Just to clear up any confusion over whether or not you thought Anne Hathaway was Rihanna, Anne Hathaway has very helpfully stated, in a Harper’s Bazaar interview, that she is not Rihanna. “I’m not Rihanna,” she stated, in plain English, to clear up any confusion, on the matter.

Of course, Hathaway was also trying to explain that people simply don’t find her cool, like Rihanna. Or sexy. Like Rihanna. “I'm not Rihanna...I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug not a photo, and they want that because they like my work...I had no grit, no sex appeal,” she told the magazine and said that the public’s perception of her is “very vanilla, very sweet, very accessible and not interesting.” Well, you know, we reckon the fact that she’s very likely to be nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Les Miserables is pretty interesting, but there you go.

The interview, republished by Entertainmentwise.com shows Hathaway in humble mode, though she’s looking pretty stylish in her photo-shoot for the magazine, gracing the cover in a strapless black dress. She might not be Rihanna, but why be Rihanna when you can be Anne Hathaway? Those Oscars announcements are due on January 10; our money’s on Hathaway getting a nod.