Anna Kendrick plays Alice in upcoming thriller "Alice, Darling." Image Source: Collider
Anna Kendrick opens up about working on "Alice, Darling."
Actress Anna Kendrick, who is going to be appearing in the upcoming movie, ‘Alice, Darling’, which is going to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, shared her experience of working on the movie.
For her moving performance in the film, which is helmed by Mary Nighy and written by Alanna Francis, Anna said she had to dig deep. The story of the movie centers on Alice, who is portrayed by Anna Kendrick, and is bound to her wealthy boyfriend Simon, who is portrayed by actor Charlie Carrick. Alice appears distressingly distant from her friends Kaniehtiio Horn and Wunmi Mosaku as they are on a birthday outing. Alice gradually falls apart as a result of Simon's mind games, and her friends try to intervene and help.
In an interview with People magazine, she revealed that she had recently recovered from a personal experience of emotional and psychological abuse. As a result, she believes that her representative sent the screenplay to her because he anticipated Anna's mental state or the issues she would be facing. Anna stated that his agent informed her that the film covered all she had discussed with him.
The actress claimed that reading and going through the screenplay gave her a unique sense of identity because, although she had seen many films portraying abusive and toxic relationships, they did not look like what was happening to her, the screenplay she read gave her a sense of resonance and helped her to normalize and minimize whatever was taking place because, in her opinion, it would look like that if she were in an abusive relationship.
In terms of describing her previous relationship, Anna Kendrick, said that she was in a situation where she loved and trusted another person more than she trusted herself. As a result, when that person tells her that she has a distorted sense of reality, that she is impossible, and that everything she believes to be happening is not happening, life quickly becomes confusing. The actress claimed that she found herself in a scenario where, in the end, everything she had believed to be happening was happening. As a result, she had a special opportunity for emotion and recovery that many other people don't have.
Even with this concrete starting point for her, to walk out of the relationship knowing that she was not crazy, recovery has been extremely difficult for the actress, who declined to name her ex-partner. She did, however, say that what happened in that relationship was the hardest task of her adult life because she explained that her body still believes that it was her fault.
For Anna Kendrick, Alice, Darling marks the first time she's taken on a project so relevant to her. She claimed that she normally merely reads a strong story, becomes one of the characters, and then directs the film. But when it came to "Alice, Darling," Anna claimed that the timing of the script's discovery at that point in her life truly caught her by surprise. She even recalls the director, Mary Nighy, telling her what she was going through at their first Zoom meeting. Furthermore, she informed her that everything had just transpired and probably shouldn't do that if the movie was shooting in a month because it just happened. However, it was still months away. Anna didn't run the risk of experiencing the same experience again. But it's undeniably a distinctive experience.
Anna Kendrick said that filming for the movie was very cathartic for her and added that she thinks that the most therapeutic piece was actually building relationships with the collaborators and sharing personal experiences, histories, and opinions and then creating the masterpiece together. The actress is also gearing up for her directorial debut with 'The Dating Game', which is a true crime thriller and is based on the unbelievable real tale of Cheryl Bradshaw, a bachelorette on the popular 1970s television matchmaking program The Dating Game who selected the charming and humorous bachelor number one, Rodney Alcala. Alcala had a lovely exterior, but his terrible secret was that he was a psychotic serial murderer.
