Anne Hathaway: 'I Looked Like My Gay Brother' In 'Les Miserables'

Anne Hathaway: 'I Looked Like My Gay Brother' In 'Les Miserables'

Anne Hathaway said that her transformation for the role of Fantine in the film adaptation of "Les Miserables" made her look like a boy, and a gay one for that matter.  

Playing the role of a dying young mother, abandoned by her lover and stricken with disease, came at a time when Hathaway was also planning her October wedding to actor Adam Schulman. She cut off her long locks for "Les Miserables" and instead sported a very short cut, her most extreme hair transformation for a film yet.

"When I eventually looked in the mirror I just thought I looked like my gay brother," Hathaway told an audience on Nov. 23 at the first screening of the classic musical. The film screened for the first time on Friday in New York City's Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

Hathaway also lost 25 pounds and worked for months with a vocal coach to meet director Tom Hooper's request for live singing, according to The Los Angeles Times. Hooper won an Oscar two years ago for his directing role in "The King's Speech."

"Les Miserables" stars Hugh Jackman, Samantha Barks, Eddie Redmayne, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. The film will have stiff competition at this year's Oscars in the best picture category based on the success of "Argo," "Lincoln" and "Silver Lining Playbook" but if it wins, it will be the Universal Studio's first best picture victory since 2001's "A Beautiful Mind."

The novel "Les Miserables" was written by Victor Hugo originally in French and first published in 1862. A Broadway show followed, upon which the film is based on.

Hathaway's last theater film was this year's "The Dark Knight Rises," where she played Bruce Wayne latest love interest Selina. She will star in two films debuting in 2014: "Rio 2" and "Robopocalypse."