We thought Anne Hathaway peaked as a princess—and we were wrong. We assumed Debra Winger’s success on film ended in the mid-’80s—strike two. We knew Rosemary DeWitt only as the bohemian lover of Don Draper in Mad Men—now we know better. Jenny Lumet had never written a screenplay, but took some time off from teaching Grade 8 English to hammer out Rachel Getting Married and then somehow nailed down Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) to direct her debut. Certainly it helped that her father, Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon), handed the project to Demme, but we still applaud her and this cast of unlikelies for making a film that is already garnering Oscar buzz. Highlights (including Hathaway using the F-word) from the media roundtable with Winger, Demme and Hathaway, after the jump.
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