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Ahead of Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding reprising their roles for A Simple Favor 2, the Pitch Perfect prima gushed astir Paul Feig’s contributions to the movie.
Anna Kendrick Talks Pitch Perfect Friendships 10 Years Later
To enactment it simply, Paul Feig did america each a favor.
With Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding returning to reprise their roles successful the anticipated A Simple Favor sequel, it’s lone earthy to person doubts that it volition comparison to the original. Even the Pitch Perfect prima was skeptical astatine first.
“When the thought of doing a 2nd 1 was adjacent pitched, it was benignant of like, ‘How could we apical the archetypal movie,’” she told E! News successful an exclusive interview. “And Paul has truly done an unthinkable occupation of making this movie adjacent crazier.”
And portion Paul—who besides directed Bridesmaids and Freaks and Geeks—was engaged doing the impossible, Anna was relieved that she was surrounded by acquainted faces.
“I was really truly blessed that it was a batch of the aforesaid filmmaking team,” she admitted, “because it was the archetypal movie that I was acting successful aft directing for the archetypal time.”
“I was precise disquieted about getting connected a acceptable and having radical consciousness like, ‘Oh, wow. You nonstop 1 movie and you deliberation you cognize everything,’” she continued. “And Paul and John, they were like, ‘Oh, she's ever been similar this. She's ever been opinionated and nosy.’ So astatine slightest they knew that's conscionable my personality.”
So it felt beauteous earthy for the 39-year-old to marque her directorial debut with her Netflix film, Woman of the Hour—based connected the existent communicative of a serial killer’s quality connected The Dating Game. And yet the Twilight histrion admitted to coming face-to-face with a small imposter syndrome on the way.
“I kept expecting idiosyncratic to crook to maine and go, ‘Oh, you don't really cognize what you're doing, and we recovered you out,’” she shared. “And alternatively I conscionable got to person the astir astonishing experiences collaborating with truly talented people.”
But nonetheless, she persisted with the assistance of a small caffeine and a large mentor. In fact, Anna is partnering with Keurig and their caller innovation, K-Brew+Chill, to promote everyone to substance their wildest dreams with flavors similar McCafé Iced Mocha Frappe—which is her idiosyncratic favorite. Because adjacent she volition admit she requires a pick-me-up, “I americium thing if not a full homebody, like, lazy bones.”
And with her iced java successful hand, the archetypal idiosyncratic she called for proposal erstwhile taking a spot successful the director’s seat was nary different than Paul himself.
“It was truthful comic due to the fact that Paul is universally known as, like, the nicest antheral successful Hollywood. He's conscionable ever got a grin connected his face, and he's conscionable truthful positive,” she explained. “The 2nd helium heard I was going to direct, it was similar helium shifted into this different cogwheel and truly gave maine this pugnacious emotion pep talk. He went into manager mode, and helium was similar ‘Guess what? The subordinate stops with you. No excuses. You person to marque definite your imaginativeness doesn't get compromised.’”
It was truthful intense,” she continued. “I deliberation my eyes were bugging retired connected the different broadside of the phone. It was awesome. “
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