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Starting with playing a princess on screen, Anne Hathaway went on to give several commendable performances on the silver screen. Over the years, she has bagged an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and has become one of the best actresses in Hollywood. However, despite having years of experience, some roles can present unexpected challenges for actors, and for Hathaway, it was playing Lexi Donohoe, a woman with bipolar disorder inModern Love.
One of the sequences in the show became even more tricky due to the relentless disturbances caused by nearby train noise. As a solution, the makers took an odd approach to finish up the filming.
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Anne Hathaway’s on Filming the Intense Scene inModern Love
Anne Hathawaystarred as a bipolar woman dealing with her career and relationships, inModern Love, who hesitates to open up about her condition to others. However, she finally comes to terms with her condition and opens up about her bipolar disorder.
Talking about the scene during an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, she shared that the scene was full of“tricky twists and turns”where Lexi found herself opening up about her situation to someone for the first time.
The actress has shared that everyone could come across in such a situation.“We all walk around sometimes feeling like we have an elephant on our chest, but we’re not alone,”The Princess Diariesstar said, as perGlamour.
She said that she hoped that it would be helpful for anyone who is going through something similar and open up about the same to people around them. While filming such an intensely emotional scene was a challenge in itself for the actress, it only became more critical due to the location it was being filmed on.
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Anne Hathaway Followed an Odd Approach to Film the Scene Amid Train Noise
Further talking about the scene inModern Love, Anne Hathaway shared that it became even more challenging as they were subway train noise coming through the shot every two minutes. She shared that no one“noticed that we were shooting at the base of a subway station.”
An odd approach was taken to film the scene successfully. The Oscar winner shared that they had to freeze in whatever state they were in and hold their emotion while waiting for the train to pass and continue with the scene exactly where they left it.
“And we had to do that until the scene was done,”she said. Hathaway shared that although she did not find it very pleasing, as an experienced actress, she wanted to give her best for that particular scene. And she was very proud of it as she said,“I think it’s very good work, oddly.”
Modern Loveis available on Prime Video.
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Laxmi Rajput
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Laxmi Rajput is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, with over 3,300 articles published covering film, TV, and pop culture. With a degree in Broadcast Journalism and over three years of experience in content writing, she pivoted to entertainment journalism because let’s be honest, superheroes, sitcoms, and Netflix binges are way more fun. Laxmi frequently covers Marvel, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and popular TV shows, offering both fan-first enthusiasm and thoughtful analysis. Her work often dives into Marvel theories, revisits the genius of The Big Bang Theory, or unpacks the Netflix phenomenon of Stranger Things.
