September 17 - 23, 2023
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Anne Hathaway OF GET REAL (1999-2000 SERIES) ON FOX Q: Didn’t Anne Hathaway have a weekly series role some time ago?
Colin Woodell in “The Continental: From the World of John Wick”
A: She did. The Oscar winner (for “Les Miserables”) got her big break in “Get Real,” a Fox series that aired during the 1999-2000 season. The seriocomic show about a dysfunctional family also was the first major credit for Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social Network”), who played Hathaway’s younger brother; Eric Christian Olsen, later of “NCIS: Los Angeles,” also portrayed one of the show’s three siblings.
Though the series lasted only that one season, it didn’t take long for Hathaway’s movie career to get going. “The Princess Diaries” was a big hit in 2001, and though its filming meant Hathaway had to miss her first semester of college, she said later that she didn’t mind. Director Garry Marshall had thought of Liv Tyler for the part, but his granddaughters weighed in and convinced him to opt for Hathaway instead, and the picture earned her an MTV Movie Award.
Hathaway has returned to TV on occasion, as a host of “Saturday Night Live” and the Oscars, and she also appeared in the streaming projects “Modern Love” and “WeCrashed” (serving as an executive producer of the latter as well). Additionally, her voice has been heard in episodes of “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy.”
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“The Continental: From the World of John Wick,” starring Mel Gibson (“Braveheart,” 1995) and Colin Woodell (“The Flight Attendant”), begins streaming Friday, Sept. 22, on Peacock.
Returns were mixed on her movies that followed immediately, including “Nicholas Nickleby” and “Ella Enchanted,” but she sampled another medium by putting her singing talents to work in a 2002 New York staging of “Carnival.” She eventually got back on the box-office track with the 2004 sequel “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” and moved from that into a variety of screen projects encompassing “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Devil Wears Prada.”