Anna Kendrick Gets Real About Press Tours & Feeling Safe In Her Body

Anna Kendrick stars in the upcoming psychological thriller Alice, Darling and is finding the press tour to be something difficult to navigate.

The 37-year-old Pitch Perfect actress has already shared about her personal connection to the film, revealing the shame she has felt over her abusive relationship.

Anna was asked how she has been able to keep her emotional sanity while answering questions from the press about the film, which is about a psychologically abusive boyfriend.

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“I’m really grateful for that question. You are the first person to ask me that about doing press,” Anna told IndieWire.

“People have asked me, ‘Was it challenging to shoot the movie?’ and I guess that question makes sense. But I’m actually finding that the press is the thing that has been a little trickier to navigate, making sure that I’m OK and feeling safe in my body,” she continued.

Anna also said that revealing her personal connection to the film was somewhat accidental. “The first interview where I talked about it, it was just sort of happening and as it was happening, I was going like, ‘What are you doing? This is a 10-minute phoner, it’s not even really about this. What are you saying?’ In my personal life, I was not keeping it a secret, because keeping it a secret was compounding the shame so badly … [and] that carried over into the very first interview that I did about it,” she shared.

“It’s not like I thought I was going to sit on it forever, or never mention that I felt a personal connection to the film, but it just sort of happened,” Anna continued. “I guess, like every really terrifying thing, the world didn’t swallow me whole when that happened. I didn’t just catch on fire. I’m kind of glad the Band-Aid got ripped off.”

Anna reflected on the difference between being on the set of the film compared to the challenge of answering questions in press interviews.

“I think that the difference is that on set, I felt really OK because I felt so safe and so surrounded by people who had a really intimate understanding of this type of relationship, and the experience of going through it,” Anna said. “And I think that being believed and feeling seen and being cared for is all we can really ask for when we are in a bad space, and I had that in spades when we were on set.”

Alice, Darling will be released in theaters on January 20, 2023.

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