Actress Anne Hathaway reveals she'd sooner read Einstein than fashion pages

She is the Hollywood superstar who has instant chemistry on screen – but Anne Hathaway has admitted she actually prefers physics.

The actress is obsessed with the subject and is ‘dying for someone to explain quarks [fundamental matter particles]’ to her. Miss Hathaway, 27, who starred in The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada, spends her spare time reading physics textbooks rather than fashion pages.She said: ‘I’m interested in elementary particles. What I like thinking about is how time and space exist in the universe and how we understand it.