Much of the current generation knows Hugh Dancy from “Law and Order,” where he plays Nolan Price, the Manhattan District Attorney. However, Dancy (Claire Danes’ husband) also once played Anne Hathaway’s prince in “Ella Enchanted,” a modern fairytale centering on a cursed princess. According to Fandom, Dancy played Prince Charmont, a humble royal who appreciated how unimpressed Hathaway’s character was in him. At the time, Dancy was 29, playing opposite Hathaway, who’s eight years younger. And though he’d already proved his worth within the drama genre, he wasn’t against joining a fairytale. “I enjoyed doing something that was going to be light-hearted,” shared Dancy with The Eagle Online in 2004. “We were never really thinking, “OK, this is for kids.’ On the whole, we were just trying to make it fun.”
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Dancy enjoyed the offscreen antics as well. According to Hathaway’s 2004 Black Film interview they bonded through “lots of late-night drinking sessions.” She also opened up about their leisure activities in an interview with Live About. “It’s impossible to completely match Hugh drink for drink, the guy can go, but I definitely developed a taste for Guinness when I was there, which was unusual for me. But I figure when in Rome – or Ireland,” revealed Hathaway when questioned about their “drinking spree in Ireland.” However, they also found common ground through “old films, a lot of Katherine Hepburn Spencer Tracy films” and ‘Roman Holiday'” (via Black Films).
