NEED TO KNOW
- Anne Hathaway stars as a pop singer in the midst of an emotional disaster in A24’s first trailer for Mom Mary
- Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, Atheena Frizzell, Kaia Gerber, Jessica Brown Findlay and Alba Baptista additionally star within the film
- Mom Mary, which hits theaters in April, options new music by FKA twigs, Charli xcx and Jack Antonoff
Anne Hathaway is channeling her interior pop star for her subsequent film.
A24 launched the primary trailer for Mom Mary on Tuesday, Dec. 2, displaying Hathaway, 43, as a pop star named Mom Mary, who makes an attempt to reconnect together with her outdated buddy, a designer named Sam (Michaela Coel) to spooky and harmful ends as she begins to embark on a comeback tour.
“Lengthy-buried wounds rise to the floor when iconic pop star Mom Mary reunites together with her estranged finest buddy and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Coel, 38) on the eve of her comeback efficiency,” reads an official synopsis for the film.
Directed by David Lowery (The Inexperienced Knight), the movie additionally stars Hunter Schafer, Atheena Frizzell, Kaia Gerber, Jessica Brown Findlay, Alba Baptista, Isaura Barbé-Brown, with Sian Clifford, and FKA Twigs. Twigs, Jack Antonoff and Charli xcx additionally contributed unique music for the film.
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In a Vogue cowl story printed in July, Hathaway stated she “needed to undergo being a newbie” when it got here to studying tips on how to inhabit the thoughts and physique of a pop star whereas making ready for the film.
“The humility of that — displaying up each day understanding you’re going to suck. And it needs to be okay. You’re not ‘unhealthy.’ You’re only a newbie,” she stated. “Attending to that mindset — I needed to shed some issues that had been exhausting to shed. It was welcome. However it was exhausting, the way in which transformational experiences may be exhausting.”
Deadline first reported that Hathaway and Coel, 38, had been set to star within the film collectively in March 2023. Mom Mary was certainly one of quite a few impartial movies that obtained a waiver from SAG-AFTRA to movie through the 2023 actors’ strike, as IndieWire reported in July of that 12 months.
Hathaway posted a black-and-white photograph of herself from Mom Mary‘s set on Instagram in July 2024 and described the film as “one of the crucial extraordinary, transformative experiences I’ve ever had” in a caption.
Mom Mary is in theaters in April. Hathaway additionally has a number of different high-profile 2026 motion pictures: The Satan Wears Prada 2 (Might 1), The Odyssey (July 17) and Verity (Oct. 2).
