--- description: The actress flips off her competition while recreating the video title: Anne Hathaway Lip Syncs to Miley Cyrus' 'Wrecking Ball' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Anne Hathaway Lip-Sync to Miley Cyrus' 'Wrecking Ball'  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 6, 2015 6:25 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 6, 2015 6:25 PM CUT No, you are not dreaming a dream: that really is Anne Hathaway riding a wrecking ball and lip-syncing along to Miley Cyrus’ 2013 hit. The Oscar-winning actress shows her commitment to her most unexpected role yet by slicking back her hair, sporting Cyrus’ white tank top and red lip stick and getting freaky with construction equipment on Spike TV’s _Lip Sync Battle_, airing Thursdays. (Tear-away pants even make a cameo.) Now, some of that behavior might not be becoming of a [princess of Genovia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FPrincess%5FDiaries%5F%28film%29 "undefined"), but judging by the middle finger Hathaway flashes halfway through — it’s ostensibly directed at her competitor, Emily Blunt, but it could also double as a message to her haters — she doesn’t really care. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3772802/anne-hathaway-wrecking-ball-lip-sync/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3772802/anne-hathaway-wrecking-ball-lip-sync/"},"headline":"Watch Anne Hathaway Lip-Sync to Miley Cyrus' 'Wrecking Ball'","datePublished":"2015-04-06T18:25:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:44:06.098Z","description":"The actress flips off her competition while recreating the video","url":"https://time.com/3772802/anne-hathaway-wrecking-ball-lip-sync/","keywords":["celebrities","Music","Miley Cyrus","anne hathaway","lip sync battle"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3772802/anne-hathaway-wrecking-ball-lip-sync/","name":"Watch Anne Hathaway Lip-Sync to Miley Cyrus' 'Wrecking Ball'"}}]}] ```