Mackintosh Confirms Hathaway for Les Miz Film

[Emmaloucbway]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

LOL

[LizzieCurry]

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

I <3 Carlos.

[madbrian]

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

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

[chewy5000]

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

Thanks but no thanks.

[Gaveston2]

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]

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.

[Wilmingtom]

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

Ditto AC. Terrific casting!

[henrikegerman]

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]

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]

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

[fingerlakessinger]

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.

[p.s.]

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]

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."

[blaxx]

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.

[themysteriousgrowl]

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.

[SonofRobbieJ]

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]

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.

[broadwaybabytn]

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

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