Anne Hathaway sent an apology to a journalist after a cringeworthy 2012 interview they did together resurfaced online. Norwegian entertainment journalist Kjersti Flaa posted a video from the “Les Miserables” press junket in which Hathaway was curt in some of her answers and shot down Flaa’s pitch to sing one of the questions and answers with her. Hathaway’s co-stars, Hugh Jackman and Eddie Redmayne, agreed to Flaa’s singing request, but Hathaway said: “Well, I won’t be doing that, but you’re more than welcome to sing.”
It appears Hathaway caught wind of the resurfaced interview, as Flaa posted an updated video a few days later and revealed the Oscar winner had reached out to her through her representative to offer an apology for the cringeworthy chat. Variety confirmed with Hathaway’s rep that the actor officially responded to Flaa.
“Yesterday I did receive an email. It was from Anne Hathaway’s publicist, and he forwarded a message to me from Anne Hathaway. I have to say, I was pretty shocked,” Flaa said. “I had not expected her to reach out to me at all. I thought she was never gonna even see that video, but she did. And she did something pretty amazing.”
“She sent me a long email explaining to me what she was going through right then when she did this interview, and she apologized for being… giving me an awful interview, basically. It was so touching to me,” Flaa continued. “Just talking about it makes me almost teary eyed because I was just so grateful that she did that.”
Flaa did not want to reveal the full email to her viewers but said that Hathaway sent a “very personal note” and also invited Flaa to interview her the next time she has a major film release in 2025.
“I’m really looking forward to that, Anne,” Flaa said.
Flaa made headlines over the summer when she resurfaced an interview with Blake Lively from 2016. The journalist called the viral clip “the most uncomfortable interview situation I have ever experienced.” Flaa resurfaced the interview amid Lively’s controversial press tour for “It Ends With Us.”
From Variety US