WORKING GIRL FROM `PRINCESS' TO `PRADA,' ANNE HATHAWAY GROWS UP.Byline: - Bob Strauss She's not that princess anymore. Anybody who's seen Anne Hathaway's aggressive cowgirl in ``Brokeback Mountain'' knows that the actress' ``Princess Diary'' days are well behind her. And in summer's adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's scandalous novel ``The Devil Wears Prada'' (June 30), Hathaway is more like a modern-day serf serf, under feudalism, peasant laborer who can be generally characterized as hereditarily attached to the manor in a state of semibondage, performing the servile duties of the lord (see also manorial system). . She's Andrea, assistant to an appallingly demanding fashion magazine editor, played by Meryl Streep Noun 1. Meryl Streep - United States film actress (born in 1949) Streep . Though the novel was a thinly veiled strike at Vogue's Anna Wintour Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) is the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. , Hathaway says the movie is much more focused on a young woman's first foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my the working world. ``We're very respectful of what it means to have your first job and what it takes to be a businesswoman,'' Hathaway says on the phone from Ireland, where she's making a movie about the young Jane Austen. ``It definitely deals with things lightly - because, let's face it, life's funny - while also at certain times being surprisingly realistic. It's about how much you should change yourself for quick success. It goes much deeper than just boss-from-hell comedy.'' As to the changes she's been making to her own Disney princess For the Game Boy Advance game, see . Disney Princess is a Walt Disney Company franchise, based on fictional characters who have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up. image, Hathaway, 23, finds any furor over her new, adult movies amusing. ``A lot of people want to know about the `sharp left turn' I've taken,'' she laughs. ``It has nothing to do with trying to put anything behind me. I didn't realize how associated with `Princess Diaries' I had become. But I'm just trying to represent myself more honestly as a person and an artist. You know, I was an actress before I was the Princess of Genovia, and rather than just trying to exploit a market, I should really grow as an artist.'' And a mature one. Asked if she harbors any jealousy over how Streep's been praising her other summer co-star, ``A Prairie Home Companion's'' Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and television commercials. , lately, Hathaway chuckled again. ``I know Lindsay, so I asked, and Meryl was exceedingly impressed with her,'' the actress reports. ``But no, there's no kind of seething seethe intr.v. seethed, seeth·ing, seethes 1. To churn and foam as if boiling. 2. a. To be in a state of turmoil or ferment: competition at all. Sorry to disappoint; I'm not one for catfights.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) `The Devil Wears Prada' May 19 |
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