Anne Hathaway has signed on for a new role: Fiancee.
A spokesman for the 29-year-old actress says Hathaway is engaged to boyfriend and fellow actor Adam Shulman.
Publicist Stephen Huvane revealed no other details.
Hathaway is among the stars of the anticipated Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises.” She was nominated for an Academy Award for 2008′s “Rachel Getting Married” and hosted the 2011 Oscars with James Franco.
Hathaway’s other credits include “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Get Smart.”
It looks like glamorous actress Anne Hathaway was excited to spend some time with her boyfriend.
She giggled as she splashed around with her beau Adam Shulman a romantic break in Capri, Italy.
The Love and Other Drugs actress dressed up in less than flattering 1950s-style green periwinkle bathing suit.
The Oscars presenter showed off her slim figure when she jumped into the water for a swim while holidaying on fashion mogul Valentino Garavani’s yacht.
And she really perked up when she saw jewellery designer Adam,30, showing off his muscles in his swimming shorts.
The couple shared a few kisses as they towelled off after their ocean-based workout.
These days, Anne Hathaway is a busy woman. Or make that a busy Catwoman.
The 28-year-old actress is training for the physical demands of her lead role in “Catwoman” (and its sleek, physique-revealing catsuit) as she flexes her comedy muscles alongside James Franco as co-hosts of Sunday’s Academy Awards.
“There’s a lot going on, but it’s all really super-duper positive,” Hathaway said between fittings Wednesday. “I feel like I have a big fight coming up and everyone’s giving me the thumbs-up and the ‘you’ll-rock-it’ fist pump. I have unbelievable support.”
The Oscar team is helping Hathaway and Franco find their funniest material, she said, and the producers “are making it as easy as possible on me.”
“It’s all been kind of wonderful and jovial,” she said. “It turns out it takes a village to host the Oscars.”
Hathaway’s biggest challenge this week? Navigating the city’s famous freeways and making it to all her appointments on time. But she’s got that one covered: “Luckily my assistant is a really good driver!”
Director Adam Shankman is said to be interested in casting the 28-year-old actress in the big screen adaptation of the musical, which is based on 80s rock hits, alongside Tom – who will play rock star Stacee Jax.
If she signs up, Anne will portray a journalist who seeks to ruin Stacee’s career with a damning expose – but instead ends up falling for his charms.
The brunette beauty would also have to sing in the film as the role requires her to duet with Tom’s character on a rendition of Foreigner’s ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’.
However, Anne’s decision on accepting the role will depend on whether the shooting schedule for new Batman movie ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ – in which she plays Catwoman – will allow it, as both projects are due to be filmed around the same time.
Alec Baldwin has been confirmed for ‘Rock of Ages’ and will play Dennis, the owner of rock club The Bourbon, while Russell Brand is said to be in the running for the role of Lonny, the manager of The Bourbon.
Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway and George Lopez
Anne Hathaway has clawed her way into the latest Batman movie, nabbing the role of Selina Kyle and her alter ego, Catwoman.
Warner Bros. announced the casting Wednesday for Christopher Nolan’s latest film in the superhero saga, “The Dark Knight Rises.” Hathaway will appear opposite Christian Bale, who’s returning as Bruce Wayne and Batman.
The studio also announced that Tom Hardy, whom Nolan directed in last year’s “Inception,” will play one of Batman’s enemies, Bane. “The Dark Knight Rises” is slated for release on July 20, 2012.
Hathaway, an Oscar nominee for 2008′s “Rachel Getting Married,” will co-host the Academy Awards with James Franco on Feb. 27.
The show’s creator Ryan Murphy has confirmed that the 28-year-old actress will make an appearance – after she approached him looking for a role, suggesting she could play the lesbian aunt of Chris Colfer’s character Kurt.
Ryan said: “The thing that’s great about Anne Hathaway is that she created her own character and we just ran into her and we said ‘Really?’ So we’re going to do that. We love her.”
Meanwhile, one of the show’s other stars, Amber Riley has also given more news about upcoming episodes – revealing that two Justin Bieber songs have been planned into the script.
The actress, who plays Mercedes Jones, said: “There’s gonna be two Bieber songs, and I think ‘Baby’ is one. I think that’s correct. ‘Somebody to Love.’ I think … those are the two songs.”
Ryan confirmed that “Bieber comes up in episode 13 as a small plot point” – and added that another Lady Gaga episode is in the works.
The superstar’s unreleased single ‘Born This Way’ will be used to highlight the plight of school bully Karofsky, played by Max Adler, who the show has hinted might be gay.
Ryan explained: “I love that that song is an anthem. This show is by nature optimistic, and I think a character like Karofsky could turn to booze or pills or alcohol and kill themselves or do something dark. But I also love Max and I love that character and I sorta want that character to have a happy ending.
