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In \"Serenity,\" Hathaway plays the ex-wife of McConaughey, a fishing boat captain, who asks him to save her and their young son from her new, violent husband by taking the husband out to sea and throwing him to the sharks.
\"I don't really get offered things like this, to play a part like this,\" she said.
Hathaway added, \"There's a lot of anger going on right now, whether it's physical violence or emotional violence or violence we're directing towards each other ... this film doesn't try to solve it and it doesn't try to explain it, but it does explore it. That really it appealed to me. I want to understand this moment better; I don't know why we treat each other the way we do.\"
Truth lies beneath the surface. See Matthew @McConaughey and #AnneHathaway in the Official Trailer for SERENITY – in theaters January 25. #SecretsWillSurface pic.twitter.com/CqFdSYN6lD
— Serenity (@SerenityFilm) November 20, 2018
On \"GMA,\" Hathaway praised McConaughey for his true character and off-screen authenticity.
\"I hope you all appreciate this -- it's all real,\" she said.
\"It's not like he's doing a Matthew McConaughey voice or telling a Matthew McConaughey story,\" she continued. \"That's actually who he is, and to see someone be able to live his life with that much integrity as he does, as deep a family man as he is do his job with as much integrity as he [does], it's left a big impression on me because I hope to do that same.\"
Anne Hathaway is LIVE in Times Square talking about @SerenityFilm and working with @Matthew McConaughey! pic.twitter.com/7W88pVgpjV
— Good Morning America (@GMA) January 23, 2019
On Tuesday, Hathaway sat down with Ellen DeGeneres and opened up about a night out with McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, while filming on the island of Mauritius.
Hathaway recalled a hungover meeting with their director the next day, which is one of two reasons why she gave up drinking in October. She told DeGeneres she plans on steering clear of alcohol for the next 18 years.
Desperate times. Desperate measures. #AnneHathaway and Matthew @McConaughey star in SERENITY. In theaters January 25. #SecretsWillSurface pic.twitter.com/BrpgbyMaky
— Serenity (@SerenityFilm) January 14, 2019
\"I'm going to stop drinking while my son's living in my house just because I don't totally love the way I do it,\" she said. \"He's getting to an age where he really does need me all the time in the morning.\"
\"Serenity\" hits theaters Friday.
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