‘Les Miserables’ stars at New York premiere

DHAKA: All eyes were on Anne Hathaway as she arrived at the New York preimiere of ‘Les Miserables’ held at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Monday.

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ star, who recently walked down the aisle with her long-time boyfriend, actor and jewellery designer Adam Shulman, wore a black taffeta cape-back Tom Ford Spring 2013 dress with a thigh-high slit.

She wore knee-high bondage-style Tom Ford boots, Fred Leighton jewels and wound up her looks with dark red lips, reports btimes.co.uk.

‘Les Miserables’ is based on the musical with the same title by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer, which in turn was an adaptation of the 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo.

The film has Hugh Jackman (Jean Valjean) as an ex-prisoner and Russell Crowe (Javert) as the policeman.

The 30-year-old American actress lost 25 pounds to play the role of Fantine, a starving, tuberculosis-affected prostitute.

She cut her beautiful tresses and sported a famished physique which she joked she achieved by subsisting largely on a diet of ‘kale and dust’.

According to her November Vogue profile, she ‘remains very thin, though not unhealthy-looking’.

‘I had to be obsessive about it, the idea was to look near death,’ Hathaway said of the dieting.

‘Looking back on the whole experience, and I don’t judge it in any way, it was definitely a little nuts. It was definitely a break with reality, but I think that’s who Fantine is anyway.’

BDST: 2012 HRS, DEC 11, 2012
Edited by Robab Rosan, Cultural Affairs Editor, eic@banglanews24.com