Hollywood star Anne Hathaway in Berlin. She stars in the opening film, She Came to Me Photo: Joel C Ryan/AP
By Sebastian Bauer
The 40-year-old Hollywood actress stars in Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy She Came To Me, alongside Peter Dinklage and Marisa Tomei.
“I’m an actress, I can play anything. You can cast me for anything,” says a laughing Anne Hathaway (40) at the press conference for the Berlinale opening film “She Came To Me”. And then he adds with a smile: “Okay, almost everything.”
In the romantic comedy by director Rebecca Miller (60), she is allowed to pull out all the stops of comedy as a quirky psychologist who constantly cleans her apartment and is interested in life as a nun. That she can and wants to play “almost anything” is particularly evident in a scene in which she rips her clothes off while telling a story about making dumplings.
The film team is pleased that the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj will be present at the premiere in the Berlinale Palast. Director Miller speaks of a “great honor”. Anne Hathaway says: “I would like to thank the Berlinale for giving a hero of our time this opportunity.”
Incidentally, working with Rebecca Miller was a lifelong dream for Hathaway, who describes herself as a cinema addict. “I auditioned for her when I was a teenager. It didn’t work out then, but I knew I had to shoot with her at some point.”