Anne Hathaway reveals how Thierry Henry made her fall in love with Arsenal “forever”

Football and cinema are usually closer than it might seem a priori. In a BBC interview with Anne Hathaway y Meryl Streep, On the occasion of the promotion of ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’, the actresses have corroborated this statement. Hathaway has revealed her passion for Arsenalrival of Atlético de Madrid in the Champions League semifinals this Wednesday, April 29.

Such is his love for the London club that he dared to explain to him who made up the team. ‘The Invincibles’. That Arsenal managed to win the Premier League without losing a game led by a player with whom Hathaway fell in love forever.

Anne Hathaway’s love for Arsenal has a culprit: Henry and his companions from ‘The Invincibles’

“There was that team called ‘The Invincibles’. And perhaps the best player of all time, named Thierry Henry, was playing at that time,” he told Meryl Streep, who seemed not to understand very well what he was talking about.

Even so, Anne has continued to relate how her passion for Arsenal was born: “My father was watching that game, and James McAvoy was narrating it for him. My father said: ‘That’s it.’ I’m an Arsenal fan. And once someone in your family declares a team, the whole family… We have a great team, and if anyone is going to make it, it’s going to be these guys.”

In case there was any doubt, before ending the interview, he recited the slogan of Mikel Arteta’s club: “North London Forever. Whatever the weather”. The truth is that the actress has never hidden her love for the London team, as she has uploaded several posts on her social networks in which she can be seen wearing the Arsenal shirt supporting the team.