In this week’s New York magazine, contributing editor Amy Larocca talks to Anne Hathaway about playing Viola in Shakespeare in the Park’s “Twelfth Night,” the trappings of fame and her “tabloid-candy” break-up from Raffaello Follieri….

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On celebrity:
“There are enough reality-TV stars out there who clearly want attention and fame. I personally don’t think they know what they’re getting into, but it’s a very human instinct. I never wanted to be famous. I just wanted to act. So it’s very odd. Here I am doing something that’s a real actor thing to do and I’m being treated like a celebrity. I was going to take this year off from being a celebrity!”

On getting into the character of Viola:
“I was feeling like I could do more to get into my character…So I decided, What if I walked around New York trying to pass for a boy? What if I had to make people look twice to figure out what I was? I kind of got dressed up, and there were six photographers outside. I was walking my dog, and they know my dog, so all of the sudden I’m in a terribly unflattering outfit, I look like I’m auditioning for West Side Story, and it’s on the Internet! And it’s just like, I’m doing this for my job!”

On her break-up with Follieri:
“I don’t have the words to describe that yet…Hopefully at some point in my life I will have the words to describe what it was actually like, but at the moment, all I can say is that it was heavy, it was shocking, and I don’t completely understand it.”

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