Anne Hathaway Is Psyched: A History of Red Carpet Enthusiasm
Anne Hathaway has been a red carpet fixture since 2001’s The Princess Diaries. Since then, she’s gone from teen queen to legit movie star, picking up an Oscar nomination (and hosting gig) along the way. But one thing has not changed: how totally and completely psyched she is to be at a premiere. The paparazzi and her producers must love her, because Anne Hathaway is the most psyched person ever when it comes to red carpet photos, no matter how good or bad the movie. Here’s the proof!


Here she is in 2001, with Mandy Moore at a Princess Diaries premiere. She looks pretty pumped!
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In 2004 for The Princess Diaries 2, that energy has not waned.
Photo: Frazer Harrison/2004 Getty Images
Maybe the enthusiasm is contagious? Meryl Streep looks pretty thrilled to see Anne at the 2006 premiere for The Devil Wears Prada.
Photo: ALBERTO PIZ...Maybe the enthusiasm is contagious? Meryl Streep looks pretty thrilled to see Anne at the 2006 premiere for The Devil Wears Prada.
Photo: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/2006 AFP
She does not look that jazzed here. But she's promoting Brokeback Mountain, and you can't really get giddy on the red carpet for that movie, no matter...
She does not look that jazzed here. But she's promoting Brokeback Mountain, and you can't really get giddy on the red carpet for that movie, no matter how good it is.
Photo: Peter Kramer/2005 Getty Images
This is how excited she was on the red carpet for Get Smart in 2008. Get Smart! Anne Hathaway is more pumped about Get Smart than everyone else in the...
This is how excited she was on the red carpet for Get Smart in 2008. Get Smart! Anne Hathaway is more pumped about Get Smart than everyone else in the world, combined.
Photo: TIZIANA FABI/2008 AFP
Still psyched! Now about Rachel Getting Married, also in 2008.
Photo: DAMIEN MEYER/2008 AFP
With performer and poet Beau Sia, still very rah-rah for Rachel Getting Married.
Photo: Michael Buckner/2008 Getty Images
And up to 11 ...
Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/2008 AFPShe even looked thrilled to be promoting Bride Wars in 2009.
Photo: Stephen Lovekin/2009 Getty ImagesShe's obscuring her face, but that blue dress screams "I'm even able to be enthusiastic about 2010's Valentine's Day."
Photo: Jason Merritt...She's obscuring her face, but that blue dress screams "I'm even able to be enthusiastic about 2010's Valentine's Day."
Photo: Jason Merritt/2010 Getty ImagesLook alive, Jake Gyllenhaal! Anne is radically out-grinning you at a Love and Other Drugs screening in 2010.
Photo: James Devaney/2010 James ...
Look alive, Jake Gyllenhaal! Anne is radically out-grinning you at a Love and Other Drugs screening in 2010.
Photo: James Devaney/2010 James Devaney
Jim Sturgess is trying, but that regular smile is not enough to out-enthusiasm Anne, even though their 2011 movie One Day is kind of a bummer.
Photo:...Jim Sturgess is trying, but that regular smile is not enough to out-enthusiasm Anne, even though their 2011 movie One Day is kind of a bummer.
Photo: Fred Duval/2011 Fred DuvalYay! One Day!
Photo: Fred Duval/2011 Fred DuvalYay! The Dark Knight Rises!
Photo: Frazer Harrison/2012 Getty ImagesIn fairness, lots of people were pretty fired up for Batman. Not as fired up as Anne Hathaway, but still pretty fired up.
Photo: Larry Busacca/2012 G...In fairness, lots of people were pretty fired up for Batman. Not as fired up as Anne Hathaway, but still pretty fired up.
Photo: Larry Busacca/2012 Getty ImagesAmanda Seyfried and Samantha Banks are obviously smiling as hard as they can, and yet they cannot hold a (sad, French, maligned) candle to Anne Hathaw...
Amanda Seyfried and Samantha Banks are obviously smiling as hard as they can, and yet they cannot hold a (sad, French, maligned) candle to Anne Hathaway's to-the-rafters Les Miserables grin.
Photo: Stuart Wilson/2012 Getty ImagesNot even close, Amanda.
Photo: Stuart Wilson/2012 Getty Images