Peak Anne

Anne Hathaway has given me a reading assignment. It’s a letter the soccer player Gabriel Jesus, who plays for Arsenal, published in December in the Players’ Tribune about his recovery from a devastating ACL injury that sidelined him for most of the year. Jesus writes about how fatherhood and being in the moment with his young children helped him get through the brutally long rehabilitation process and how he has come out on the other side feeling stronger and more grateful than he ever could have imagined. Hathaway and her family are big Arsenal fans. (She played soccer growing up.) The letter was passed around in their group chat, and she wants me to read it before we speak. There’s something about the notion of being able to embrace all of life’s thorniness and letting it inform, or even enhance, what you do that has deeply resonated with her.