Anne Hathaway’s Mother Mary character is a ‘Lady Gaga-Taylor Swift hybrid’
Anne Hathaway is in her pop star era as Mother Mary (Getty)
Anne Hathaway is in her pop star era as Mother Mary (Getty)
Anne Hathaway’s character from upcoming pop epic Mother Mary has been described as a ‘Lady Gaga-Taylor Swift hybrid’ – and she recorded songs by Charli XCX.
And if that sentence sounds like a homosexual fever dream, it’s because that’s exactly what Mother Mary, from director David Lowery, is going to be.
To add fuel to the already-very-gay fire, the film sees Michaela Coel as Hathaway’s long-lost-but-reconnected friend (and-maybe-lover), Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbird and Snakes‘ Hunter Schafer, real-life pop star FKA Twigs and Kaia Gerber (Bottoms).
Produced by A24, Mother Mary features songs written by Charli XCX and produced by frequent Swift and Lana Del Rey collaborator Jack Antonoff – and in Vogue’s latest cover story, more details on both Hathaway’s role and the music from the Brat herself have been revealed.
“Anne Hathaway plays the title character — a sort of Gaga–Taylor Swift hybrid who is, uh, having a moment,” the profile states.
“And not “having a moment” in the sense of basking in the glow of public adoration, but something more like its opposite. Searching for her own center and finding only darkness, she has fled her tour and sought out the old friend (played by Michaela Coel) who helped craft her all-consuming public persona in the first place.”
The profile also reveals that when Hathaway started filming Mother Mary, the music for her on-screen pop-star persona had not yet been written.
Charli XCX and Antonoff (Midnights, Norman F**king Rockwell) watched Hathaway perform one of the film’s pivotal moments involving a dance sequence, and Charli XCX told Vogue that the moment informed the sound of Mother Mary herself.
“Anne’s movement was super graphic, very thrashing and jerky and bold in this super magical and scary way,” Charli told the publication. “It felt volatile and gripping, so Jack and I went away and thought about that.”
After the film first entered the public consciousness, LGBTQ+ fans immediately jumped on the notion that Coel and Hathaway’s characters would be romantically linked; while that hasn’t been explicitly clarified anywhere, it’s still a possibility.
Mother Mary has no release date yet.
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