Much of the acting praise for Interstellar has gone to Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain, understandable considering they get the meatiest roles in the film and give two highly charged performances. Anne Hathaway's Amelia Brand, on the other hand, feels like something of a side act in Cooper's story, at least until her final coup de grace of kickstarting a new human colony on Edmunds's planet. But Hathaway is, regardless, one of the best performers on show, convincingly making Amelia a strong, intelligent and flawed human being. The scene in which Amelia reveals that her feelings for Wolf Edmunds may have swayed her decision-making could have come across as hokey and unbelievable - we're talking about a scientist declaring that "love is the only thing that transcends time and space," after all. But Hathaway sells it: the anguish and frustration Amelia feels at the prospect of probably never seeing Wolf again is clear in those big expressive eyes of Hathaway's. The actress is good enough to warrant her character her own film - a sequel, perhaps?
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