"It was just me on my own for the first time in a few years," says Hathaway, who left her assistant, her boyfriend and Labrador Esmerelda behind for the long European shoot. New friends, who saw the London riots arrive "on their doorstep," and her new identity, as Emma Morley in One Day, awaited.
With Emma written as British, "it is not an obvious choice to cast her, but there was something about her, when I met her, that I thought that we should be fortunate that she liked Emma Morley that much and identified that much with the character and wanted to (come to) England and play that part,"