Does Anna Kendrick Know Lines From Her Most Famous Movies?

Variety

Anna Kendrick guesses lines from 'Pitch Perfect,' 'Up In the Air,' her upcoming directorial debut for Netflix’s 'Woman of the Hour,' 'Twilight,' and more.

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00:00Oh, oh, no, what is it? I can't who's naked in a movie with me. Okay, it feels really weird to say that out loud

00:11I can't concentrate on anything you're saying until you cover your junk. Oh

00:16No, I thought I would be good at this game. Damn it. It has to be like a like a raunchy comment

00:21Like is it Mike and Dave it is it? Mr. Right? Oh, no. What is it? I can't who's naked in a movie with me

00:28Oh my god. Now. I feel now I feel dumb. You have to audition for the Bellas

00:33I can't concentrate on anything you're saying until you cover your junk when I'm saying cover your junk. I'm

00:39Unfortunately picturing male genitalia. I say this in the shower to

00:43Brittany snow because we did have like the least sexy

00:47Although then it ended up being kind of sexy like while we were shooting it

00:50I was like, this is the least sexy shower scene that's ever been committed to film. This is so funny. Yeah, apparently

00:57It it was kind of sexy to some people which makes me happy

01:01I do wish that but Chloe would be like living on a tiny cottage together already

01:08I did always think like if there ever were another one

01:11It would be like can we just have them get together already? Like what are we doing? This is madness at this point

01:16Okay. Oh

01:18Everybody has a dark side

01:21Some of us are better at hiding it than others. Oh

01:24Oh

01:26God it's like I can hear my own

01:30Delivery

01:31Damn, I thought I would have a better memory than this

01:35Is it kind of like a some of us are better

01:37It's that kind of delivery, right? Why that's weird

01:40This is a weird feeling to be like I can picture myself saying it and I have no idea what it's from

01:47the accountant no, oh

01:50My god, and we just shot the sequel to this I guess the delivery should have given it away. There's a kind of sing-song

01:58Delivery in my brain about it. This is a simple favor. Everybody has a dark side

02:04Some of us are better at hiding it than others

02:06God, I think I'm like slightly drunk in this scene if not very drunk in this scene not at work

02:13Not really, but you know in in the scene. I think that drunk Stephanie is my favorite

02:19Stephanie I think I said that to Paul the director when we were making the second one that I was like if you can just

02:24Get her drunk in scenes

02:26Like if we can have an excuse for her to have like had one too many drinks

02:31Like I really enjoy who she becomes when when she's had a couple. I do think that in the sequel

02:38Stephanie

02:40Has like a little bit more of a spine but you know, she is still like fundamentally who she is

02:45I really wasn't sure how there could be a follow-up to the first movie and that Paul Feig

02:52You know for a guy who makes like some of our favorite comedies

02:56there's something dark going on upstairs like somewhere deep deep down because he's like an absolute sweetheart and he's

03:02The man who brought us bridesmaids and yet I was reading the the script for the sequel and I was like, okay Paul

03:08I see what I see what you're really about

03:11Hmm oh

03:12Boy, aren't people from Arizona supposed to be like really tan. This is Twilight, right?

03:17Yeah, aren't people from Arizona supposed to be like really tan. I remember

03:22auditioning for

03:24Jessica Stanley and Twilight and sort of being like, I mean, there's no way I'm getting this job

03:30Like I I'm the farthest thing from like because I think in the book

03:35She was like the popular girl who's super athletic and good at volleyball and I was like again, have we seen me?

03:43So it was one of those moments where I was like, well

03:45I just want to like try to be funny in the audition and maybe that way like the casting director will think of me

03:49For other stuff

03:50It is kind of amazing how you wish that you could drill that thing into your head of like people like you more when you're

03:57Bringing yourself to the table. I just was like, oh I made Catherine Hardwicke laugh in the audition. That's great

04:03Yeah

04:04getting that job was still like the last thing from my mind and I was very happy to

04:09Be in that movie and be the only person who wasn't like taking everything super seriously

04:15Cuz that's hard like taking that material and like really making it like life or death, you know your soul's on the line

04:23The fact that I just got to show up and like say stuff like this. It made my life pretty easy. Oh

04:28My father's house was a nightmare your house a dream now. I want something in between

04:33Oh, this is into the woods. My father's house was a nightmare

04:37your house a dream

04:41Now I want something in between I

04:44Loved making this movie so much. This might have been the only

04:47Job, I'd ever gotten where I started crying when I found out I got the job like I just couldn't believe it

