What was Anne Hathaway going to say about her hips??

Here’s an excerpt from a New York Times magazine interview with Anne Hathaway where things seemed to get weird almost immediately (slightly edited for streamlining purposes):

My character, Solène, might not seem like the most complicated character I’ve ever played. There’s no accent, there’s no particular gait—I love a character’s gait. But she felt familiar.

My vote for best Anne Hathaway character gait in a movie: “The Dark Knight Rises.” So much swagger! I worked with a choreographer for three weeks to find that swagger.

Really? Yes, I did. Because—oh, this is going to sound like a weird sentence—I wasn’t connected enough to my hips. I kept imagining a cat’s movement and the way it’s fluid and swishy but also strong and purposeful, and they helped me find my hips.

You need to introduce me to that choreographer, because not being connected enough to my hips describes most of my life problems. We are going to follow up, because I have so many thoughts! I didn’t feel connected to my body early in my life. It was this weird thing.

As a fellow student of hip-connection struggles, a comrade in body awareness arms, my ears—eyes?—immediately perked up. Not just because Anne Hathaway copped to working quite hard for her connection to her hips, but because the interviewer, David Marchese, readily admitted he struggled with this very issue. David Marchese, Anne Hathaway, me—we’re all invested! We’re in the car, our bags are packed, our seat belts are buckled, Google Maps is set to Destination: Hips, nothing but the open ro—

Why weren’t you connected to your body? That’s a great question. I mean, it would take me 41 years to answer that. It’s so many things, but I think it’s just assumed that we have a relationship with our body. Like you: Something you know about yourself is that you do not have a relationship with your hips.

Not a good one. But if somebody said, here’s a path for you to have one, what would you do?

Oh, boy. I don’t know how to answer that. Let’s move on. Sure. Where are we going? We’re going to the knees or the torso?

I want to go back to the people-pleaser line.

German Shepherd head-tilt. Huh? Aroo?

The interview meanders away from this subject. And then—