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During a impermanent quality connected Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Anne Hathaway shared her thoughts connected hosting the 2011 Oscars with James Franco. See what she said astir it.
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Anne Hathaway isn't mincing words astir her Oscars hosting gig with James Franco.
The actress, 39, revealed what she truly thinks of their 2011 show arsenic emcees during the Oct. 24 occurrence of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. Hathaway played a crippled successful which she looked backmost astatine moments successful her vocation and shared her honorable opinion by responding with "We…" and past a one-word answer—as a motion to her TV bid WeCrashed. When it got to hosting the Oscars, she simply said we…"sucked."
This isn't the archetypal clip Hathaway has spoken astir that night. In 2019, the Devil Wears Prada alum said she initially turned down the hosting gig and that Franco convinced her to bash it.
"When each the particulate settled, I was conscionable like, 'You've got to beryllium kidding me,'" she told PeopleTV. "Your archetypal instinct is usually the close one, and each the reasons wherefore I turned it down came true."
And portion Hathaway acknowledged successful a 2012 interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter that the amusement was "perceived arsenic a monolithic failure," she noted astatine the clip that she didn't regret hosting the event.
"I went into it with a batch of spot and a batch of hope, and I had a blast doing it," the Princess Diaries star shared. "And I realized afterwards, I played to the house; it's a 3,500-seat theater, truthful I was conscionable shooting vigor to the backmost of it and it was similar a party! It was great! And I deliberation it looked somewhat manic and ‘hyper-cheerleadery' onscreen. But I person nary regrets astir doing it."
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As for Franco, helium talked astir the gig during a 2016 interrogation with New York Magazine, noting that Hathaway had turned him down but that helium had convinced her by saying, "'Let's conscionable bash it. It'll beryllium an adventure,' and past we got a batch of s--t for it." The actor, 44, added that he, "probably got much than she did, but she got a lot."
Franco—who past twelvemonth agreed with his chap defendants to settle a 2019 lawsuit successful which they were accused of intersexual exploitation arsenic good arsenic fraudulently moving Rabbit Bandini accumulation companies and a Studio 4 acting and movie school—also said helium and Hathaway didn't constitute the publication for the Oscars. Instead, helium said helium "put myself successful their hands" and that helium "never aspired to beryllium the Oscars host."
"I don't attraction really," Franco replied erstwhile asked if helium regretted hosting the Oscars. "I'm going to bash what they inquire maine to and bash it arsenic good arsenic I can, but I don't request this to beryllium the champion Oscars ever. I'm not getting thing retired of that. In the best-case scenario, adjacent if I killed it, it's not going to assistance my career, due to the fact that that's not what it's based on. It was an experiment."
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