New York, July 14 : Actress Anne Hathaway reveals she was in tears after she chopped off her long brown locks to get a pixie cut for her role in "Les Miserables".

"I wasn't expecting it to be such a big deal, because it was my idea. It was something I've wanted to do for a long time, and I knew it was something the character did, so I just offered it to the director and he said 'Yes'. As it got closer, I thought: 'I can't really take it back now'," people.com quoted her as saying.

The 30-year-old said she was reduced to tears after the hair cut.

"I've now done back-flips out of windows, I've jumped off buildings and cutting my hair reduced me to, like, mental patient-level crying," she said.

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