Anna Hathaway is set to star in her third Christopher Nolan movie, and she recently told Women’s Wear Daily that “it makes me feel like I’m doing something right.” Hathaway made her Nolan debut as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises.” She was then cast opposite Matthew McConaughey in “Interstellar.” Now the Oscar winner is joining Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron and more in Nolan’s mysterious new film, details for which remain under wraps. It will be Nolan’s directorial follow-up to Oscar winner “Oppenheimer.”
“I have so many feelings about it that I don’t even know how to articulate,” Hathaway told WWD about joining her third Nolan movie. “It fills me with so much joy … I love Chris and Emma Nolan so much, and to be invited into their world [is] one of the best places you can find yourself. Getting to be invited twice really felt like something, three felt like it would’ve been greedy, so I never let myself hope that that would happen, and that it has makes me emotional, to be perfectly honest. It makes me feel like I’m doing something right”
Hathaway revealed to Vanity Fair earlier this year that she credits Nolan with saving her career after public opinion turned against her amid her Oscar season for “Les Miserables.” Hathaway was widely mocked online at this time, and she once remembered googling herself after winning the Oscar only to see one of the top search results was an article with the title: “Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway?”
“A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” Hathaway now told Vanity Fair. “I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of.”
Hathaway was referring to the role of NASA scientist Dr. Amelia Brand in “Interstellar,” adding about Nolan: “I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect. And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.”
Expanding on her “Interstellar” casting, Hathaway told WWD that it was “vitalizing, reviving, encouraging, and it was just a gift in that moment. Getting ‘Interstellar’ at any point in your life would have been a career highlight. The moment that I got to go into that world, for me personally, it was the safest and most exhilarating place I could ever be as an actor and as a human.”
Hathaway isn’t the only actor over the moon about joining Nolan’s new movie. Tom Holland told “Good Morning America” that getting the offer to star in the film was the phone call “of a lifetime,” adding: “It was reminiscent of getting the call about ‘Spider-Man’ 10 years ago. It’s an amazing thing for me. I’m super proud and I’m really, really excited.”
Nolan is writing and directing the new movie, which Universal Pictures is releasing in theaters on July 17, 2026. The upcoming feature, which does not have a title, is expected to start shooting in early 2025.