Sometimes, haters are just going to hate, whether they have an actual reason or not. Anne Hathaway can certainly tell you a thing or two about it.

During a press junket for her upcoming movie, Colossal, the actress opened up about that time when everyone and their grandmother seemed to hate her. She was at the top of her game, having just won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her role in Les Miserables, but for some reason, many people just weren’t feeling her. She told Jezebel that she was aware of it, but has taken it in stride. She said:

“It’s not that I’ve gotten a rhino skin to it, but I sort of see all of that for what it is. … How the world feels about me has nothing to do with me. How other people treat me has nothing to do with me. But if anything that anybody said resonated with me as something I’d like to work on for myself, I took it in like that. And to that extent, I feel like I got to shortcut a lot of my growth. To that extent, even though I wouldn’t have chosen to go through it, I still found a way to be grateful to it.”

Though she has moved on from that chapter, she is still reticent when it comes to putting herself out there for scrutiny, and therefore tends to shy away from social media. She told Jezebel that she recently posted a picture of her son for the first time and regretted it almost immediately. She said:

“I decided to post a shot of the back of his head, and almost as soon as I’d done it, I wished that I hadn’t. I felt like I had broken some kind of a seal in inviting people into my life.”

Interestingly, in her new film, Colossal, Anne plays an internet writer. She explained, “I thought it could be a positive overlap given my history with that aspect of her life. … It resonated on several levels.”

Colossal hits theaters this Friday, April 7.