The actress confessed that she lied to get the co-star in the movie
"It is not something new, they are stories as old as humanity, the only thing that has changed is the tools and that now we are beginning to get to know the digital space," the Oscar-winning actress in 2013 for Les Miserables analyzes in an interview.
Anne Hathaway lied to stay with the lead
In her return to television, the actress plays one of the founders of WeWork, a popular company born in 2010, during the fever for shared workspaces (coworking), which came to be valued at around 50 billion dollars, until it was discovered that he inflated his accounts and resembled a pyramid scheme.
Hathaway herself admits to being interested in the idea that she hides behind the motto "fake it till you make it" because in certain areas she comes to respect herself.
"I have done it myself. When I auditioned for 'Brokeback Mountain' I said that I could ride a horse when I didn't know how. I had the intention of learning, yes, but at that moment I lied," she recalls about one of the roles that catapulted her name to the first line of cinema.
According to her example, if someone wants something and gets it, "we don't question it", but if it fails, it's when we don't hesitate to point the finger. What WeCrashed is aiming for is one of the most surreal stories of US investment speculation.
What is 'WeCrashed' about, the new series by Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto
Based on the WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork podcast, the series tells the story of Adam (Jared Leto) and Rebekah Neumann (Hathaway), who founded WeWork as a co-working space rental business. They came to have 12,500 employees in 29 countries and diversified the business to housing, education, and gyms.
His brand reached a global value of $47 billion in less than a decade and then plunged just as it was due to go public amid accusations of a Ponzi scheme.
"The series tells how their relationship influenced the rise and fall of the company," Hathaway details. "It's quite complex."
While he was an ambitious businessman in New York, she was a yoga instructor and aspiring actress in Los Angeles who became something of a "spirit guide" for the company.
WeCrashed comes alongside other productions that recount real frauds such as The Dropout, about the Silicon Valley company that promised to revolutionize medicine and ended up with its director in court; Inventing Anna; or The Tinder Swindler.
"We live in a time of great global access and things are taking on epic proportions," analyzes the actress.
The speculative bubbles, the fever for cryptocurrencies, or the NFTs that grab the headlines day after day are the results of a world in which, Hathaway considers, "everything grows much faster than in the past."
"People are trying to link capitalist practices with spiritual meaning and I'm not sure how that's going to go. I don't think it has much of a future," she notes.
