To everyone dying to see Anna Kendrick bare it all in a movie: Sorr-rrry!
Like many other A-list stars, the acclaimed actress won't be appearing in her birthday
suit when it comes to her roles.
"I'm not gonna ever show that to anyone.”
Kendrick explained in her memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, that while she doesn't think
ditching one's skivvies is inherently a bad thing, it's just not her thing.
And she wants to keep a clear division between who she is in film and who she is in real
life.
She wrote,
"I've tried explaining it to people, but it seems you either immediately understand, or
you don't see what the big deal is.
I don't mind [an intimate] scene […] but my physical parts always feel like mine.
'Cause […] they are."
"Basically the only thing I haven't done is a nude scene.”
But this wasn't the first time Kendrick made her case.
In a 2010 interview with The Telegraph, Kendrick, then 24 - and fresh off of filming The Twilight
Saga - was asked if she'd strip down onscreen as a means of shedding her teen thriller image.
She responded,
"Emphatically no.
I will not do that.
I have been lucky because I have not been pigeonholed into the teenage movie category.
I am not criticizing people who do that but I plan to keep doing what I am doing and hope
it keeps going good."
Of course, it could also help that Kendrick's raw talent extends beyond her appearance:
In 1998, she became the second youngest person to ever be nominated for a Tony Award for
High Society.
In 2010, she was nominated for an Oscar for playing the extremely type-A, uptight Natalie
Keener in Up In The Air, alongside George Clooney.
"Don't you think it's worth giving her a chance?”
“A chance to what?”
“A chance at something real!”
Kendrick told Playboy that she's not only uncomfortable with intimate scenes, but that
she's also not a huge fan of kissing scenes either - even fully clothed - because a scripted
smooch takes all the fun out of making out.
“This is really awkward, isn’t it?
Well, if you don't stop, I'm just gonna kiss you, is that gonna be okay?”
She explained,
"It's so mechanical; it wasn't the actor's idea to kiss me.
We just have to look at each other and say, 'Okay, I guess we are doing this now.'
For women, the fact that someone wants to kiss you is the exciting part.
If someone's kissing you when they don't particularly want to be, it takes the fun out of it.
Also, it's the makeup department's job to have mints, which is random.
Why the makeup department?"
For her Aubrey Plaza-Zac Efron romp, Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates, Kendrick's character
appeared sans wardrobe, but Kendrick herself did not.
In fact, she picked out her very own butt double for the raunchy romcom, a process she
said was nothing short of bizarre.
"Cuz it's my right.
America.
Feminism.”
“Did you just push your t--- up and say feminism?”
“Yeah.
Read a twitter.”
Kendrick claims she had to choose a body double from a binder full of pictures of unclothed
women from the neck down - and who, despite only needing to show their backsides for the
scene, had also been photographed from the front.
Kendrick wrote in her book, quote, "It looked like something out of Silence Of The Lambs."
"I felt so creepy.
I felt like a serial killer.”
Despite admittedly feeling totally creepy during the process, Kendrick selected a tush
that she thought matched hers, and was told it actually wasn't a match because the butt
was allegedly too "square."
Ultimately, the petite powerhouse said of the flick,
"Some of those shots are me and some of them are not me.
When you choose a butt double they're like, 'Is there anything you want?'
As though they were going to scour the nation for the perfect ass you described and then
they showed me three pictures and were like, 'This is the only one that could be you.
This is the only one that isn't seven feet tall.'"
The actress told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show that you only see half of a butt in the
movie, but she still wanted to be sure that it wasn't half of her own booty.
"There's this scene where you kinda just see like the half of a butt and I was still like
I don't wanna show half of my butt, so I'll just get a butt double cuz I'm a big timer
now.”
One moment Kendrick actually enjoyed filming was a shower scene in Pitch Perfect where
Brittany Snow's character barges in upon hearing Kendrick singing.
"You can sing!
How high does your belt go?”
“My what?
Oh my God.”
She and Snow revealed on Anderson Cooper Live that they weren't totally exposed since they
wore pasties, and Kendrick joked that the scene wasn't "uncomfortable," quipping,
"It was the best day of my life.”
“Really?”
“It's the reason I did the movie, Anderson."
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