Anne Hathaway Compared Tom Holland to the Very First Movie Stars
“He reminds me of the first generation of movie stars who were all a combination of pro-athletes, vaudeville performers, stunt people and wildly hopeful creatives,” Anne Hathaway said of her “Odyssey” co-star. “Who also had that magic thing where you can imagine being best friends if only you were lucky enough to meet and have a beer with them.”
She called him “made of the sort of stuff you can’t teach.” Then she went further: “He is really one-of-one.”
Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland play mother and son in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” She’s Penelope, he’s Telemachus, and Matt Damon plays Odysseus. The film hits theaters July 17.
Her words came in an email to Esquire, written for the magazine’s June profile of Holland. The admiration runs both ways. Holland told the magazine he once stayed late on set just to watch a roughly nine-minute IMAX scene between Hathaway and Damon, floored by “their level of focus, their level of discipline.”
She also couldn’t resist a wink. Right after the line about grabbing a beer with him, she added, “Or, in Tom and my case, a Bero.” Bero is the non-alcoholic beer brand Holland founded. He doesn’t drink.
Her highest praise was for what she sees beyond the acting. Holland is “an artist through and through, as well as a legit and successful businessman.”
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