Anne Hathaway's Hollywood celebrity best friend is revealed... and it's NOT a female
This time the Oscar-winning actress is discussing playing a pop star in the vein of Taylor Swift in her new movie Mother Mary, which was unchartered territory for the Hollywood veteran.
The brunette shared with the fashion bible that she was not good at singing at first, but she pushed herself.
'I had to submit to being a beginner,' shared the 42-year-old New York native.
'The humility of that—showing up every day knowing you're going to suck. And it has to be okay. You're not 'bad.' You're just a beginner.
'Getting to that mindset—I had to shed some things that were hard to shed. It was welcome. But it was hard, the way transformational experiences can be hard.'
Also in the interview, it is revealed who her celebrity best friend is, and it's not a woman.
What made it extra challenging was that she did not have all the music finalized before she went in front of the camera.
'It was so confusing. I had to learn…. Because if I'd had the music a year before we ever turned a camera on, I would have tattooed every note of it on my soul, and there would have been a whole process, very specific.
'And that was not available to me. In the end. I am very grateful I could not take control.'
The star worked with hit-making music producer Jack Antonoff as well as pop icon Charli XCX.
'I finally learned how to breathe,' said Hathaway. 'My body was so locked up—I literally couldn't take a deep breath.
'I'd been trying to open that space for years and I thought it was physically impossible. All my breath, it was stuck.'
Hathaway also spent two years trying to learn how to dance for the role.
As far as her celebrity best friend, it's Bradley Cooper. They became pals in NYC in 2019.
The Oscar-winner talked to Vogue about what makes Anne special.
'You see how she treats everyone—and it's everyone—she's so kind,' said Cooper. 'We started hanging out as parents, having dance parties with children in my kitchen, and I fell in love with both of them.' Them is Anne and her husband Adam Shulman.
Bradley said their union is 'an emblem for that kind of commitment,' in that they 'enrich' each other.
The actor then tells the writer: 'You've met Anne: She's very present and grounded, I'll put it that way. And kind. She's viciously intelligent.'
When not working, Anne is a regular person she insists, as she loves to stay home with her family.
She loves 'hanging out' with her kids - she has sons Jonathan, nine, and Jack, five, with her husband.
'I'd been trying to open that space for years and I thought it was physically impossible. All my breath, it was stuck.' Hathaway also spent two years trying to learn how to dance for the role
'Uno games, baking when there's time, teaching the kids to dribble a basketball in the apartment without upsetting the neighbors….' she said.
'I am so, so grateful [her] husband is a great cook and an early riser,' she told writer Maya Singer.
Anne looked glamorous in a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz with help from Fashion Editor: Tabitha Simmons, hair by Orlando Pita and makeup by Gucci Westman.
Vogue's August 2025 issue is available on newsstands nationwide on July 15.
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