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

Hi, I'm Anna Kendrick, and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview. I'm going to start, and this might be a window into hell for me. Did Anna Kendrick enjoy Pitch Perfect? Do people really Google this? That's so weird. Yeah. Yes. Yes. This is kind of what makes this interview hell, because you're like, wait, what? What? What do people 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 of 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 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 is very much your call if you enjoy it or not. But it's embarrassing how little I know about music. 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's like one of the most famous people on planet Earth. Pretty cathartic. Highly recommended 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, you look a little serious. You kind of are making an owl face and then it got me. 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 did you Anna Kendrick Cupps? 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 all I can do is apologize. I feel like I will probably spend the rest of my life apologizing 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 attempting this. And I say that from experience, because 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. No, no, no. I see what you're doing. Because 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. So nice. I was being sassy. Gosh. Do I? That's awesome. That is a mystery because I am mostly Irish and Scottish. And 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 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 an interesting non 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. I was really into it. Then a national open casting call for the Broadway revival of Annie. Can any little girl who likes to belt her face off and annoy her parents 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 full open cattle call, as they like to call them. And that was like going to be my best shot at being Annie on Broadway. I still didn't get the job. But that agent was like, we'll send you out for other things, doll. And so they did. And and eventually I got a show called High Society on Broadway 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 Anna Kendrick on SNL? 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 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 and that being a very, very tempting proposition. And then I just blacked out and then it was over. So it's 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 prerecorded because it would just be too complicated to get everybody, you know, singing and dancing, you know, perfectly every take. But like in the first movie, the cup song that I do as my audition, I was just singing that live. So it is pretty impressive. It has almost no vocal range, but that was really me singing live. Anna Kendrick. OK, 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 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 after an idiom is is a little risky. I did not anticipate people going, Woman of the House. That's a phrase, right? Woman of the House. This feels slightly like like a smear campaign from some of my friends because I don't leave the house. I am the ultimate couch potato. So 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 OK? Maybe I should stay home? This? OK. OK. No, I like it. I like the sass. Keeps me on my toes. What was Anna Kendrick's first movie? A non-union little ditty that I got paid $75 a day to do 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 mind bending 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 guess pitch perfect, right? Probably. But honestly, I don't. I feel I feel unqualified to answer this question because 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 because 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 asked me about Twilight. So didn't see that coming. You said you're unqualified. I know you have an opinion. Yeah. Is that why you're so sassy? You fucking bitch. Yeah. I mean, I have no one but I have no one to blame but myself. Oh, now she's being nice. Now I feel bad about calling you a fucking bitch. I always do feel closer to someone once they've insulted me. Hey. Yeah, we're locked in now. 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? That is a lie. You do not think I'm nice. What has Anna Kendrick been doing? I don't know. 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 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 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? OK, this I think is actually because I tweeted once. Holy shit, 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 from the cultural phenomenon part of it, because 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 four inch fuzzy, crazy hair, all singing, all dancing lunatic. And 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 of 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.