Up in the Air's Anna Kendrick on Getting Hired, Not Fired
The Marc Pease Experience (2009)
You've had some big successes since Rocket Science, but The Marc Pease Experience got a little lost after Paramount shuttered its Vantage division. What can you tell me about it?
I auditioned for that film right after Rocket Science came out at Sundance, and that was a little more of a process because it was a film with Jason Schwartzman and Ben Stiller and I wasn't anybody. [Laughs] I had to go in and read a few times.
Was it disappointing to you that the film got such a bare-bones release? I know the director, Todd Louiso, was pretty upset about it.
It's always disappointing when a film like that doesn't work out. The script was great, and so many people in the industry have come up to me and said, "The script was so great, what happened?" I don't know. I guess that's part of the mystery of filmmaking.
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She was amazingly hilarious in Camp.
I'm proud to be gay enough to have loved Camp and to be able to sing the entire "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" song she's performing in that first picture after the jump.
She's fancy.
What a lovely woman. She's absolutely brilliant in Up In The Air, which is a terrific film in itself.
Thank you for the best interview of Anna Kendrick for fans anyone has done in years. Way more than just the standard Twilight and Up in the Air questions of other interviews. And, unlike other interviewers, Kyle Buchanan clearly knows Anna Kendrick was an experienced and talented pro before those two movies (although she's great in them, too).
That 1998 picture of little Anna in curls is not from High Society. It's from the "My Favorite Broadway" special that year (later on PBS), when she sang "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" from Showboat, backed by dancers from the then-revival production of Cabaret.
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Without question, Anna is my favorite new artist, and this interview only confirms my appreciation. Talented, beautiful, gracious and smart, it's hard to imagine a more deserving person. A superb interview.
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