Anna Kendrick just made her directorial debut on Netflix with Woman of the Hour, and dropped a crazy line about nudity scenes that she’s now confessed was actually said to her. While promoting the film, Anna Kendrick spoke to Crime Junkie AF about a “weird remark” a casting director had told her about filming nude scenes when she was just 19 years old.
Woman of the Hour, the terrifying thriller about serial killer Rodney Alcala and his appearance on The Dating Game TV show, featured a scene between two casting directors and Cheryl Bradshaw, played by Anna Kendrick herself.
“While we were shooting it, I was like, ‘hey, will you guys do this? Will you say these couple lines with me? I’m probably gonna cut it, but I don’t know. It might be interesting,’” she asked the actors in the scene.
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“They ask me if I’m willing to do nudity, and then this guy makes a very specific and weird remark about my body and that happened to me verbatim when I was 19. Verbatim. In an audition. Yeah. Crazy. Absolutely crazy,” she recalled.
The scene ended up making it into the final film, with the casting director asking Cheryl Bradshaw if she’d be willing to do nudity, and after she declined, pushing with “oh, I’m sure they’re fine.”
There are a lot of sexist remarks made throughout the film that Anna noted happened “not that long ago.” She said that “some of the little, like juicy, little tidbits where you think, ‘Well, no one would say that now,’ and you know, 19 was not recent for me, but yeah. It was not like relegated to the 1970s.”
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