Anne Hathaway teases her next fashion mishap is inevitable at The Odyssey world premiere

Anne Hathaway is out promoting The Odyssey, and somewhere between screenings and step-and-repeats she basically shrugged off the kind of wardrobe hiccup that would send most people sprinting for a cloak. Yes, the woman who once starred in The Devil Wears Prada is still human. And honestly, her response makes the whole thing better.

The red jumpsuit moment (and why she is not sweating it )

In the last days of June 2026, Hathaway hit New York in a cherry red peplum jumpsuit from Ashlyn's Spring collection. Sharp-eyed fashion people noticed it was on backward: the runway version puts a high neckline in front, and she wore the scooped side forward. Instead of ducking the chatter, she leaned right in, cutting a playful Instagram video together with headlines calling out the flip. It read like: saw it, got the joke, moving on.

Her take, straight from the press tour

While doing The Odyssey promo, she was asked about the mix-up in a recent Entertainment Tonight interview ( ET posted the clip on July 6, 2026). No crisis energy, just perspective and a little self-aware humor.

"You have to grow into that."

"It's me, so there's plenty more of that where that came from."

Translation: fashion fun is part of the package, and she is not about to apologize for it.

Meanwhile, her Penelope is not here to be quiet

Christopher Nolan 's The Odyssey puts Hathaway in full command as Penelope, Queen of Ithaca, opposite Matt Damon as Odysseus. This take leans on Emily Wilson's acclaimed translation, which treats Penelope as Odysseus's intellectual match, not a passive placeholder. Hathaway has described her as someone whose calm is a cover for a steady burn — a strategist managing a rotten palace without losing her grip.

She is not crushed by nearly twenty years of waiting. Instead, she channels controlled fury and actively outplays more than a hundred pushy suitors, led by Robert Pattinson 's calculating Antinous. Even her costumes make a point: bright, defiant colors, no mourning black, because she refuses to concede that Odysseus is gone. Damon handles the sea-monster odyssey part of the odyssey, but the film 's heart is the Penelope–Telemachus dynamic, with Tom Holland as the son trying to grow up under siege.

• Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Queen of Ithaca
• Matt Damon as Odysseus
• Robert Pattinson as Antinous, the chief suitor
• Tom Holland as Telemachus

So yes, a backwards jumpsuit grabbed a headline. But the bigger story is Hathaway stepping into a version of Penelope that is all spine and strategy. If she wants to keep stirring in a little fashion chaos on the side, that just makes the press tour less boring.