Anne Hathaway reveals she suffered miscarriage while doing for a play on motherhood: ‘I had to give birth onstage every night’

Nolan had previously directed Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises. Sharing how her career ‘didn’t lose momentum’ because Nolan offered her a pivotal role in Interstellar, she said, “I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect. And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.”

During the interview, Hathaway also opened up about another trying moment in her life — a miscarriage she experienced while performing in an off-Broadway play centered on motherhood. Recalling the ordeal of portraying a woman in labor on stage while dealing with her own loss, she shared, “The first time it didn’t work out for me. I was doing a play and I had to give birth onstage every night. It was too much to keep it in when I was onstage pretending everything was fine.”

“I had to keep it real otherwise…So when it did go well for me, having been on the other side of it — where you have to have the grace to be happy for someone — I wanted to let my sisters know, ‘You don’t have to always be graceful. I see you and I’m with you,’” she added.