Anne Hathaway has starred in plenty of romantic dramas and comedies that have a love interest as a minor plot point. (Andy should have never kept that guy around in The Devil Wears Prada.) But she hasn't really gone full rom-com with a role—until now, and she totally nailed it.
On The Late Late Show, she and host James Corden performed an entire rom-com in five minutes, in just one take. And they sang the entire time, going all the way from "Holding Out for a Hero" to "Kiss Me." Then the relationship goes south, and Hathaway expertly drunk-slurs "All By Myself," before the rom-com couple has a Ross and Rachel from Friends moment during "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Let's Stay Together."
Watch the full rom-com below:
This wasn't the first time Corden has put on impromptu musicals—it's kind of his thing. He often relies on Anna Kendrick to be his scene partner. Here's their Soundtrack to a Love Story:
And here's their Soundtrack to Growing Up, with help from Billy Eichner:
The last time Hathaway stopped by, their relationship was a little more contentious. In a rap battle, she hit him where it hurts—his IMDB page.
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Megan Friedman is the former managing editor of the Newsroom at Hearst. She's worked at NBC and Time, and is a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.
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