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Anne Hathaway says she fights typecasting as she chats up her May/December romance movie The Idea Of You: 'I don't want to be pigeonholed, I want to have fun'

Anne Hathaway has fought hard to get the kinds of movie role she wants. The actress, 41, wants to continue to grow as an actress.

While promoting the romcom about an older women who begins a romance with a younger poop star at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, the Oscar winner told Vogue she doesn't want to be typecast. She starred as a high school student who lived with her single mom in San Francisco, but only discovered she was the heir to the throne of the fictional country of Genovia as she approached her 18th birthday. According to Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee, Hathaway was attired in full Princess Diaries 2 regalia when she auditioned for the part of Lurline, a wife and mother married to Jake Gyllenhaal's closeted homosexual.

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