Anne Hathaway also revealed her family’s Halloween plans and what her older son thinks she does for a living on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday
Almost 11 months after welcoming her son Jack, mother of two, Anne Hathaway is considering adding to her family once more, but she’s not completely sold on the idea.
The actress opened up about her new movie The Witches and her family of four (which also includes husband Adam Shulman and their older son Jonathan Rosebanks, 4½) on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night, touching on her sons’ J names after Kimmel pointed out the alliteration.
Are you angling for me to go for a third and name him Jimmy?” Hathaway, 37, joked after the host told her he and his siblings also all have J names.
In all seriousness “I don’t know,” she said of having another child. “The world is really scary. Some minutes, I’m like, ‘Yes, absolutely,’ and some minutes, the world scares me too much, and I think I’ve got two healthy ones, and that feels really great. So I don’t really know yet.”
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In the meantime, the Oscar winner is balancing her career with family life, which includes teaming up with Shulman, 39, to keep a little white lie going with Jonathan in terms of what he thinks his mom does for work
“He knows that Mommy goes to work,” Hathaway said. “I recently left to go to do a project and we were getting him ready ’cause I was going to be gone for a little bit and I was like, ‘Okay, so, Mommy’s going to work.’ And he stopped and he looked me really deep in the eyes and he’s like, ‘Mommy, are you going to work at the library?’ “
She added after Kimmel, 52, asked why he thought that, “Your guess is as good as mine! We went with it, and I was like, ‘Yes… yes. Mommy’s going to work at the library.’ So he thinks I’m a librarian, which is a form of storytelling, so we’re just kind of going with that until further notice.”
As for whether Jonathan has seen his mom’s movies and recognizes her, “I wasn’t sure where we were at with that because we showed him Rio recently and he didn’t notice that one of the birds sounded like me,” she said.
With Halloween fast approaching, the Ella Enchanted actress and her brood have a “socially distanced plan… [with a] small group of people.” And yes, they will be in costume!
“Jonathan loves the movie Cars, so Adam is going to dress up as Doc Hudson; Jonathan’s going to be Lightning McQueen,” Hathaway said. “And Jack just climbs on everything, so he’s going to be a monkey, and I figure I’m going to hold him the entire time, so I’m going to be a tree.”
And instead of traditional trick-or-treating, “We’re going to hide candy in the backyard,” she shared.