Anne Hathaway is “a big weirdo”. The 25-year-old actress said although she loves making mainstream movies like The Devil Wears Prada, she also enjoys lending her talents to smaller projects like her new film Rachel Getting Married. She told BANG Showbiz: “I’m a big weirdo, so I’d love to do much more experimental stuff. And the fact I haven’t done it up until now is not through a lack of desire, it’s more a lack of opportunity. “I just think, ‘The freakier the better’, you know? “I know some of my choices are more mainstream and I think there is a creativity to that as well. But it’s amazing to be able to say at 25-years-old, I have made a wedding movie with Kate Hudson in Bride Wars and to also say I’ve made a wedding movie with Jonathan Demme.” Demme directs Anne in drama Rachel Getting Married, where she plays a drug addict who leaves rehab to attend her sister’s wedding.

Anne Hathaway is set to star in a musical in New York’s famous Broadway theatre district. The Rachel Getting Married actress – who made her Broadway debut in 2002 show Carnival! – has reportedly been having closed door reading with producers of new musical Promises, Promises. Theatre website Broadway World claims: “We have just got an exclusive account of a top secret, closed reading that happened over the weekend. Our guest, who was invited by one of the actors, reports that there was a full table reading and sing-through of the musical Promises, Promises by Neil Simon, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. “The reading starred Sean Hayes and Anne Hathaway along with a full cast plus several background singers, and was staged by director/choreographer Rob Ashford.” The show bosses are believed to have been overwhelmed by Anne’s performance and excited by the chemistry between her and Will and Grace star Sean. The website added: “We’re told that Hayes and Hathaway stunned the audience with their performances (both singing and acting) and that they garnered many huge and consistent laughs throughout – as well as a few tears.” Promises, Promises is a comedy based on Billy Wilder’s 1960 movie The Apartment. It originally ran on Broadway from 1968 to 1972, with a total of 1,281 performances.

Moving on from jailed ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway told PEOPLE she is crushing on a new mystery man. “This guy I know in L.A. is kind of doing it for me right now,” the actress told PEOPLE at the London premiere for her newest movie, Rachel Getting Married. “When I think of sexy, I think of him.” “You know when sometimes you don’t know someone very well – you’ll probably never see them again – but you just meet them and you’re like ‘WOW, you really have it going on’?” But the actress cautions that things haven’t gotten serious yet. “I’m totally single right now,” says Hathaway, who wore a blue Zac Posen gown and Bulgari jewels to the premiere, which was part of the BFI 52nd London Film Festival. “But I happened to meet a sexy guy the other day.” Hathaway’s due to spend time with another sexy guy – Johnny Depp – as filming starts for Tim Burton’s upcoming film, Alice in Wonderland, in which she plays the role of the White Queen. Is she excited to work with Depp? “Uh, yeah, ya think?” Hathaway, 25, told PEOPLE. “I hope I don’t faint. I’m wearing a corset which is difficult enough, but then to have to wear a corset and be short-breathed around Johnny Depp?” And her friends are buzzing with excitement at her upcoming costar. “I have so many people coming out of the woodwork who really have never wanted to visit me on the set before just want to kind of come and hang out,” she says. “Everyone just wants to meet Johnny. “It might be my hardest role to date – to keep my cool.”

“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” That’s what Raffaello Follieri’s lawyer had the gall to write in a letter to the judge on his client’s behalf. But maybe he should have written, “Anne Hathaway and her celebrity devil friends made him do it.” Follieri is due to be sentenced for various nefarious financial dealings on Oct. 23. His legal team is desperately trying to get a reduced sentence of three years. So natch, they have gotten lots of of folks speaking on his behalf about what a great dude he is and how he’s got a sick mom. Yada, yada, yada. But check out the letter with his character references and his lawyers’ explanation about what happened to poor Raffaello when he fell in with the wrong rich-and-famous crowd. His attorney writes: “When he was only 24 years old, this young man from a small city in the South of Italy found himself a successful international entrepreneur befriended by the rich and famous. In a brief period of time, he was socializing with some of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world. He was surrounded by movie stars and celebrities and this young man, who neither drinks nor smokes, became intoxicated with it all. Unfortunately, he lacked the resources to maintain the opulent lifestyle of his new friends. Even more unfortunately, he had almost unfettered access to hundreds of thousands of dollars with few controls on his spending ability, until it was too late. Soon he succumbed to the temptation. The result was a colossal error in judgment which has had a devastating impact on Raffaello and those around him.” Oh, puh-lease. His “new friends,” those darn movie stars and celebrities, made him embezzle money? Source

Anne Hathaway is convinced she’ll emerge stronger from the wreckage of her relationship with jailed former fiance Raffaello Follieri. The actress ditched Follieri in June after discovering he was facing 14 counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and money laundering. The 30-year-old is currently on trial in Manhattan and is facing a lengthy prison sentence. Hathaway has been forced to deal with his betrayal in the public eye, as she promoted movie Get Smart and new release Rachel Getting Married. But she is determined the trauma will make her a stronger person. She says, “Everything that has happened to me, good and bad, I feel has happened for a reason. “I’ve been made stronger from the good stuff and much, much stronger from the bad stuff.”