Anne Hathaway reminisced about a bizarre audition experience that left her feeling uncomfortable as she shared that at a particular casting session, she was tasked to kiss ten different individuals.

While conversing with V magazine, the One Day star mentioned that in the early 2000’s it was “normal” to ask actors to make out with potential co-stars during chemistry tests.

She shared, “Which is actually the worst way to do it,” adding, “I was told, ‘We have ten guys coming today and you’re cast. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ because I wasn’t excited. I thought it sounded gross.”

Hathaway added, “And I was so young and terribly aware how easy it was to lose everything by being labeled ‘difficult,’ so I just pretended I was excited and got on with it. It wasn’t a power play, no one was trying to be awful or hurt me. It was just a very different time and now we know better.”

In her role as a producer for The Idea of You, she took part in the casting process to select her on-screen romantic partner, ultimately choosing Nicholas Galitzine.

Hathaway noted that the approach for the chemistry test was unconventional.

“We asked each of the actors coming in to choose a song that they felt their character would love, that they would put on to get my character to dance, and then we’d do a short little improv. I was sitting in a chair like we had come in from dinner or a walk or something, we pressed play, and we just started dancing together,” she said.