Up in the Air's Anna Kendrick on Getting Hired, Not Fired
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and beyond...
Your next film coming up is Edgar Wright's action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, where you play Michael Cera's sister. Like Twilight, that's a cast filled with up-and-coming young actors. Did you know many of them before you started shooting?
Not really -- I knew Mae Whitman a little, and Aubrey Plaza and I hung out a little bit because we'd met at the Christmas party. The thing I can say that I love most about that cast is how completely un-self-aware and funny all the girls are. They definitely could have just gotten a bunch of little starlets to play all these characters. Because it's a comic book adaptation, they could have gotten a bunch of hot girls with no talent, but every single girl is so on point and so funny.
Speaking of self-awareness, you're about to navigate a lot of awards and events for this film. Are you ready for that? Do you feel you have to put on a suit of armor and march through?
A little bit. It's strange -- even doing interviews, I feel really strange about giving up so much of the stories and moments that used to be mine. They're not mine anymore, they belong to everybody else now. I don't know if that sounds really melodramatic, but I care about these films so much that it's strange to talk about it and worry that you're coming off as disingenuous. I'm trying to stay focused and say what I mean, and it's hard. The last thing I want to do is give mechanical answers about a film that I really, really love and I'm really proud of.
[Lead Photo Credit: Jeff Vespa/WireImage, Screen Captures: Anna-Kendrick.net]
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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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