The actress responded: “Call me Annie! Everybody, everybody, call me Annie – please!”
She explained that she began going by Anne professionally at 14 as she needed a Screen Actors Guild membership card.
At this time, Hathaway had no idea how successful she would become and that people would begin to constantly refer to her by her birth name and not her preferred nickname.
“They asked me, ‘What do you want your name to be?’ And I’m like, well, it should be my name. My name’s Anne Hathaway,” the actress recalled.