Anne Hathaway has apologized to journalist Kjersti Flaa for being "dismissive" during a 2012 interview.
In a video titled This might be the worst interview idea ever, Kjersti discussed the time she interviewed Anne following the release of the musical Les Misérables.
The Norwegian reporter came up with an unconventional way to get to know the cast while honoring the movie's genre.
Highlights
- Anne Hathaway apologized to Kjersti Flaa for being "dismissive" in a 2012 interview to promote Les Misérables.
- Kjersti Flaa asked the cast members of Les Misérables to sing back their answers during the interview, which Anne did not agree to do.
- Anne recently sent Kjersti a "very personal" email explaining her behavior during the interview.
"I was going to ask you to do the first question in singing. Can I sing it to you? And you can sing back the answer?" she said.
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"Well, I won't be doing that. But you're more than welcome to sing," the 41-year-old actress replied after laughing at the request.
"She hated me. Let's face it, she really hated me," Kjersti said in a video posted Sunday (October 6) on her YouTube channel. "And she didn't like that idea at all either. That was pretty obvious."
"So Anne Hathaway was not very excited to be singing to me, and that interview just went completely downhill after that," the Los Angeles-based journalist described.
"She was just being, like, so dismissive of me."
In 2012, the Oscar winner sat down for an interview with Kjersti to promote the musical film Les Misérables
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She continued: "Maybe it was too much to ask her to sing back. But she could have been nice for the rest of the interview. I was just sitting there trying to make it a little more fun for everyone, and she wasn't having it, and then she was annoyed with me for the rest of the time."
After Anne refused to sing during the interview, Kjersti asked her if she believed that "love was more passionate back then" and if she remembered her first crush. The Interstellar actress simply responded "No" to both questions.
The Norwegian journalist asked Anne and other cast members to "sing back their answers" in honor of the film's musical genre
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In her video, the reporter recalled that other cast members, such as Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, and Amanda Seyfried, played along with the idea during their individual interviews.
According to Kjersti, a representative from the studio that made Les Misérables threatened to "blacklist" her if she didn't take the video down when she posted it in 2012.
"He was like, 'You know, if you, if people are going to see that, you might be blacklisted.' And I was like, 'Okay.' Basically, because she wasn't very nice."
"She hated me. Let's face it, she really hated me. "And she didn't like that idea at all either," Kjersti said in a recent video
Image credits: Kjersti Flaa
Image credits: Kjersti Flaa
Kjersti went on to say that she interviewed the Oscar winner on subsequent occasions, and she was "very sweet."
In a follow-up video posted on Wednesday (October 9), the journalist revealed that she received an email from Anne in response to her recent comments.
"Yesterday, I did receive an email. It was from Anne Hathaway's publicist, and he forwarded a message to me from Anne Hathaway.
"I have to say, I was pretty shocked. I had not expected her to reach out to me at all. I thought she was never gonna even see that video. But she did. And she did something pretty amazing."
Anne allegedly apologized for giving her "an awful interview."
After sharing the interview, Kjersti said she received a "long email" from Anne, who apologized for giving her "an awful interview"
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Kjersti said she received "a long email explaining to me what she was going through right then when she did this interview."
"It was so touching to me. Just talking about it makes me almost teary-eyed 'cause I was just so grateful that she did that. And it was a very personal note."
Kjersti decided not to share exactly what Anne said in the email.
Moreover, she said the Princess Diaries star invited her for another interview when Flowervale Street, a sci-fi film also starring Ewan McGregor, comes out in May 2025.
Anne is expected to reprise her role as Mia Thermopolis, the Princess of Genovia, in The Princess Diaries 3, though Disney has yet to make an official announcement.
"Maybe it was too much to ask her to sing back. But she could have been nice for the rest of the interview"
Image credits: Kjersti Flaa
Anne has reportedly invited Kjersti for another interview for her upcoming film, Flowervale Street, set to be released in May 2025
Image credits: Kjersti Flaa
Kjersti recently made headlines for calling out Blake Lively over a negative interview that made her "want to quit" her job in 2016.
During a press tour to promote Woody Allen's Cafe Society, the journalist congratulated the then-pregnant Blake on her baby bump.
"Congratulations on your little bump!" the Gossip Girl alum responded, despite Kjersti not being pregnant.
People were divided over Anne Hathaway's "dismissive" behavior during the 2012 interview
