Anne Hathaway Plans to Play Judy Garland

The Rachel Getting Married star says she’s keen to portray the famed, late actress on the stage.

“I think I’m either naive or insane to play her — maybe a little bit of both!” Hathaway told the New York Daily News newspaper. ”

Hathaway says she plans on getting a little help with her role in the upcoming Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland from Garland’s daughter Liza Minnelli.

“I haven’t had a chance to talk to her about it yet, but I understand that as long as I treat Judy with respect — which of course I will — Liza is very happy about it.”

Hathaway, 26, recently revealed how she’s been stuffing her pants with socks as she prepares for her role in an upcoming New York theater production of Twelfth Night.

“I’m having a fun little time with [character] Cesario right now,” she said. “My character is a girl who’s shipwrecked and she arrives on a strange shore where she doesn’t know anyone, and it occurs to her that the best way to take care of herself is to pretend that she’s a boy.

“I’d be lying if I said that I haven’t walked around my apartment with a sock shoved down the front! All of a sudden, you just understand. You stand differently and it’s just like, yeah!”

Source : Showbizspy