David Lowery made a ghost story about a pop star, a dress and a broken friendship, cast Anne Hathaway as a stadium-sized icon and then drained most of the light out of the room. The bath scene is the one people pause, and then squint at.
What happens in the bath
Hathaway plays Mother Mary, a world-famous singer preparing a comeback after an onstage accident, who runs to the English countryside to ask her estranged collaborator and former lover, the designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), for one last dress. Something has followed her there. The film calls it a ghost. It looks a lot like red fabric and old grief.
In the clip, Mary lies in a white tub wearing an eye mask while Sam stands over her. She scrubs her face, lifts a hand out of the water, and then the water floods red. Next she’s out of the tub, a pale shape crawling across a black floor, and finally running down a dark corridor, wide-eyed. Common Sense Media calls it non-sexual nudity, seen mostly from behind with the rest lost in shadow, and that’s exactly right.
It isn’t erotic and isn’t trying to be. It’s the most striking image in an A24 film that grossed about $3 million, and the newest entry in all of Anne Hathaway’s on-screen nudity, ranked. Eighteen years earlier she did a very different bath scene in Rachel Getting Married.
Film: Mother Mary (2026) · A24 · released April 17, 2026 · written and directed by David Lowery · Anne Hathaway as Mother Mary, Michaela Coel as Sam Anselm
Also in the cast: Hunter Schafer as Sam’s assistant Hilda, plus FKA Twigs, Kaia Gerber and Sian Clifford.
All Anne Hathaway scenes
1Bedroom Scene Love & Other Drugs (2010)- 2Red Sheets Love & Other Drugs (2010)
- 3Back Seat Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- 4First Hookup Love & Other Drugs (2010)
- 5Now watchingThe Bath Mother Mary (2026)
- 6Sister’s Bath Rachel Getting Married (2008)
- 7Hotel Confession The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
- 8Hotel Room (no nudity) The Idea of You (2024)
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