04:54Like I mean for so many reasons

04:56But not the least of which is that I think of into the woods and I think well

04:59I'm gonna audition for a little red cuz I'm like shrill and small and because it's a movie not a stage production

05:06They're like no. No, we're gonna cast an actual child to play a little red. And so I was like, oh, well, sure

05:11I mean, I'll audition for Cinderella, but like I'm the last person you would cast to play

05:17Sondheim's Cinderella

05:19I cannot believe that I got to stand like three feet away from Meryl Streep while she

05:24Performed last midnight people would pay so much money to be standing three feet away from her at any point

05:32but let alone that point I felt like

05:35Like I was getting away with something. You know what? I mean? Like I'd snuck on set. I was amazing

05:42Girlfriends can be nice. You just had a bad one. Oh 50-50 girlfriends can be nice

05:48You just had a bad one

05:50I actually think this is really sweet that in that scene and then even in the final scene of the movie both of us

05:58Were like, well, maybe my character shouldn't be like making the first move because I was coming from a place of like

06:04I'm playing his therapist. And so this is like very unethical

06:07but I thought it was so sweet that Joe Gordon-Levitt like was really hesitant to

06:13Do this thing that was kind of playful

06:15Do this thing that was kind of playful in the movie where he says something like

06:21basically that he like wants to fire me as his therapist so that we can like go on a date because he was like

06:26But as a professional I really want to like respect her and I should value her as a therapist

06:33But I thought like that spoke really well of who Joe is as a person

06:38I'm a strong independent. Okay. I'm a strong independent woman. Oh god, and I will get on a table

06:46And shake my shit to RiRi because that's my right America feminism

06:51It feels really weird to say that out loud without wearing like my push-up bra and a red wig

06:59This is bike and Davey wedding dates

07:01I am a strong independent woman and I will get on a table and shake my shit to RiRi because it's my right

07:08America feminism again very drunk in this scene

07:12I think even the wig I'm wearing in this scene because I like changed my hair a bunch in that movie is

07:17Like really really ratty and stuff. So I felt really really gross this night and I did get on a table

07:25In front of a bunch of background performers and do a little table dance. It was a different time

07:34You're so pretty you're exactly what I want to look like in 15 years

07:39God this is hard to read considering that it has been 15 years since I shot up in the air

07:46Which is what this is from

07:51Seeing this makes me like wow

07:52It has been 15 years and I I had the absolute audacity to say this to the stunning and talented Vera Farmiga

08:00I'm disappointed that I don't look more like Vera Farmiga. That's actually pretty upsetting

08:04I think maybe I was expecting to actually transform into her with her like icy blue eyes and

08:11perfect hair

08:12Anyway, again, I said this drunk God, maybe I'm really that's the key to every character. Is that I'm better when the characters drunk

08:22Maybe next time we don't date the girl with 11 evil ex-boyfriends. Oh, this is from Scott Pilgrim

08:28Maybe next time we don't date the girl with 11 evil ex-boyfriends

08:33I really like shooting that scene

08:34well

08:35probably because that movie was absolutely bat shit crazy to film cuz it's really complicated and there's like

08:4220 principal characters in every scene

08:44so it was really nice to have like one scene where it's just like me and

08:49Michael Cera on the swings. It was like a very calm day on a very hectic

08:54Set and I know that I'm a sister. So I know that thing of being like, okay, sweetie. Maybe better decisions next time

09:04Oh

09:07My god, where are we? What is this place? Anyway, I'm auditioning him in like a week. This is from woman of the hour. Oh

09:15My god, where are we?

09:18What is this place?

09:20Anyway, I'm auditioning in a week

09:22This was the second day of filming and it was my first time acting on screen while I was directing

09:28You might be seeing or I hope you're not seeing some internal panic, you know

09:33Obviously it is like a fascinating true crime story

09:36but it really feels like it's exploring these themes around the way that women move through the world and kind of have to try to

09:44Survive every day every moment. I'm a loud director. I

09:49Mean, I guess I'm a loud person. I'm sort of joking, but I was loud occasionally

09:55I was kind of like worried about being really the shortest person

10:00at work and

10:02Trying to be a leader and be heard meant that I did kind of default to being a little bit shrill sometimes

10:09But I tried to at the very least be kind of effusively grateful which which I genuinely am for everybody that showed up

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