Shape Your Life Celebrity

It’s not every Monday that you’re tasked with walking the

wing of a Boeing 747, but Anne Hathaway is up for anything.

(Our photo shoot took place at the famed 747 Wing House,

made from the jet’s components, in Malibu.) After 18 years

of Hollywood stardom and the sometimes-bumpy ride that

comes with the gig, she not only pulls it o‡ convincingly in a

power suit and pool slides but looks as nonchalant as Bond,

Jane Bond. Which is fi tting, because she proves she’s got a

knack for acting British in her hot new buddy-scam comedy,

The Hustle, a winning remake of the 1988 classic Dirty

Rotten Scoundrels. Anne plays upper-crust Brit con artist

Josephine, a millennial version of the signature character

played by Michael Caine. “For the role, I put on an accent

that I think sounds more like Stewie from Family Guy than

Julie Andrews, but that’s intentional,” she laughs. “Josephine

is an a‡ ected person, so I wanted her to

have a slightly fake accent.”

The fi lm takes place in a glamorous

fi ctional French resort town (shot in

Majorca in real life), where Anne, 36,

inhabits personas and glam looks that

range from boss to Riviera Barbie to a

sexpot German doctor. “We had such a

good time creating all these distinctive

characters in the cons,” she says, reliving

the fun and sounding downright tickled at

how she often gets to play dress-up for a

living.

The script for The Hustle came

across her desk around the time her son,

“I AM PART OF A U.N. TEAM

WORKING TO MAKE PAID

PARENTAL LEAVE A GLOBAL

REALITY – SOMETHING THAT

MATTERS TO ME GREATLY.”

Jonathan (now 3)—with her husband, the producer Adam

Shulman—was born. His arrival has had a happy grounding

e‡ ect on her schedule (more on that later), but it hasn’t

slowed her impulse to pay her good fortune forward. She

champions girls and women as a longtime U.N. Women

Global Goodwill Ambassador and is a founding member

in the Time’s Up movement. She openly strives to keep

her plastic use low. And she collaborates with pals like

fellow Time’s Up trailblazer Jessica Chastain on projects

that speak to her passions. The two are doing research

for a potential movie set in the 1960s, when men had a

certain level of legal control over their wives. “Fifty years

from now, people are going to look back and feel there

were monstrous things about our time too,” she says of

the overdue reckoning of Time’s Up. “This is just my way

of saying, Yes, there have absolutely been changes. But by

no means is the work done.”

Pushing her own boundaries—developing, writing, and

producing fi lms—also propels her these days. “I love what

I do,” says Anne, who goes by Annie right from hello. “And

to stretch out a bit and see if I can occupy this community

in a way that’s larger than I currently do is really cool.” This

is a woman who feels good in her own skin. She shares

how she arrived at this point.

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