Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong have become good friends over the last few years, but they usually don’t get the chance to talk about craft.
And if there’s anything the “Succession” actor is known for, it’s dedication to craft.
Strong, who won an Emmy for playing Kendall Roy on the HBO series, and Hathaway, an Oscar winner, co-star in the upcoming movie “Armageddon Time,” which filmed in New Jersey last year and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The friends, who first worked together in the 2019 thriller “Serenity,” got into what makes them tick as actors in Variety’s “Actors on Actors.”
They paid each other some very nice compliments, but also unearthed defining moments, like a memory so strong that Hathaway had been saving it up and revisiting it for more than 20 years (see video below).
She finally got to unleash that piece of herself in the Apple TV+ series “WeCrashed,” about the rise and fall of co-working space company WeWork, which premiered in March. Hathaway stars as Rebekah Neumann, the intense wife of Adam Neumann, the intense former WeWork CEO and serial entrepreneur played by Jared Leto.
When Strong praised her performance in the series, highlighting one scene in particular, she told him it had a history — an emotional anecdote she stored in her actor toolkit since she was in high school.
Hathaway, 39, who grew up in Millburn, made her screen debut as Meghan Green in the Fox series “Get Real.” The show ran for one season in 1999 and 2000 and co-starred the actor’s fellow Jerseyan Jesse Eisenberg and Eric Christan Olsen as her onscreen brothers.
Hathaway was in her senior year of school when she filmed the show in Los Angeles, away from her Jersey home. She told Strong she was 16 at time and feeling like a fish out of water, so much so that she would routinely cry.
