Anna Kendrick says making movies has distracted her from movies as entertainment because she watches them with the production always in mind.
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Know how a magician does his Things spoils the deal for audiences who want to suspend their disbelief in the magic of the show. The same goes for insiders in any industry, and gaming is no exception, like Anna Kendrick discussed in a recent interview with the First We Feast YouTube podcast. She told host Sean Evans: “I think when you start making movies, there’s a period where they kind of get ruined for you, because all you think about is behind the scenes and how whose sausage is made of all this…”
While eating the hottest of spicy wings, Anna Kendrick went on to explain that while watching any movie, there was dialogue going on in her head that was critical of how the movie was made. She went on to say, “So when a movie is really bad, it’s so much worse, because I can see like, ‘Why that choice? It would have been so easy to do this or whatever. And when it’s good, there’s more to the running script than “I’m immersed and that’s great.”
While that means Anna Kendrick knows a lot of the behind-the-scenes tricks magicians who make movies use, it also gave her an appreciation for the hard work it takes to make one. Moviegoers might need to be bribed with post-credits scenes to watch a movie’s credits, but anyone who watches the 5-10 minute name list knows there are hundreds of people involved in different aspects. from the making of a film, the director and features the guy who brings coffee to people on set. High profile jobs such as director, producer, screenwriter and lead actors may be the face of the film, but without all the other names in the credits there would be no film, especially in the current climate of fantastic special effects and CGI renderings. .
However, that doesn’t mean that Anna Kendrick doesn’t find movies entertaining anymore, otherwise she wouldn’t be in the business. It just means she knows the ins and outs of how to make one, knowledge she uses make her directorial debut with The dating gamea film about the appearance of serial killer Rodney Alcala on the eponymous show in 1978. Alcala died in 2021 and was nicknamed “The Dating Game Killer” because of this disturbing appearance before he was arrested for his crimes.
Anna Kendrick also stars in the recent version Alice, darling, about a woman in a psychologically abusive relationship whose friends stage a subtle intervention to give her the courage to leave. She is also the executive producer of the project, which was particularly poignant for her due to experiences in her personal life. She commented that films show specific types of abuse, so it was difficult to recognize her own situation, which was similar to Alice’s in her film, as it did not resemble common depictions of abuse.
Anna Kendrick’s breakout role was that of Jessica Stanley in Dusk in 2008, but she has acted or voiced roles in many popular or offbeat films since then. She’s into chic comics Scott Pilgrim vs the WorldBroadway musical adaptation In the woodsand the torrid crazy comedy Mike and Dave need wedding dates. She is best known for two other franchises besides the Twilight saga, voicing Princess Poppy in the Trolls movies and singing her heart out in the Perfect franchise.
Alice, darling is currently in theaters, and a third installment of Trolls will be released in 2023. The dating game is in post-production, which means we shouldn’t be long to see what Anna Kendrick can do behind the camera since we already know how fabulous she looks in front.