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Anne Hathaway as Fantine

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Anne Hathaway as Fantine
    I had concerns for a moment about Vogue somehow fetishizing how wan Anne is in this portrait, but it was part of a series of the entire cast, so I think... maybe we're okay (although the article seems to commend her for eating two squares of rice a day so she can lose fifteen pounds, but at least SHE admits that was crazy; I wish she had further said, "And it was totally unhealthy, so please, NOBODY DO THAT," but we can't always get what we want). It's stunning art photography. Listen, she's probably going to win the Oscar. Let's just get that off our chests right now. She will for sure win the Golden Globe, because this is going to be in the "comedy/musical" category, right? And WHO is there going to compete with this? Maybe Helena Bonham Carter, for the same movie? But no, because she has no showy death scene. So as much as I am not on Team Hathaway, particularly, she probably is going to deserve it. And whatever falsely modest, highly Swiftian "I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY LIIIIIFE AND YOU LIIIIIKE ME" speech she gives is going to make me want to divorce my TV, and I need to brace myself, but I am also going to have to admit it was earned and that "Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway" is a real thing. So at least it'll happen for a movie that is probably going to be freaking terrific. I mean, if she'd won for Love And Other Drugs, I would've had to divorce my TV AND my sanity.
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