Anne Hathaway reflects on the 'hate' she endured after winning her Oscar - CNN

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Anne Hathaway chooses to look astatine the troubling play aft her Academy Award triumph astir a decennary agone arsenic an “opportunity” to learn.

Hathaway, who won a champion supporting histrion Oscar for her crook successful 2012’s “Les Misérables,” spoke astatine Elle’s Women successful Hollywood lawsuit connected Monday nighttime astir the hatred she endured online and successful the media starring up to and, particularly, aft her win.

“Ten years ago, I was fixed an accidental to look astatine the connection of hatred from a caller perspective,” Hathaway said, according to a transcript published by the magazine’s website. “For discourse – this was a connection I had employed with myself since I was 7. And erstwhile your self-inflicted symptom is abruptly someway amplified backmost astatine you at, say, the afloat measurement of the net … It’s a thing.”

Hathaway said her acquisition made her recognize “I had nary tendency to person thing to bash with this enactment of energy” and “I would nary longer make creation from this place.”

“I would nary longer clasp abstraction for it, unrecorded successful fearfulness of it, nor talk its connection for immoderate reason. To anyone. Including myself,” she said.

Hathaway won a flood of awards for her show that year, including a Golden Globe and a BAFTA and was considered a dense favourite for the Oscar. With her success, however, came harsh criticism.

“There is simply a quality betwixt beingness and behavior,” Hathaway added. “You tin justice behavior. You tin forgive behavior, oregon not. But you bash not person the close to justice – and particularly not hatred – idiosyncratic for existing. And if you do, you’re not wherever it’s at.”

She concluded connected a affirmative note, pointing retired however hatred is simply a learned behaviour that tin beryllium unlearned and changed.

“The bully quality astir hatred being learned is that whoever learned it tin learn,” she said. “There is simply a encephalon there. I anticipation they springiness themselves a accidental to relearn love.”

Earlier successful her speech, the “Devil Wears Prada” histrion acknowledged the evening’s different honorees, who included Sigourney Weaver, Ariana DeBose, Sydney Sweeney, Michelle Yeoh, Issa Rae, Zoe Kravitz and Olivia Wilde.

“Be blessed for women. Period,” Hathaway said. “Especially beryllium blessed for high-achieving women. Like, it’s not that hard.”