'Very, very icky': Moment director tried a 'power move' on Anna Kendrick in front of 100 extras
Anna Kendrick has recalled the "very icky" time a director tried to shame her in front of a room full of extras.
She went on to recall a story about an unnamed director asking her to improvise something, only to later criticise her performance.
The Pitch Perfect star, whose directorial debut Woman of the Hour is currently screening on Netflix, recalled the uncomfortable episode on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast this week.
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Anna Kendrick told the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast that an unnamed director tried a "power move" in front of 100 extras. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images
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Kendrick was asked by presenter Josh Horowitz what the worst note was that a director had ever given her.
She told the audience that a director once went up to her after a scene, saying: "'Hey, on this next one just try something, just like make something up… just improv something.'"
She said she did as she was instructed.
"Then the director came over and once again, in front of a hundred extras, went, 'Oof, let's go back to the script,'" she recalled.
Kendrick said it "really felt like a very specific power move thing, to gain dominance or something."
"It was very, very icky and then the thing that I improv-ed ended up in the trailer," she said, to a round of applause.
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Woman of the Hour, in which Kendrick stars, is based on a true story of an aspiring actress and a serial killer whose lives intersect when they meet on an episode of The Dating Game.
Horowitz asked Kendrick what it was about this movie that made her want to turn to directing.
She said that she had been "in a certain situation in my life" when she received the scripts for both that and her 2022 film Alice, Darling.
She said: "Alice, Darling is about a woman in a psychologically abusive relationship and that was a pretty literal reflection of what was happening in my life."
"And this obviously isn't a literal reflection of that but there was something in it that felt like familiar territory," she said.
Kendrick has previously opened up about a past allegedly abusive relationship with someone who she said was "for all intents and purposes my husband."
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