Anna Kendrick Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED

hi I'm Anna Kendrick and this is the wired autocomplete [Music] interview I'm going to start and um this might be a window into hell for me okay did Anna Kendrick enjoy Pitch Perfect do people really Google this that's so weird ye yes yes this is kind of what makes this interview hell because you're like wait what what what do people like think that I don't those girls are family does Anna Kendrick ever come back to Maine hi stalker I think that I tend to go back in the wintertime in the last couple years I tried

to go back in the summer and was like oh right this is a really popular tourist destination and I can't just like book a hotel super last minute but yeah I feel very lucky that I grew up in Maine and I try to get back when I can but you know it's it's very far away how old was Anna Kendrick in Scott Pilgrim again this is really getting Googled I think I was 23 really curious about why people specifically want to know that but I guess I can't Google back what is Anna Kendrick vocal range

girl I don't know I don't know you're the musician not me I'm really not a strong musician you know however I sing is however I sing that it's is very much your call if if you enjoy it or not but it's embarrassing how little I know about music okay Anna Kendrick up in the air monologue oh but I think there's two I think at one point I go on like a little self-pitying rant about like how at age 23 what I thought my life was going to be and then I go off on George Clooney

at one point so I don't know if it's that that was a fun day I got to get really angry and I remember it was something that like I I didn't really get to express in real life so like yelling at someone who is like one of the most famous people on planet Earth pretty cathartic highly recommend it if you ever get the chance but not me I'm not famous enough so don't like come up to me and yell at me Anna guys what are we doing Anna Kendrick owl I think I think I took

a picture once with an owl I think I put an Instagram post because there was an owl I think the scene got cut but there was a scene where an owl was supposed to like fly near my head in a simple favor one is that what this is about yeah and you looked a little serious you kind of making an owl face and then it got memd oh I'm a meme and I didn't know it I mean what's the point of being a meme if you don't know you're a meme how to do what where

is this going how to do Anna ah yes of course how to do anak Kinder cups if you're Googling this and you live at home with your parents please stop because they will come up to me on the street and they will be pretty upset and um all I can do is apologize I feel like I will probably spend uh the rest of my life apolog oling to parents on the street because they come up to me with a very tight smile and go my kid won't stop doing The Cup Song and I am just

so sorry so very sorry so maybe at least go into your room and lock the door before uh attempting this and I say that from experience cuz when I learned to do it my roommates were really really annoyed with me do you remember how to do it I think I could do it now I think it's like a like probably like riding a bike I think I could do it do you have interest right there oh I see what you're doing I see what you're doing I'm wor than you no no I see what you're

doing cuz then I'm going to look like the guy that was like does anyone have a cup me no I couldn't possibly give me the cup no so uh nice try how does Anna Kendrick have such a perfect face and body I mean I don't oh oh my God that's so nice I was being sassy gosh do I that's awesome that is a mystery because I am mostly Irish and Scottish and um yeah I feel like we we age like cheese I would assume that it is my lifelong aversion to the sun and the outdoors

in general so being uh an insufferable couch potato has served me in at least one way how did Anna Kendrick get her start I feel like over the years I've tried to come up with like a an interesting non-c convoluted version of this and I don't know how successful I've been I started in community theater when I was a little kid um I was really into it then a national open casting call for the Broadway Revival of Annie and any little girl who lik to Belt her face off and annoy her parents um wanted to

audition to be Annie spoiler alert I did not get the job but I ended up like getting a an agent in New York City who was probably in retrospect a very shady cliche of like a child agent like you know just smoking cigarettes they could get me into an audition that wasn't just like a a full open cattle call as they likeed to call them and that was like going to be my best shot at being Annie on Broadway and I still didn't get the job but that agent was like we'll send you out for

other things doll um and so they did and uh and eventually I got a show called High Society on Broadway uh when I was 12 then I kept trying and it was kind of a slower and more humiliating process than I would like it to have been was anak Kendrick on SNL um I did get to host SNL it was the single most nerve-wracking experience of my life I remember being you know behind the opening doors uh and hearing the announcer say my name and thinking I could just run I could just run for it

like what are they going to do tackle me I could flee to Mexico by morning and um and that being a very very tempting uh proposition and then I just blacked out and then it was over so it was great is Anna Kendrick really singing in Pitch Perfect I am really singing in Pitch Perfect I think that all of the group songs are pre-recorded cuz it would just be too complicated to um get everybody you know singing and dancing you know perfectly every take but uh like in the first movie The Cup Song that I

