The actress won an Oscar for her portrayal of the doomed Fantine.
review of the Universal film, adding how she “gamely gets down and dirty and has her hair clipped off onscreen.”
Hathaway fought hard for the role, which her own mother had played years earlier in the Broadway production’s first national tour. “My mom and I were talking about the idea that Fantine has lit a match, and she’s just watching it burn down. And she needs to blow it out and let in the darkness,” Hathaway explained at‘s Actress Roundtable in December 2012.
THR’s Todd McCarthy praised Anne Hathaway in his review but deemed the film, with its melodramatic and intense performances, “heavily, if soaringly, monotonous.” This story first appeared in a December stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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