American actress Anne Hathaway plays a Yorkshire girl Emma in her new movie One Day, but the 28-year-old star insists she was more comfortable stripping off for a skinny dipping scene with her co-star Jim Sturgess than speaking in her character’s regional dialect. Anne, who has taken off her clothes for parts in Havoc, Brokeback Mountain and Love And Other Drugs, said, “I was more nervous about the accent than nudity. I mean, you can do sit-ups as prep for the nudity. But there aren’t a lot of vocal sit-ups that you can do. Maybe it’s because I have more experience in my life being naked than pretending to be British. So I got more comfortable quickly with the nudity than I did with the accent.”
Despite her difficulties, the actress, who was born in New York and raised for most of her childhood in New Jersey, worked hard at mastering the accent, but was disappointed that she never dreamt in her British voice. Anne, who read the book Watching the English: the Hidden Rules of English Behaviour to held her with her accent, told The Sun newspaper, “I stayed in the accent and used British-isms. I was a little disappointed because I hoped I would start dreaming in the accent.”
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Leandro is the best father, says Price
Glamour model Katie Price thinks that her new boyfriend Leandro Penna’s behaviour towards her son Harvey is better than her ex-partners, Peter Andre and Dwight Yorke.
“Out of all the guys I’ve been with, Leo has been the best with Harvey definitely. He has a real love for him and Harvey loves him back, he wants to cuddle him all the time,” contactmusic.com quoted the 33-year-old as saying. Price has three children. Harvey, 9, with retired soccer player Yorke, and Junior, 6, and Princess Tiaamii, 4, from her marriage to Andre. “All my kids know who their dads are and I’m not trying to make anyone be anyone’s father, my life is what it is. My kids are not confused at all and they know who their dads are. Pete is one, no one is trying to replace him,”
—Bang Showbiz