens of performers had played the role before "Hathaway's rendition of the song I Dreamed a Dream is not bad, but she's no Susan Boyle..." Bah.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[themysteriousgrowl]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #21

Posted: 10/18/11 at 2:53pm

I don't think any reviewer worth his or her salt would have that thought, let alone put it on paper, let alone let an editor see it, let alone let the whole entire world know that he or she ever thought it in the first place.

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[SonofRobbieJ]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #22

Posted: 10/18/11 at 3:06pm

"Hathaway's rendition of the song I Dreamed a Dream is not bad, but she's no Susan Boyle..."

No one is going to say that, because Hathaway is a better singer than Susan Boyle.

[SporkGoddess]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #23

Posted: 10/18/11 at 5:13pm

My difficulty is that I always see Anne Hathaway as Anne Hathaway no matter what role she's playing. I'm going to have the same problem with her as Catwoman.

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[broadwaybabytn]

Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film #24

Posted: 10/18/11 at 7:23pm

I'm really excited for this. Is that bad?