“So I don’t really know what that’s going to be. But I do know we’re going to do a whole episode that’s about that song.”
Last month, Chris Colfer named Anne as one of the celebrities he’d most like to work with on the show.
He said: “Can you imagine a family with myself, Mike O’Malley, Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway? That’s one hell of a family!”
The 28-year-old screen beauty – who flashes her flesh in a number of scenes in her new film ‘Love & Other Drugs’ alongside Jake Gyllenhaal – is happy to take her clothes off for the cameras if the role requires nudity and she relies on her co-stars to help her overcome any pre-scene nerves.
She told BANG Showbiz: “Doing nudity is really a part of being an actor and you know at some point it might happen. But everyone wants to be respectful of each other and everyone wants each other to feel as comfortable as possible so I think those days have a focus.
“In this film (‘Love & Other Drugs’) we really approached it from a very prepared place. We discussed what we wanted to do beforehand and what we were comfortable with, we traded references from other films to establish an index of communicational references that we share. So by the time we came to do the scenes we were very well prepared.”
Although she is happy to bare all on film, Anne she needed to work closely with Jake on the lovemaking sequences.
She said: “Some of the intimate scenes required even more trust and were even more difficult to get to and work through – to get yourself into that place and sustain it for a long period of time to be able to return back to those emotions again and again and again. Physical challenges are one thing but to actually leave yourself open and to mean it I find quite difficult some days.”
James Franco and Anne Hathaway have just what Academy Awards producers want as hosts of Hollywood’s biggest night. They’ll put on a show, rather than just another awards ceremony, organizers say.
Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer, producers of the Feb. 27 telecast, said Monday they had chosen Franco and Hathaway as hosts because the two are rising stars with broad talent that will help turn the night into a celebration of film.
“What we have here are two really emerging talents who are very respected and are going to have, I think, magnificent careers,” Mischer said. “They deserve to be there, they’ve got the chops to be there, they want to be there, and I think that’s going to make the audience really relate to them.”
Both have done serious drama and comedy. Hathaway earned a best-actress Oscar nomination for 2008′s “Rachel Getting Married” and starred in such comedies as “The Princess Diaries” and “The Devil Wears Prada.”
Franco had an Emmy nomination for the title role of 2001′s “James Dean,” costarred in the Oscar-winning “Milk” and delivered a memorable comic turn as a spacey pot dealer in “Pineapple Express.”
Hathaway also showed off her musical talents in a duet at the 2008 Oscars with the show’s host, Hugh Jackman. Oscar producers were uncertain whether Franco can sing.
“There’s a rumor that he can, and we will be exploring that,” Cohen said.
“What we do know is they both have a great sense of humor and a great sense of comedy,” Mischer said.
While most Oscar shows over the past two decades had a comedian such as Billy Crystal, Chris Rock or Jon Stewart as emcee, Hathaway and Franco continue a recent trend of using film stars.
Steve Martin, a past solo host of the Oscars, and his “It’s Complicated” co-star Alec Baldwin teamed up as hosts last time, while “X-Men” and Broadway star Jackman was host the year before.
That harks back to a period in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, in between the years when Bob Hope and later Johnny Carson were fairly regular Oscar hosts, when big-screen stars would partner up as masters of ceremony.
“There was a period for many years after Bob Hope and before Johnny Carson where movie stars would host every year,” Cohen said. “Mostly, that hasn’t happened in years since, but perhaps we’re entering another period of the glory years of movie stars hosting the Oscars.”
Franco and Hathaway as hosts also could revive another old Oscar night occurrence: The possibility that one or both hosts might also be nominees. Franco is considered a solid best-actor prospect for the survival drama “127 Hours,” while Hathaway has a chance for a best-actress slot for the romance “Love & Other Drugs.”
It happened a handful of times in decades past that hosts also wound up as nominees. Michael Caine and Walter Matthau were nominated in years they served as co-hosts, while David Niven won the best-actor Oscar for 1958′s “Separate Tables” at the same ceremony in which he was co-host.
The producers say they aim to keep the Oscar show fast-paced and shorter than it has been in recent times. The show has dragged on for four hours in some years.
The job of keeping the show brisk has been made easier since lifetime-achievement Oscars and other honorary awards were moved to a separate event. But producers will have to squeeze in 10 best-picture nominees for the second-straight year, double the usual number.
Cohen and Mischer said they also plan to continue recent efforts to liven up the way some awards are presented and group awards together in ways that make sense to viewers.
“We’re really hoping this year to link what James and Anne are doing thematically to the show,” Cohen said. “That they are the world’s window in that they are the welcoming committee, but also the two people through the evening who are taking you through this journey of giving out 24 Oscars.”
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