Hathaway stuffs her pants to play a man

Anne has been stuffing her pants to better understand how to portray a man.

London, June 03: Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway has been stuffing her pants with socks to better understand how to portray a man for an upcoming New York theatre production of Shakespeare`s "Twelfth Night".

The "Devil Wears Prada" star is due to take to the stage as part of the Big Apple`s Shakespeare in the Park series, which kicks off later this month, reports contactmusic.com. She admits she`s been preparing for her role as Viola, a girl who disguises herself as a man called Cesario, by strutting around her Manhattan apartment with an extra prop in her trousers. "I`m having a fun little time with Cesario right now. 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," she said. "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," she added. IANS