Anne Hathaway has walked out of a photoshoot with Vanity Fair midway through, in solidarity with the Condé Nast Union walk out.
Almost 400 union members who work at media publisher Condé Nast – which runs brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, Architectural Digest, Wired, Bon Appétit, and of course, Vanity Fair – are holding a 24-hour work stoppage to protest negotiation practices, beginning on Tuesday 8:30 am Eastern Time (Tuesday 11:30 pm AEST).
Hathaway was not aware of the protest when she arrived at the New York City photoshoot in the morning. The star was still in hair and makeup when a staffer from SAG-AFTRA informed her about the protest, after which she promptly walked out.
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“They hadn’t even started taking photos yet,” a source told Variety.
“Once Anne was made aware of what was going on, she just got up from hair and makeup and left.”
Meanwhile, Condé Nast employees were rallying outside the company’s New York offices.
The upheaval began in November 2023 when Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch announced that the company would be laying off over 300 employees and take other cost-reduction measures.
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The layoffs came to attention last week when Anna Wintour, Condé Nast’s chief content officer and global editorial director of Vogue, announced the merging of digital music publication Pitchfork with men’s magazine GQ, which caused a number of employees to lose their jobs, including editor-in-chief Puja Patel.
In a memo to company staff, she wrote: “Today we are evolving our Pitchfork team structure by bringing the team into the GQ organisation.
“This decision was made after a careful evaluation of Pitchfork’s performance and what we believe is the best path forward for the brand so that our coverage of music can continue to thrive within the company.”