“I read a lot of articles and watched a lot of documentaries and news clips about sexual slavery. And I came to the realization that I had been thinking about Fantine as someone who lives in the past – but she doesn’t. She’s living in New York City right now. She’s probably less than a block away. Injustice exists in our world and so every day that I was her I just thought, ‘This isn’t an invention, this isn’t me acting; this is me honoring that this pain lives in our world and I hope that in all of our lifetimes – like today – we see it end.”
— Anne Hathaway on preparing for her role in Les Miserables