Anne Hathaway Performs Intense 'Wrecking Ball' Routine for 'Lip Sync Battle' Against Emily Blunt (VIDEO)
Anne Hathaway brought studio audiences cheering to their feet with her fierce performance of Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" during a "Lip Sync Battle" preview that went viral overnight.
Oscar winner Anne Hathaway is due to appear on the Spike channel's "Lip Sync Battle" versus Emily Blunt, and the preview of her Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" routine now has over six million views on YouTube.
While classically trained Hathaway may be one of the more serious actresses in Hollywood, her passionate presentation of Miley Cyrus' oft-parodied hit, "Wrecking Ball" has silenced her critics and shaken up audiences overnight with her over-the-top gestures and dramatic facial expressions which were strikingly identical to Cyrus' from the actual music video.
Her routine, which pits her against "Into the Woods" English actress, Emily Blunt has her leaping athletically onstage at the beginning of the song. Pantomiming the lyrics, Hathaway's performance includes a costume change where she emerges wearing only her underwear.
Dressed only in her white skivvy ensemble, she makes a running jump unto an actual wrecking ball in a previously unlighted portion of the stage, and swings wildly to the beat of the music, still lip syncing, as the audience claps and cheers her on.
She also takes the time to lean back across the ball and flash her middle finger at Blunt sitting at the sidelines behind, taking their television competition up a notch since they first clashed on-screen in 2006's "The Devil Wears Prada."
Whether Blunt stands a chance against Hathaway's impassioned performance and perfect mouthing of the song's lyrics is still open to question, and will finally be decided when the on-screen competitors' episode airs on Spike on April 9, Thursday at 10 p.m. ET.
