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Anne Hathaway: I didn't feel happy about Oscar win

"You win an Oscar and you're supposed to be happy. I didn't feel that way," the actress said.

By Annie Martin
Anne Hathaway with her Oscar for "Les Misérables" at the Academy Awards on February 24, 2013. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
1 of 3 | Anne Hathaway with her Oscar for "Les Misérables" at the Academy Awards on February 24, 2013. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Anne Hathaway wasn't as happy about her Oscar win as people may think.

The 33-year-old actress admitted in an interview with the Guardian that she felt more uneasy than thrilled when she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables in 2013.

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"I felt very uncomfortable. I kind of lost my mind doing that movie and it hadn't come back yet. Then I had to stand up in front of people and feel something I don't feel which is uncomplicated happiness," Hathaway said.

"It's an obvious thing, you win an Oscar and you're supposed to be happy. I didn't feel that way. I felt wrong that I was standing there in a gown that cost more than some people are going to see in their lifetime, and winning an award for portraying pain that still felt very much a part of our collective experience as human beings," she explained.

"I tried to pretend that I was happy and I got called out on it, big time. That's the truth and that's what happened. It sucks. But what you learn from it is that you only feel like you can die from embarrassment, you don't actually die," the star added.

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Hathaway, who wore an $80,000 Prada gown to the 2013 Oscars, played Fantine in Les Misérables. The star faced heavy backlash during awards season for her perceived insincerity and strong desire for an Oscar.

"People treated me a certain way," she said in the November 2014 issue of Harper's Bazaar. "But I've grown from it. This whole thing has made me a way more compassionate and loving person."

"[I felt] shocked and slapped and embarrassed," the actress recalled. "Even now I can feel the shame. Now I'd be fine. I really would be. I'd let it roll off my back, but at the time was still partly Fantine. I was still identifying with being a victim."

Hathaway has since starred in Interstellar, The Intern and Alice Through the Looking Glass. She will next appear in the sci-fi thriller Colossal with Dan Stevens and Jason Sudeikis.

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