Anna Kendrick on ‘Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ and ‘Twilight’
Anna Kendrick was in fine form Sunday afternoon as the U.S. star continues to traverse the festival circuit with Babies. At a Zurich Film Festival masterclass session, Kendrick took an adoring crowd through the early years of her career all the way to an Oscar nomination for Up in the Air, as well as stories from her time on Pitch Perfect, A Simple Favor, and her directorial debut, 2023’s Woman of the Hour. Host Max Loong kicked off by asking about Kendrick’s beginnings in Maine, where she grew up, and how her starring role in Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air — opposite George Clooney — came to be. In those early auditions, an unsuspecting superpower came from Kendrick’s radical modesty. “Any time in my career where I just thought, ‘Well there’s not a shot in hell that I’m gonna get this job,’ I do absolutely my best work — because you’re relieved of the stress of it,” explained the actress. Kendrick found herself taking the character where she wanted to go instead of what the casting director …
