Anna Kendrick Included a 'Very Specific, Weird Remark About My Body' That Somebody Told Her at 19 inWoman of the Hour

Mar. 15, 2025

Anna Kendrick on Oct. 10, 2024.Photo:Kayla Oaddams/WireImage

Kayla Oaddams/WireImage

Anna Kendrickdrew on some real-life experiences whiledirecting her first feature film.

While recently promoting her new Netflix movieWoman of the HouronSiriusXM’sCrime Junkie AFpodcast with host Ashley Flowers, Kendrick, 39, revealed she had one of her actors try saying a line a casting director told her when she was 19 years old.

“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 said of the actors in the scene.

“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.

Anna Kendrick and director of photography Zach Kuperstein on set of Woman of the Hour.Leah Gallo/Netflix

Leah Gallo/Netflix

While Kendrick did not specify which line featured the comment, the scene she referred to inWoman of the Hourmeets Kendrick’s character as she tells two casting directors during an audition that filming nude scenes “is just not for me.”

“Oh, I’m sure they’re fine,” one of the casting directors responds in the film.

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Tony Hale and Anna Kendrick in Woman of the Hour.Leah Gallo/Netflix

Kendrick noted that she “really had fun making a period piece and playing up the kind of seventies of it all.”

“But also, some of this stuff happened not that long ago, you know,” Kendrick pointed out. “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.”

Woman of the Hour,which also starsTony Hale, Daniel Zovatto, Nicolette Robinson, Pete Holmes,Autumn Best, Kathryn Gallagher and Kelley Jakle, is streaming on Netflix now.

source: people.com