do as my audition um I was just singing that live so it is pretty impressive uh it has uh almost no vocal range but that was really me singing live Anna Kendrick okay it's fine it's fine I'm not mad Anna Kendrick woman of the house I'm hoping that people mean Anna Kendrick woman of the hour which is the film that I directed that will uh come out soon this is fascinating I I guess I confess that when we decided to call the movie woman of the hour it was kind of a last minute change you

know naming any movie uh after an idiom is is a little uh risky I did not anticipate people going woman of the house that's a phrase right woman of the house this feels slightly like uh like a smear campaign from some of my friends uh because I don't leave the house uh I am the ultimate Couch Potato so um in a way this feels like it's kind of stepping on my neck get out of here so sorry so sorry about that are you okay I should stay home maybe I should stay home this okay okay

no I like it I like this sass keeps me on my toes what was Anna Kendrick first movie A non-union little diddy um that I got paid $75 a day to do um called Camp you'll be shocked to find out it was about a bunch of little theater nerds at a nerdy Little Theater Camp kind of a mindbending experience because we were all actually living at the camp that the movie was based on and there was no cell service and no Wi-Fi and no TV and we all got really really close because there was nothing

else to do so I was inconsolable when that movie was over and I probably haven't had a movie experience that was quite that intense since then so every time that actors are like oh making this movie was like summer camp I'm like you don't even know the half of it what is Anna Kendrick best known for I don't know based on my anecdotal experience I I guess Pitch Perfect Right probably but honestly I I don't I feel I feel unqualified to answer this question cuz how how could I say if it's if it's other people's

experience I will say that recently there's like a there's an uptick in people asking me if I'm that girl from Twilight cuz like there's something going on with that Series where like people have rediscovered it or maybe the younger generation is discovering it for the first time but that's been happening like in the last year like I'd say like maybe every fifth person asks me about Twilight so didn't see that coming you said you're unqualified I know she's quite famili with filmography do you have an opinion yeah is that why you're so sassy you yeah

I mean I have no one but I have no one to blame but myself no I I loved you in the last five years oh now she's being nice now I feel bad about calling you a okay I always do feel closer to someone once they've insulted me hey yeah now we're two we're locked in now yeah now let's start doing a riff Ro take it easy what is Anna Kendrick like in real life I mean what she should be answering these questions what do you think I'm like in real life very nice we had

a good interiew that is a lie you do not think I'm nice what has Anna Kendrick been doing I don't know uh I've been watching Love Island I mean who hasn't honestly even when someone in my personal life is like what have you been up to I'm like oh don't do that that's just going to make me feel really really unproductive how about that thank you oh this is going to get interesting who was Anna Kendrick in Twilight here we go is this what you wanted I see what you're doing yeah so in Twilight I

was uh I got to just be like the idiot best friend I don't even know that I was supposed to be the best friend I think I ended up like being around a lot more because in the first movie I just like I don't know I was like willing to make a fool of myself and so then later on they were like why don't we just like throw you in this scene and you can be like a big dumb dummy in that too but I basically got to do do like the easy part everybody else

was like wrestling with like the very nature of Good and Evil and like their Eternal souls and I just got to show up and be like what's up with you guys you guys are like you guys are being really serious did Anna Kendrick okay this I think it's actually because I tweeted once holy I forgot I was in Twilight and I didn't know that that tweet was going to go as viral as it did obviously in one sense of course I didn't forget I was in Twilight but there have been genuinely moments where when people

will talk about Twilight as like a cultural Touchstone of this like moment where people just like lost their minds and it was this huge thing that people weren't really expecting to be that huge and people you know will say things like oh I'll bet this book series is going to be the next Twilight and they're going to turn it you know whatever that I feel so removed moved from the cultural phenomenon part of it cuz again I just showed up and was like a big dumb dummy on screen that I I will start to think

about it and even like reference it as though it's something that's totally separate from me and then be like oh my God I was in those who was Anna Kendrick in trolls I was Princess poppy she's like a little like 4 in fuzzy crazy hair um all singing all Dan in lunatic and um I love her so much when I finally saw the last movie the third one I was like oh this is like kind of emotional I feel like this is like my inner child or something that's really that's an intense thing to say

I know I'm being annoying but I love making those movies so much who is Anna Kendrick friends with wouldn't you like to know well that's all the boards in some ways what I thought it was going to be and there's a couple head scratchers in there that I feel like I feel like I'm going to go home and Google some of that stuff just to be like what is the origin of this I feel like I'm getting sucked into the mystery with you guys love that for me