- The Pitch Perfect actress, 39, shared the worst grade she’s ever received
- The encounter occurred after he was asked to improvise a scene.
- READ MORE: Anna Kendrick reveals creepy moment in Rodney Alcalá’s movie that happened to her in real life
Anna Kendrick has criticized a director for embarrassing her in front of a hundred extras after an improvised scene.
After being asked the worst grade she’s ever received on a shoot, the Pitch Perfect actress, 39, shared her encounter with an anonymous director who belittled her after she was asked to “make something up” and get out of the picture. script.
Recounting the “repulsive” moment in a live recording for the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Anna said the incident felt like a “power move” on her part.
She recalled, “I remember one time a director, in a room full of 100 extras or something, said, ‘Hey, try something on the next one.'” Just make something up. Just improvise something.
“And I did it and then the director called cut and came over and, once again in front of 100 extras, said, ‘Ugh, let’s get back to the script!’
Anna Kendrick criticizes a director for embarrassing her in front of a hundred extras after an improvised scene
The Pitch Perfect actress, 39, shared her encounter with an anonymous director who disparaged her
“It really felt like a very specific power move to embarrass me, to gain dominance. It was very disgusting.
‘And then what I improved ended up in the trailer. So fuck you!’
While Anna did not reveal the director’s name, the live audience gasped when she shared her story about the episode.
Anna has starred in more than 40 films, including Twilight, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and A Simple Favor.
While she’s received her fair share of directors’ notes, she recently made her own directorial debut on the Netflix crime thriller Woman of the Hour.
Written by Ian McDonald, the recently released film is based on the true story of serial killer Rodney Alcalá and his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his killing spree.
The film stars Anna as game show contestant Cheryl Bradshaw and Daniel Zovatto as Alcala, alongside Nicolette Robinson and Tony Hale.
At the time of the show, Alcalá had murdered at least five women, and his appearance in the episode earned him the nickname The Dating Game Killer.
Anna made her own directorial debut earlier this month, with Woman of the Hour.
In a recent interview, Anna revealed that there is a particularly “strange” moment in Woman of the Hour that she experienced in real life when she was just 19 years old.
During an appearance on The View, he said: “There’s a scene at the beginning where I’m in a casting office and I steal little things from my real life.
“There’s a moment where they ask me if I do nudity and they make a really weird, specific comment about my body, which is taken word for word from something that happened to me when I was 19.”
The scene Anna was referring to occurs at the beginning of the film, when her character Cheryl is at a Hollywood casting in 1978.
When Cheryl tells the directors that she’s not comfortable with nudity, one of the men looks directly at her chest and says, “I’m sure they’re fine.”
Confirming that this happened to her two decades ago, Anna added: “I was like, ‘Oh, would you mind saying this?’ And I wasn’t sure about keeping it in the movie, but it’s funny in the movie. We can all laugh at it.” my humiliation, it’s okay, we’re allowed.’