Is Anne Hathaway On Her Way to EGOT?
She’s already won an Emmy and an Oscar—could Mother Mary be the key to a Grammy?
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Anne Hathaway has spent her career mastering the craft of acting—method training, script analysis, the whole disciplined apparatus. So naturally, when director David Lowery cast her as a comeback-era pop star in his film Mother Mary, she approached the role the same way: by essentially unlearning everything that made her exceptional at acting.
The film required actual songs, so Lowery tapped Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX (herself mid-actor pivot) to architect the soundtrack. Their seven-track album, Mother Mary: Greatest Hits, channels dark club energy wrapped in spiritual-profane lyrics—indistinguishable from work by established artists because, well, it was written by them. FKA Twigs contributed a track too. Hathaway sings lead on every song, credited as the artist, and she's genuinely compelling. Not a gimmick. Not a celebrity vanity project.
Unlearning the Type A
Here's where it gets interesting: Hathaway told Harper's Bazaar she'd decided against pop stardom as a teenager, assessing her own voice as "fine" but not star-level. Yet she trained relentlessly with Antonoff to find her "pop star vibe"—which meant dismantling the projection-heavy, onstage-trained vocal technique that defined her theater roots. "Pop music is effortless power," she explained to The New York Times. "That's not really my thing. I'm all about effort." She had to rewire her entire approach, surrendering the controlled intensity that built her reputation for perfection.
Her influences—Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Björk, Beyoncé—signal what she was chasing: theatricality, vulnerability, unflinching experimentation. The Tori Amos DNA bleeds through tracks like "Holy Spirit 2." She didn't just phone it in; she became the character, which is what Hathaway does, according to Harper's Bazaar.
The real question: Will the Recording Academy notice? She was shockingly shut out for a Grammy nod after "I Dreamed a Dream" in Les Misérables—the same role that won her an Oscar. She has an Emmy from a Simpsons cameo. One Grammy would lock in EGOT status, a crown that doesn't require a Tony if the math already works. Whether the music industry takes her seriously or treats this as a one-off remains to be seen, but Hathaway's already proven she can commit harder than anyone else in the room.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
