Directed and written by David Lowery (“The Green Knight,” “A Ghost Story”), “Mother Mary” follows Hathaway as a pop star who, after abandoning her tour due to an existential crisis, seeks out an old friend and fashion designer, Sam (Coel), who helped craft her public persona. “Mother Mary” features original songs written by music heavyweights Jack Antonoff, Charli xcx and FKA Twigs, who also appears in the film. … In a Vogue cover story released in July, Hathaway said of her role, “What struck me right away, reading the script, is that you can’t ‘perform’ Mother Mary. If I got the part, I would have to become material David could craft with. … I had to submit to being a beginner. The humility of that — showing up every day knowing you’re going to suck. And it has to be okay. You’re not ‘bad.’ You’re just a beginner. Getting to that mindset — I had to shed some things that were hard to shed. It was welcome. But it was hard, the way transformational experiences can be hard.”-Variety