The Oscar winner discusses her latest acting portrayal of real-life woman Rebekah Neumann. Hathaway also opens up about how her approach with acting has changed since starting out in Hollywood during her teenage years.
The Oscar-winning actress has captured our hearts & minds throughout her celebrated Hollywood career, going as far back as her Princess of Genovia days in the timelessly beloved The Princess Diaries Disney films. Since then, Anne Hathaway has memorably sung, explored, and schemed up on the big screen, taking us moviegoers along for the ride. Now, Hathaway is bringing her acting chops to the small screen as real-life woman Rebekah Neumann on the new Apple TV+ miniseries WeCrashed, a role that has allowed Hathaway to develop her latest character within this episodic format in ways that her average two-hour film performance simply cannot. For WeCrashed, Hathaway plays the wife of former WeWork CEO & co-founder Adam Neumann (played by fellow Oscar winner Jared Leto), who made major headlines in recent years for the unexpected rise, followed by the much-publicized fall in his role creating the popular community work and office space company. Even with all of the press that surrounded this story, Hathaway’s initial knowledge of Rebekah, Adam, and WeWork was non-existent. “Nothing. Nothing, I never heard of WeWork,” Hathaway tells me. “So when I got the pilot, the first thing I did was google them and I was just amazed that I missed the whole thing.” WeCrashed navigates through the early creation and the dramatic demise of one of the most valuable startup companies in recent years, while engrossingly centered around the love story between Adam and Rebekah, guiding the human element of this elaborate business tale. After embodying Rebekah for these eight WeCrashed episodes, a woman who would ultimately become the chief brand and impact officer at WeWork for a short while, I asked Hathaway how she would best describe the real-life woman that she portrayed on-screen. “Maybe I should use Rebecca’s own words to describe her,” Hathaway says.
