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Anne Hathaway attends the 20th anniversary of The Gotham Independent Film awards in New York on Monday.
updated 11/30/2010 10:11:02 AM ET 2010-11-30T15:11:02

Anne Hathaway says hosting the Oscars this year with James Franco will be "a challenge," but she is up for it.

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"It seems like an incredibly cool and exhilarating thing to do," she tells the New York Post.

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Still, she can't help but fret when thinking about it.

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"I found out that I'm one of three women to host since ... I think it was 1987," she tells Entertainment Tonight. "Maybe I'm the fourth, I'm not sure. I'm still learning all the amazing statistics that I almost don't want to know because it gets a little bit too intimidating."

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