Los Angeles, April 11 – Hollywood star Anne Hathaway drew inspiration from Grammy winner Taylor Swift for her new movie, "Mother Mary," according to the film's director, David Lowery.
The 43-year-old actress plays a pop star who has a "psychosexual affair" with a fashion designer, played by Michaela Coel in the upcoming film.
He told Empire magazine: "Her 'Reputation' concert film is one of the best concert films ever made. It's truly phenomenal. And for our concert sequences, we repeatedly looked at it. You wouldn't believe how much time we spent discussing Taylor."
The filmmaker added: "We took three songs from 'Reputation' and broke them down, shot by shot, and looked at them like: 'Okay, if we were doing these, how much would these shots cost in visual effects?' We used that as a budgeting tool, because we didn't know how to realistically pull off a stadium concert-show on a minimal budget. We were literally using 'Reputation' as a guide. I could talk about 'Reputation' all day."
Lowery revealed that he attended one of Swift's concerts with Hathaway, and the actress even gifted him a friendship bracelet inspired by the singer, according to femalefirst.co.uk.
He said: "When we wrapped, Annie gave me a Taylor Swift-style beaded bracelet with 'Anti-Hero' on it. I definitely brought a lot of Taylor Swift to the table in terms of who Mother Mary was. I would often think: 'Imagine Taylor Swift in 10 or 15 years,' that's sort of who this character could be."
This comes after Hathaway said she found the movie challenging because most of the music wasn't completed by the time filming started, so she had to go ahead without knowing any of the songs.
She told Vogue magazine: "I had to accept being a beginner. The humility of that - showing up every day knowing you're going to suck.
"And it has to be okay. You're not 'bad'. You're just a beginner. Getting to that mindset - I had to let go of some things that were hard to let go of. It was liberating. But it was hard, the way transformative experiences can be hard."
She added: "It was so confusing. I had to learn… because if I had had the music a year before we ever turned a camera on, I would have tattooed every note of it on my soul, and there would have been a whole process, very specific. And that wasn't available to me. In the end, I am very grateful that I couldn't control things."