Recently, a social networking forum “digged” the interview between Anne Hathaway and MC Matt Lauer on the Today program in 2012.
Specifically, Anne Hathaway’s response was related to her incident at a movie premiere at the same time. Accordingly, when getting out of the car to enter the red carpet, a photographer deliberately crouched to capture the moment Anne Hathaway revealed herself. The photo was then posted all over the newspapers and social networking forums.
However, the situation was worse when later, male MC Matt Lauer had delicate questions related to Anne Hathaway’s photo case. “Anne Hathaway, good morning. Nice to meet you. I’ve seen a lot of pictures of you lately!”, Matt Lauer said.
The fact that a reporter deliberately took pictures of Anne Hathaway is considered a “sexual harassment” act worthy of condemnation.
To this question, Anne Hathaway just laughed and purposely moved on. But this male MC decided not to let it go when he continued to ask: “Let’s get straight to the point! You recently had a small one. What is the lesson you have learned here?”.
At this point, Anne Hathaway immediately had a “very harsh” and very intelligent answer: “It was clearly an unnecessary incident. And I am quite upset about two things. First, I am sad because we are in the process. living in an era where someone takes pictures of other people when they are in a rather sensitive situation, instead of doing something nice and deleting it, they profit by selling such photos.
Second, I also regret that we live in a culture that worships the sexualization of the involuntary.”
Notably, in 2017, Matt Lauer was fired from NBC for inappropriate sexual assaults in the workplace.