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Watch: Anne Hathaway Takes Matt Lauer to Task for Pervy Questions

Watch: Anne Hathaway Takes Matt Lauer to Task for Pervy Questions

As anyone with a computer, television or handheld device likely knows Best Supporting Actress frontrunner for virtually all of the awards this season for her Fantine Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway was snapped unwittingly climbing out of a limo with no panties on by a pervy paparazzo. Well, Today’s respected “journalist” Matt Lauer appeared positively gleeful – like a 12-year-old who’d just spied his best friend’s older sister’s side boob – in asking Anne about her ‘wardrobe malfunction’ in an interview, and she laid him out it.

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As anyone with a computer, television or handheld device likely knows Best Supporting Actress frontrunner for virtually all of the awards this season for her Fantine Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway was snapped unwittingly climbing out of a limo with no panties on by a pervy paparazzo. Well, Today’s respected “journalist” Matt Lauer appeared positively gleeful – like a 12-year-old who’d just spied his best friend’s older sister’s side boob – in asking Anne about her ‘wardrobe malfunction’ in an interview, and she laid him out it.

“We’ve seen a lot of you lately,” Matt said, practically giggling. Attempting to rebuff the nod to her aired out lady bits Anne smiled tightly and said she apologized for that. But once was not enough for Matt, who forged on and asked what one learns from the experience of having her crotch photographed and then sold to an agency for god-knows-how-much.

“It kind of made me sad on two accounts. One was that I was very sad that we live in age when someone takes a picture of a person in a vulnerable moment, and rather than delete it and do the decent thing, sells it,” Anne said. “And I’m sorry that we live in a culture that commodifies sexuality of unwilling participants, which brings us back to Les Mis, because that’s who my character is…”

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Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.