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[1] Photo 1 [Get Real photoshoot]: Hi, I'm Anne Hathaway, and this is my life, and look, this is one of those moments where it feels like a lifetime ago and like it happened yesterday. Five minutes ago, I swear.
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[2] So, I am 16 years old in this. This was one of my first photo shoots ever, ever, ever. It was, if I remember correctly, an issue of TV Guide. They were doing the upcoming fall schedule, and I'd just been cast in my first-ever television series called Get Real⁽¹⁾.
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[3] I played a character called Megan Green, who was a rebellious valedictorian. I chose these jeans. I loved them. I bought them actually after the shoot because I loved them so much, and I wore them proudly.
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[4] I kept waiting for them to have their moment⁽²⁾, and they didn't. And so, the years went on, and I eventually thought, "Okay, it's time to part with them" and I gave them away.
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[5] And the next year, Chloe came up with those beautiful patchwork jeans, which I actually wore to The Idea of You premiere at South by Southwest⁽³⁾ as an homage to these very jeans. So, if you don't like both of them, I don't know what to say. They make me smile, and I love them.
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[6] Photo 2: [The Princess Diaries]: Hello, Princess! This is the dress Princess Mia wears when she decides that she is going to accept the throne. Why do we love a makeover montage?
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[7] I mean, why is the sky blue? Why are we largely carbon-derived? I have no idea, it's a mystery. These are questions that are bigger than me. I don't know. I don't know how to answer them, but god! I love them.
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[8] I think I love growth. I think we all love growth. And I think that the makeover montage is the ancestress of TikTok. So clearly, why ever we love it, we just really, really, really do.
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[9] Photo 3 [Ella Enchanted]: Oh my gosh, Ella of Frell jumping over a barrel. Sweet girl. So, this was one of the first days that we shot Ella Enchanted. Ella—oh, she was a rebellious teen. I'm realizing that I played a lot of rebellious teenagers, or I did at one point when I was one.
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[10] We filmed in Ireland. We were kind of going for, like, a medieval socially conscious hippie, and I think we succeeded really well, I loved this blue.
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[11] And it was the first time, my first experience, with hair extensions, which I did not love as much as the blue. Loved these boots, had them for years.
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[12] Photo 4 [Brokeback Mountain]: This is my character, Lureen Newsome, from Brokeback Mountain, directed by the master Ang Lee. This is one of the films that changed my life.
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[13] I'd been a likable actress, a cute actress, up to this point. This was the first time I think I'd ever been considered, like, a real actress, a dramatic actress.