Anne Hathaway gets honest about 'The Idea of You' big age gap

The Idea of You, a new rom-com is changing the traditional look of the genre by making a 40-year-old woman (Anne Hathaway) fall to a younger guy (Nicholas Galitzine). 

During an interview with Today, the Dark Knight Rises actress said the film directly addressed the issue instead of working around it.

“It’s kind of fun to be in a film where we talk about it, where we don’t dance around it, but we actually embrace her point of view on it,” she said.

Anne, meanwhile, said the age of forty means different things to different people.

“It’s funny, it’s OK if 40 is old, it’s OK if 40 isn’t old, it’s OK whatever it is, because it’s personal,” she continued. “For Solène, her point of view is, you know, she became a mom really young and she really wanted to have a career and so she doesn’t totally identify with her age."

The 41-year-old said ultimately it all boiled down to the relationship between a couple regardless of age.

“She feels like maybe she’s done things a little bit out of order and for her, 40 means it's a time ... of self discovery for her." 

Noting, “And that’s what the movie says … how wonderful that she finds someone that she feels so supported by, seen by, embraced by, valued by.”

The Idea of You will air on Amazon on May 2.