Anne Hathaway has praised “angel” Christopher Nolan for giving her a role in Interstellar after the public turned on her.

The Devil Wears Prada actress admitted many directors refused to give her roles due to her downturn in popularity around her Oscar win for Les Misérables in 2013 – but Nolan wasn’t one of them.

“A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” Hathaway told Vanity Fair. “I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of.”

Hathaway played NASA scientist Dr. Amelia Brand in Nolan’s 2014 sci-fi Interstellar alongside Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain. She had previously worked with Nolan on 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, in which she played Selina Kyle/Catwoman.

“I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect,” she added. “And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Hathaway admitted humiliation is “such a rough thing to go through” but you have to try and not “let it close you down”.

“You have to stay bold, and it can be hard because you’re like, ‘If I stay safe, if I hug the middle, if I don’t draw too much attention to myself, it won’t hurt.’ But if you want to do that, don’t be an actor,” she stated.

“You’re asking people to invest their time and their money and their attention and their care into you. So you have to give them something worth all of those things. And if it’s not costing you anything, what are you really offering?”

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