{"id":254290,"date":"2026-07-29T01:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/elon-musk-calls-anne-hathaway-a-marionette-for-2018-speech-supporting-gay-and-trans-rights\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:08:36","slug":"elon-musk-calls-anne-hathaway-a-marionette-for-2018-speech-supporting-gay-and-trans-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/elon-musk-calls-anne-hathaway-a-marionette-for-2018-speech-supporting-gay-and-trans-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Calls Anne Hathaway a \u2018Marionette\u2019 for 2018 Speech Supporting Gay and Trans Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong><\/a> is criticizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/anne-hathaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anne Hathaway<\/strong><\/a> for a 2018 speech she gave in support of the gay and trans community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s just a marionette. Whoever wrote her speech is the real douchebag,\u201d Musk, 55, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2081423267902996964?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote via X<\/a> on Sunday, July 26, in response to marketing professor <strong>Gad Saad<\/strong>\u2019s brutal critique of Hathaway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yozqpDzuk1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speaking<\/a> at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington, D.C., nearly eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Odyssey<\/em> star, 43, appeared at the September 2018 event to accept the organization\u2019s National Ally for Equality award, speaking to the crowd about her societal role and greater surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the exception of being a cisgender male, everything about how I was born has put me at the current center of a damaging and widely accepted myth,\u201d Hathaway said at the time. \u201cThat myth is that gayness orbits around straitness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness. And it is a myth that keeps money and power in the hands of the few, instead of being invested in the lives of the free.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/billie-eilish-calls-elon-musk-a-coward-as-hes-set-to-become-trillionaire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/billie-eilish-calls-elon-musk-a-coward-as-hes-set-to-become-trillionaire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Elon Musk Claps Back After Billie Eilish Called Him a &#8216;Bitch Coward&#8217;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUPDATE: 11\/19\/2025 at 10:15 a.m. ET \u2014 Elon Musk\u00a0has fired back at Billie Eilish\u00a0after the singer called the potential trillionaire a \u201cpathetic p**** bitch coward.\u201d \u201cShe\u2019s not the sharpest tool in the shed,\u201d Musk, 54, wrote via X on Monday, November 17, while replying to a post recapping Eilish\u2019s recent Instagram Stories about how the [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hathaway\u2019s speech began with acknowledgment over how she viewed the world at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty shellshocked by what I see every day, by what I hear every day. And I really don\u2019t like to admit this but I get scared,\u201d she told the crowd before advocating for equality. \u201cI am just living the values my parents gave me. I\u2019m loving you the way you deserve and yes, I am giving major side eye to anyone that thinks differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4390400\" style=\"width: 3000px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4390400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2217854516-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=2400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Elon Musk<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI know I\u2019m speaking in abstractions, and that there\u2019s privilege embedded in my ability to do so. I know that there are very real obstacles that block the path to true equality, and I know that removing them is easier said than done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hathaway added that her hope for a clear path to equality is being met by the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that myths are destroyed by the same thing that creates them: a community,\u201d she explained, to near-immediate applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>In the X critique of Hathaway\u2019s speech, created by Saad, 61, and captioned with the text \u201cAnne Hathaway is a Degenerate Narcissist,\u201d the actress\u2019 delivery is labeled as \u201cself importance,\u201d and smug, while her \u201cevery conceivable syllable\u201d is slammed as \u201cwrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4390402\" style=\"width: 1428px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:140%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4390402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286414814-Elon-Musk-Calls-Anne-Hathaway-a-Marionette.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Anne Hathaway<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Cindy Ord\/Getty Images for SiriusXM<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In another Sunday X post from Musk that addressed Hathaway\u2019s speech, he reiterated that Hathaway was \u201cjust reading the script someone else wrote,\u201d while arguing that \u201cno critical thinking\u201d had been used to write the speech. (Musk, the world\u2019s first trillionaire, has a long history of sharing anti-trans sentiments and beliefs. The SpaceX founder, who has 14 children with four different women, is dad to an openly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/elon-musk-and-daughter-vivian-wilson-relationship-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trans daughter<\/a>, <strong>Vivian Jenna Wilson<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s posts, shared via the social media platform he purchased as Twitter in 2022, comes after the businessman recently made multiple public jabs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-odyssey-everything-to-know-about-the-films-cast-plot-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Odyssey<\/em><\/a>, in which Hathaway portrays the ancient Greek mythological figure Queen Penelope.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has publicly argued that the film, created by director <strong>Christopher Nolan<\/strong>, does not present an historically accurate reflection due to diverse casting choices such as <strong>Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/strong> as Helen of Troy and <strong>Elliot Page<\/strong> as the Greek warrior Sinon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/elon-musk-calls-anne-hathaway-marionette-after-trans-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is criticizing Anne Hathaway for a 2018 speech she gave in support of the gay and trans community. \u201cShe\u2019s just a marionette. Whoever wrote her speech is the real douchebag,\u201d Musk, 55, wrote via X on Sunday, July 26, in response to marketing professor Gad Saad\u2019s brutal critique of Hathaway speaking at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}