Anna Kendrick Says ‘F- You’ to Director Who Dissed Her in Front of 100 Extras

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Anna Kendrick says "f*ck you" to the director who set her up to fail and mocked her on set.

“A director once in a room full of 100 extras or something was like, ‘Hey, on this next one just try something. Just make something up. Just improv something.' And I did it and then the… pic.twitter.com/OY1zyVf7aW
- Variety (@Variety) October 28, 2024

Comments

[ponyboy]

it's so clear woman of the hour is more about her than the actual crimes

[firstknivesclub]

huh

[josiefier]

Yeah, I watched a documentary on the guy last night. Somehow, I'd never heard of him before Woman of the Hour - but one thing that struck me is just how many liberties they took. Like the hitchhiker at the diner at the end - she wasn't there for that arrest. She had picked him out of a photo lineup at a police station. And that also wasn't close to the end of his spree. Plus, that "dinner" before the show never happened - which we knew. And the one that gets me the most - because of how known it would have been to anyone doing research - the guy was bachelor #1, not 3. Either do a docudrama or don't, but don't use a famous case where victims' families are still around as an allegory for whatever you yourself went through just so people will watch

[ponyboy]

i've known about the case for years and i'm not surprised at your reaction cause once you know the facts it's so clear that she didn't really make this about the real case. from the utter laziness in reproducing the period - couldn't even be bothered to match real footage - to the "feminist" moments punching it up all being fabricated (they never had a drink together, he never stalked her in the parking lot; cheryl was instantly believed that he was creepy and no one pressured her) and clearly much too modern for the time period view on things (cheryl didn't sit up there and invent "deeper" questions, she knew what she was up for like everyone else) it's so clear anna kendrick just scooped up this movie to make it about herself and her grievances towards misogyny in the acting industry not really so much a reflection of what actually occurred and the real horror there.

i would have much rather it focused on his actual victims, and the fact most of them weren't even grown women, they were children. he was a sex offender when he went

[britneyjeanspea]

It’s not like she wrote the movie lmao

[ponyboy]

she did, in fact, direct it and could have asked for changes to the script or chose to do things differently.

this is also a hugely silly thing to say; do you think directors' egos or personalities are totally not there when picking a script to produces? she may not have written it line by line but she chose how to direct this, chose how she wanted to portray things and is using this entire promo to talk about misogyny - misogyny for the most part aimed at her, in her industry. she bears responsibility for what she chooses to put on screen.

[celja]

It's just based on the case though, the movie isn't supposed to recreate it play-by-play.

[ponyboy]

and based on the case, it's still woefully bad towards real people and clearly more about her using a case to deal with her misogynistic treatment irl. idk why it's hard for you and the other poster to consider that she could've and should've used something else as a conduit for that message. at the very least if she were going to do this, she could've gave a fuck enough to make it at least look like the 1970s or at least not fudge or make up significant details of the case.

[passionless_me]

I'm generally with you on "based on real events" movies taking liberties for the better, but the liberties in this were incredibly ham-fisted and felt a little shame-y toward the victims in furtherance of a lifetime channel version of feminist drama.

[saturdaysinbed]

she has been bragging about how much care she took to make sure that things were represented accurately lmao

[benihime99]

She's the director, producer and lead actress

[mixtape_reverie]

Yeah I think the style choices as far as time period were just a budget limitation. They made this with like no money.

[willardwright]

Honestly, I felt the same way. I get that movies based on true stories usually dramatize some stuff and add extra content, but they basically invented so much stuff just to make the movie more dramatic and the protagonist more relevant to the case. It really rubbed me the wrong way how they lowkey made the show host villainous for no reason. And people will watch this and think this is how it all went in real life.

[ponyboy]

that's my issue: people will watch this and assume this is how it really happened and it's really, really not the case. particularly since the film took an actual incident where a woman was instantly believed and flips it to say she wasn't. it's frustrating.

[pciam]

Yeah. After the movie I went and watched the real clip, and it was … not like that in the slightest lol.

[passionless_me]

I appreciated the focus on the victims over a biopic of the killer, but her "feminist" questions and the stupid neanderthal answers were extremely out of place for an otherwise interesting movie.

Her character ended up being the ~brilliant feminist~ that saw through him in comparison to the several victims shown who were too dumb to figure it out.