Anne Hathaway opened up about the grueling routine she endured during screen chemistry tests in her early acting jobs.

In a new interview with v magazineThe 41-year-old Oscar-winning actress revealed she was asked to kiss 10 people “in the 2000s” and it “really hurt her.”

Hathaway said, “In the 2000s – and this happened to me too – it was considered normal to ask an actor to make out with other actors to test chemistry, which is actually the worst way to do it.” “

“I was told, ‘We have 10 people coming in today and you’ve been cast. Aren’t you excited to have relationships with all of them?’” she recalled. “And I thought, ‘Can I? Is there something wrong with you?’ Because I wasn’t excited. I thought it looked cheap.”

princess diary The star further said that she was “so young” and “horribly aware of how easy it is to lose everything by being called ‘difficult’.”

Hathaway, who did not reveal the name of the film she screen-tested for, said she “just pretended I was excited and got on with it.”

“It was no power play, no one was trying to misbehave with me or hurt me,” he said. “It was a completely different time and now we know better.”