july-2011

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INTERVIEW BY CELEBRITEXT
Anne Hathaway
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THE HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS ON HER ROMANTIC TRAVELS IN EUROPE
“A NICE LITTLE VACATION SHOULD
involve a lot of walks through the woods or on
the beach, or just a lot of time to sit and chill
– and it should have a lot of possibilities for
romance, of course.
“My best vacation was last summer, when
I travelled through Europe by myself and met
up with friends in different cities, and just took
pictures and wrote in my journal, and saw
great pieces of art and architecture.
“I was at this Miró exhibition in Madrid and
it was beautiful. Miró once said how happy he
was to have a studio in which he could do so
many different types of work. He said: ‘I come
and I look at it like it’s my garden’. I thought,
you know, that is very much the approach to
my career. Certainly, I have a lot more success
with some genres than others, but how
wonderful so far that I am so young and I’m
able to have diversity in my career. That’s so
wonderful. I’m very grateful.
“If I wasn’t an actor
I would be in Europe right
now travelling around, just
being a little dare-devil”
“I’ve been to Paris. You can’t beat Paris.
But I was very, very lazy and didn’t make it
to the top of the Eiffel Tower. I’ve been to the
Louvre and so forth. I really liked just walking
around through neighbourhoods and getting
lost and trying to figure out how to get back
to my hotel. I thought Bastille Day was 4 July
[it’s actually 14 July]. So I kept saying ‘Happy
Bastille Day!’. No wonder people looked at me
like I was crazy in Paris. I went out to dinner a
lot and one of my favourite places was Café de
Flore. I know that’s very American of me, but
they have the best hot chocolate in the world.
“While filming Ella Enchanted, I lived in
Dublin, or Ballsbridge really, and we also shot
in Bray in County Wicklow. I had such a great
time. I loved living there, I loved the people,
and surprisingly enough the weather as well.
We shot outdoors for six weeks and it didn’t
rain once.
“I did it around the same time as my
friends were doing their junior [university]
year abroad, so in my way it felt like my year
of international travels. If I wasn’t an actor I
would be in Europe right now travelling around,
bumming rides off people and just being a little
dare-devil romantic person.”
ANNE HATHAWAY STARS IN ONE DAY, OUT 26 AUGUST.
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