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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Both Scarlett Johansson and Anne Hathaway are being courted for the lead role in the upcoming ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ remake.

The NY Post reports: Brian Grazer is remaking “The Bride of Frankenstein,” but this time, the female monster is going to be a babe. “She’ll be young. They’re looking for a person with great power and sex appeal,” a Hollywood insider told us.

“Someone along the lines of Scarlett Johansson or Anne Hathaway.” In the 1935 original, the frizzy-haired bride was played by bug-eyed English actress Elsa Lanchester.

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“Off his rocker”: Johnny Depp concocts another memorably trippy character as the Mad Hatter. Besides his Carrot Top mop, Depp undergoes a transformation with the addition of enlarged eyes tinted yellow. “He is so much fun and so nutty, I can’t imagine anyone else doing it,” says producer Richard Zanuck. The actor also employs an accent that Zanuck can only describe as indescribable.

UPDATE: I found pictures of Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen of Hearts, and Anne Hathaway as Alice The White Queen (oops)!

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Anne Hathaway showed some old-style glamour in a little black dress at the 63rd Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday night.

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Brokeback Mountain co-stars Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to reunite onscreen in a movie about a sex drug salesman.
The actors, who played an unhappy husband and wife in the Oscar-winning 2005 movie, are being lined up to play lovers once more in the big screen adaptation of author Jamie Reidy’s non-fiction book Hard Sell: Confessions of a Viagra Salesman.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Love and Other Drugs will see Gyllenhaal portray the lead character, a sales representative for drug giant Pfizer who embarks on a romance with Parkinson’s sufferer Hathaway.

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New Line has recruited a veritable who’s who of Hollywood to star in the Garry Marshall-directed rom-com Valentine’s Day.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Marshall will reteam with his erstwhile Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts, along with an ensemble that includes Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher and Shirley MacLaine.

The film will follow five overlapping stories and all take place on Hallmark’s Cupid’s holiday in Los Angeles.

Some of the storylines already penciled in for the big-screen bonanza: Roberts plays an Army officer on leave from Iraq who strikes up a conversation with Cooper, whose boyfriend is a closeted football player; Kutcher owns a flower shop and plans on proposing to girlfriend Alba, only to discover he’s in love with best pal Garner; Hathaway is an agent’s assistant who’s dating the mail boy; and Biel tries her hand as an unlucky-in-love publicist.

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