Talking to People in 2019, Anne herself mentioned: “Can I serve some tea? I turned down that gig and James is the one who talked me into it.
Reflecting on how badly the night went, the star added: “When every little thing calmed down, I believed: ‘You’ve received to be kidding me.’ The first intuition is often the precise one… All the the reason why I refused have come true.”
And James echoed this sentiment in a 2016 interview with New York magazinethe place he mentioned, “When Anne Hathaway determined to host the Oscars with me… She had mentioned no earlier than, after which they requested me to ask her, and I mentioned, ‘Let’s simply do it. It’s going to be an journey,’ after which we’ll have quite a lot of shit. I most likely achieved greater than her, however she achieved rather a lot.
He went on to downplay the damaging response, insisting: “I’ll do what they ask of me and I’ll do it as finest I can, however I do not want this to be the very best Oscar ever. I get nothing from it. At finest, even when I eradicated it, it would not assist my profession, as a result of that is not what it is based mostly on. It was an experiment.”
