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Anne Hathaway trained hard for ‘Dark Knight Rises’ role

Dec. 4, 2012 - 14:51 By Korea Herald
A scene from "Rachel Getting Married" is pictured in this undated publicity photo released to UPI. Anne Hathaway, pictured, was nominated for best actress in a leading role for the 81st Academy Awards, announced in Beverly Hills, California on January 22, 2009. The Oscars will be presented February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. (UPI)

Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway admits she underwent a “complete transformation” to play the villainous vixen Selina Kyle in the big-screen blockbuster “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Starring Christian Bale as Batman and Tom Hardy as his nemesis Bane, the movie is the third and final installment in director Christopher Nolan‘s Dark Knight trilogy. Returning for the final movie are “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” cast veterans Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman.

Best known for her roles in “Rachel Getting Married,” “Becoming Jane,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Princess Diaries,” and a likely Oscar contender for the upcoming musical “Les Miserables,” Hathaway said she worked hard to prepare physically to play her first action heroine, a character Warner Bros. describes as a “cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda.”

“When I got the part, Chris called me into his office and said: ’So, there‘s going to be a lot of fighting and when we did ’Inception,‘ [Joseph Gordon-Levitt] got in really good shape. Joe went to the gym for months, so that way when we did his fight sequences, he did all his own fighting.’ I really liked that,” Hathaway laughed during a recent press conference in Los Angeles.

“And I went, ‘Gotcha, I am reading between the lines here,’” recalled the 29-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. native. “And I just went to the gym and came out when we wrapped. And it was a complete transformation. I had never done anything like that because it wasn‘t just about looking a certain way. I had to learn how to fight and become strong enough to fight for many days at a time. And that was actually something I felt very lucky about. ... I don’t know what other actresses have gone through, I feel like sometimes there is a mandate that comes to you, an ideal of how you have to look and the way I was always treated on this movie was, ‘Learn how to do what you need to do and then however you look, that’s way the character looks.‘ And I just felt as a woman very protected in that way.”

So, how did she manage all that wearing sky-high heels?

“You just do. It’s part of being a woman. You just figure it out. ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ was really good training for that,” she quipped. “For that, I ran up and down Manhattan, for this, I ran up and down Gotham.”

“The Dark Knight Rises” is set for DVD and Blu-ray release Tuesday. (UPI)



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"다크나이트라이즈" 여주인공 앤 해서웨이, 그녀의 성공비결


할리우드 여배우 앤 해서웨이(Anne Hathaway)가 블록버스터 “다크나이트라이즈(The Dark Knight Rises)”에서 악당 셀리나 카일 역을 하기 위해 대변신을 해야했음을 인정했다.

크리스찬 베일(Christian Bale)이 배트맨으로 나온 “다크나이트라이즈”는 크리스토퍼 놀란(Christopher Nolan) 감독의 다크나이트 시리즈 3부작 중 마지막 영화였다.

“레이첼 결혼하다(Rachel Getting Married)”, “비커밍 제인(Becoming Jane),” “악마는 프라다를 입는다(The Devil Wears Prada),” “브로크백 마운틴(Brokeback Mountain)” 그리고 “프린세스 다이어리(The Princess Diaries)”에서 주연으로 등장했으며 곧 개봉을 앞둔 뮤지컬 “레 미제라블(Les Miserables)”에 출연하는 해서웨이는 그녀가 액션영화 여주인공으로 활약한 첫 영화인 “다크나이트라이즈”의 촬영을 준비하기 위해 신체 관리하는 데 상당한 공을 들였음을 고백했다. “다크나이트라이즈”는 워너브로스(Warner Bros.) 사의 영화이며 해서웨이는 숨겨진 임무를 맡은 교활한 도둑 역을 맡았다.

“제가 그 배역을 받았을 때, 크리스가 저를 사무실로 부르더군요. 그러고는 ‘액션장면이 굉장이 많을 거야. 내가 조셉 고든-레빗(Joseph Gordon-Levitt)과 영화 ‘인셉션(Inception)’을 찍었을 때 조셉은 몸매가 훌륭했지. 수 개월동안 체육관에 다녔어, 조셉은. 그래서 액션장면마다 본인이 직접 연기했지. 난 그 점이 굉장히 마음에 드렀어.’라고 말하더군요.”라고 해서웨이가 최근 LA에서 열린 기자회견에서 말하며 웃음을 터뜨렸다.

“그래서 저는 ‘좋았어, 무슨 말인지 알겠어.’ 라고 생각했죠.”라며 29세의 뉴욕 브룩클린 토박이인 그녀가 말했다. “그래서 그냥 체육관으로 바로 갔고 영화 촬영이 다 끝났을 때 체육관 가는 것도 그만뒀죠. 완전한 변신이었어요. 그런 걸 해본 적이 없었어요. 그냥 단지 어떻게 보여야 한다는 게 아니라 정말 싸우는 법, 매일매일 싸우는 법을 배워야 했거든요. 행운이었던 것 같아요. 다른 여배우들은 이런 과정을 어떻게 소화하는지 모르겠지만 좋은 기회인 것 같아요. 주어진 것을 어떻게 하는가를 배우는 거죠. 당신이 어떻게 보이느냐가 곧 그 캐릭터가 어떻게 보이는가죠.”

그녀가 치명적 높이의 하이힐은 어떻게 소화했을까?

“그냥 하는 거죠. 여자가 되는 과정이에요. 그냥 받아들여야 하죠. “악마는 프라다를 입는다(The Devil Wears Prada)”를 찍으며 그 부분에서 훈련을 많이 했죠. 맨하탄을 얼마나 뛰어다녔는지 몰라요.”

“다크나이트라이즈”는 블루레이(Blu-ray)와 DVD 출간을 앞두고 있다. (코리아헤럴드)