Anne Hathaway, left, with Kenan Thompson, center, and Tulsa's Bill Hader starred in the "Homeland" parody on "Saturday Night Live." DANA EDELSON/NBC
Anne Hathaway can handle any role.
The actress lost 30 pounds to play a starving prostitute during the French Revolution in the upcoming musical "Les Miserables" and, on last weekend's "Saturday Night Live," she sang her monologue, played a one-expression starlet who married (and divorced) a huge scientologist and acted mad as a hatter in a "Homeland" sketch.
Hathaway, who was the guest host on "SNL," treated fans of Showtime's espionage thriller "Homeland" to a hilarious take on brilliant but unstable CIA agent Carrie Mathison in a sketch. It's the role that won Claire Danes an Emmy Award for her work in the acclaimed pay cable series.
Sporting a blonde wig, the newly-married actress was supported by Tulsa's uber-talented Bill Hader as Middle-East Division Chief Saul Berenson, Kenan Thompson as David, director of the CIA's Countertterrorism Center, and Taran Killam as Nicholas Brody, an American prisoner of war who has gone over to al-Quaeda's side.
On the show, Hathaway, whose film "Les Miserables" debuts Christmas Day, also played Katie Holmes, a McDonald's worker, a cool-girl guest on the "Girlfriends Talk Show" and half of the "American Gothic" couple during her third appearance as host.
"Saturday Night Live" airs at 10:29 p.m. Saturdays on NBC, channel 2, cable 9.
Here's the spot-on "Homeland" sketch followed by video of her musical opening monologue in which she professes a wish to play Stefon – Hader's main character. – and joins the cast to sing an ode to Sundays.
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