In typical Hathaway style, she responded with the quip, “How much time do you have?”
“I’ll give you some tea: I was the ninth choice,” the star revealed.
“But I got it, hang in there, and never give up!”
Can you even begin to imagine anyone else as the frumpy-assistant-turned-it-girl Andy?
If you’re curious which actresses the studio considered first, wonder no more.
After offering McAdams the part three times, the producers begrudgingly turned their attention toward other options.
“It spoke to me,” she said during the reunion special.
According to former Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler, “Annie never gave up.
But as the story goes, it was Meryl Streep who finally persuaded the higher-ups to cast Hathaway.
