My Interview Project

In this project, I listened to an interview broadcasted on 21 December 2010. The interviewer is John Wilson and the interviewee is Anne Hathaway, Oscar-nominated actress. The interview focuses on her last film "Love and Other Drugs".

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Anne Hathaway, American actress, played in lots of films. Some of them are The Princess Diaries, Becoming Jane as Jane Austen, Alice in Wonderland. In 2008 she won the awards for her lead role in Rachel Getting Married and her last film is Love and Other Drugs. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway played together. In the film, Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal) selling Viagra and Maggie (Anne Hathaway) suffering from Parkinson’s disease have physical relationship and then the relation turns into love. During the interview John Wilson asks questions and Anne Hathaway answers them, explains her feelings.

At the beginning, Anne Hathaway talks about Maggie’s disease. She says that Maggie has no money no love no saving. She suffers from early onset Parkinson’s disease. She is worried about her future. She is reluctant to love someone. Then she tells her process playing a woman with Parkinson’s disease. She says that she talked a lot of women with Parkinson’s disease, read books and spoke neurologists about Parkinson’s disease. And she explains how she chooses roles. She says that she is looking good complex characters and just trying to go with the best actor, actress and best director are. She mentions Love and Other Drugs. She says that while she decided her role as Maggie she saw that Maggie was good complex character because she has Parkinson’s disease and she is alcoholic and she is trying to adjust having a disease. She is worried about her future. After that, she mentions her other films and roles. Then she says that she is satisfied with her roles. All of them are so good. She hasn’t regretted her any roles so far.

If I were the interviewer, I would like to ask her:

     Is there any real person with Parkinson’s disease in the film and if so, how did you feel?

     What do you think about playing with Jake Gyllenhaal?