Courtesy of Prime In "The Idea of You," Anne Hathaway plays Solène, a 40-something single mom who falls for the much younger pop star Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine). In “The Idea of You,” Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old single mom who gets swept up in a romance with a 24-year-old boy-bander. Interestingly, what struck many viewers of the Prime rom-com was how Hathaway had somehow stopped the onslaught of time because she doesn’t look like a brittle old woman at her advanced age of 41.
Advertisement “Ok this movie is cute but Anne Hathaway is not believable as a 40-year-old mother of a teenager,” one person tweeted . “No one is going to believe Anne Hathaway is 40 I mean come on!?” another tweeted . “It is 2001.
Hollywood is trying to convince you Anne Hathaway is ugly,” one person tweeted alongside a still from the “Princess Diaries” and a photo from “The Idea of You.” “It is 2024. Hollywood is trying to convince you Anne Hathaway is old.
” What exactly is a 40-year-old woman supposed to look like? A “Golden Girl”? In response, a number of posts cropped up on Threads and X , formerly called Twitter, where women over 40 shared selfies to dispel the idea that 40 is the end of the line when it comes to sex appeal. (Some men participated in the trend , too.) This ageist discourse about #AnneHathaway in #theideaofyou not looking her age has me wanting to do an experiment.
I want to see how real women between 35 and 45 look like. So, let’.
