Scorping Up With Anne Hathaway

Michael Showalter, who made The Idea of You, says Hathaway cared about everything from the interior design of her character’s house to what pens she used. “She’s fiery,” he says. “She has deeply held feelings about things that can feel intractable. I’m a Gemini. Things change constantly for me. Once we put an astrological sign to it, that opened up the floodgates for us to communicate in a different way. I’m not joking. And I’m not an astrology guy, but even I was like, ‘Oh, my God. Of course. I understand you now. It’s just that you’re a Scorpio.’ ”

Vanity Fair – Anne Hathaway Gets Real 

I’m loving Anne Hathaway’s art-deco Goth Scorp-up on the cover of Vanity Fair this month and it’s not only style. The actual interview contains multiple mentions of her Scorpio nature.

I hadn’t noticed the issue until a MM member messaged me from the mall, excited. I literally cannot recall the last time I received an ‘elated at the mall’ missive so this in itself feels new-era-ish.

Hey Mystic,

Currently in some middle of nowhere American supermarket, short cutting through the aisles and something stopped me dead.

Vanity Fair magazine, April 2024 American edition. Hathaway on the cover – she looks like the kind of vampire Anne Rice writes about. You HAVE to see this.

Hope you’re keeping well,

A

I sent back an ‘are you okay?’ email, thinking she might have been affected by styrofoam fumes or a downmarket version of Havana syndrome from the supermarket lights & consumer surveillance psy-ops.

“It’s highly likely I was brain addled, from the sheer scale of the place, and the fluorescent lights. But that cover slapped me sideways – and I’m ambivalent about Hathaway!”

The interview and imagery are actually fantastic. Although my ambivalence re the actor dissolved when I saw her Catwoman – the subtle twitch-snarl when Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne corrects her pronunciation of Ibiza was magnificent.

In fact, it was not only truly cat-like, it revealed a world of truncated social aspiration and well-curated resentments.

So I’m not sure if it was the interviewer or the actor bringing it with all the Scorpio references, but Hathaway is having her Uranus opposition at the moment. She has a striking Scorpio stellium – Mercury, the Sun, Jupiter and Venus are all in this plutonic sign and the 12th house. Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus are opposing all of it from the 6th.

Could this be the inspo behind the stronger projection of her scorpiness? Or has the magazine decided that Scorp-Corp sells?

The cover shot makes me think that if The Crown producers decided ‘fuq it, we’re extending the series‘ Hathaway would be an excellent – albeit surreal – choice to play Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley.

It would need to be ultra-Goth: If I directed, I’d have her stalking around the stately (haunted) home in the post-midnight hours, trailed by a pack of ghostly-looking greyhounds, some incarnate and some not, of course. “What’s that scent?” she’ll wonder aloud…”It smells like Arpege gone off…mould? Ectoplasm…quite frightful…”

Thoughts?

Image: Norman Jean Roy – Vanity Fair