Anne Hathaway is Hollywood?s New ?it-girl?
walk away (from her assistant’s life). She is in Paris, and has a changed perspective on life.” The studio wound up using a version of this idea in the film, and ultimately cast Hathaway in the part.
More comedies are coming down the pike starring Hathaway, including Bride Wars, a female version of the burgeoning bromance genre, about best friends (Hathaway and Kate Hudson) who inadvertently turn into battling bridezillas; The Fiance, about a woman who want to dump her fiancé much to her parents’ chagrin; and a sports comedy in the vien of Broadcast News featuring Hathaway as an aspiring and definitively spunky sportscaster.
As one studio executive noted, Hathaway is practically the only twenty something woman whom a studio would comfortably stake a romantic comedy on – and she’s still about half the price of a more established
