Actor and Director Anna Kendrick: Life Imitates Art

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air) has been a fixture in Hollywood for the past fifteen years. She joins us this week to discuss Woman of the Hour, her directorial debut and most revealing project to date.

At the top, we dive into the film’s true crime story (7:00), its examination of gender politics in the 1970s (19:29), and the personal Hollywood experiences Anna embedded into this project (22:00). Then, Kendrick reflects on her early years as a child actor: commuting from Portland, Maine into New York City for work (25:40), receiving a Tony nomination at twelve (29:50), and moving to Los Angeles at seventeen (35:10).

On the back-half, Anna unpacks the “dissociative” process of directing a film (38:25), the mentorship she received from actor and collaborator Jake Johnson (45:00), and the dangers of workaholism (47:19). To close, she shares a passage from her memoir Scrappy Little Nobody (57:20) and describes the work she hopes to make in years to come (1:00:00).

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0:57.0	I'm San Frigoso.
0:59.0	Welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by actor and director Anna Kendrick.
1:17.0	In 1998 at the age of 12, Kendrick made her Broadway debut in the musical High Society.
1:24.0	She received a Tony nomination for that performance
1:27.2	and was determined, as I think anyone would be,
1:29.6	to pursue a life in the arts.
1:31.6	This involved commuting to auditions and rehearsals from her home in
1:35.9	Portland, Maine to New York City, then eventually moving to Los Angeles at the age of 17.
1:42.8	It was that era in the mid-Auts
1:45.0	when Kendrick began to find her footing in Hollywood,
1:48.1	first with memorable supporting roles in films like Twilight,
1:51.8	up in the air, and 50-50. Then she pivots. in She quickly became one of the most promising young actors in the business.
2:04.0	Even now, sitting with her, it's striking how Anna's off-screen personality
2:08.6	reflects her trademarked characters, at times witty, charismatic, and a little bit reserved.
2:15.0	She joins us this week to discuss her latest film and her directorial debut, Woman of the Hour,
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