Anne Hathaway opened up in a new Vogue cover story about the making of “Mother Mary,” the upcoming A24 music drama from director David Lowery. Co-starring Michaela Coel, the film stars Hathaway as a pop diva who flees her tour during an existential crisis and seeks out the old friend who helped craft her public

Anne Hathaway is a master at her craft, but that doesn’t mean it always comes easy. In an interview for the August issue of Vogue, Hathaway detailed the work that went into preparing for her starring role in the upcoming melodrama Mother Mary.

The Oscar winner offers details about the film, which delivered the most challenging role of Hathaway’s career during a shoot in Germany where people may have gone “temporarily, mildly insane.”