J-Law Is A Basket Of Kittens To Anne Hathaway’s Basket Of HATE

You’d think winning an Oscar would be a blissful day in a young starlet’s life, but Anne Hathaway’s had her moment in the sun blacked out by a big, fluffy, adorable cloud. That cloud is Jennifer Lawrence (meteorological metaphors are the coolest).

As highlighted in Ann Friedman’s piece in NYMag this morning, Hathaway unfairly became the Internet’s most hated woman of the day. “In some ways, the point of sitting on the bleachers of celebrity culture is the thrill of judging with impunity,” she says, going on to compare the two: “The biggest difference between them is their interview and red-carpet persona. Hathaway doesn’t have the same down-to-earth delivery. She’s charming, but not funny. Meanwhile Lawrence manages to exude a best-friend vibe even at a behind-the-curtain Oscar press conference.” There were endless gifs of Hathaway’s mock-modest guffawing and cutesy camera-baiting, and reports that she spent hours practicing her Best Supporting Actress acceptance speech to “appear more likable”. Remember how Garfield would go nuts whenever Nermal batted his (her?) eyelids? That’s how people feel about Anne Hathaway right now. Or as BuzzFeed summarised the whole scenario:

Meanwhile, Jennifer Lawrence is charming the pants off the world with her refreshing lack of pretension, flipping off photographers at press calls and freaking out while being flirtatiously propositioned by Jack Nicholson (who’s now that creepy old guy who tries to jump in your dance-circle when you’re out clubbing with your girls). Just check the headlines; people haven’t unanimously squealed so hard over the same thing since that YouTube video of the husky saying “I love you”.

Nevertheless, everyone likes an underdog (especially one who used to quote Elliott Smith lyrics in interviews and does a pretty funny impression of Joey Potter). As night turns to day, hate turns to love (or at least less-hate): a shit-stirring cameo in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s upcoming oddity Don Jon’s Addiction should help Hathaway shake her recent humourless, love-baiting shenanigans and the fickle interwebs will no doubt soon tire of J-Law’s clumsy adorableness. But until then, ZOMGAWWWWWW!