Anna Kendrick donated her WOMAN OF THE HOUR earnings to RAINN, National Center for Victims of Crime

[varioussaints]

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Anna Kendrick recently guested on the Crime Junkie podcast to discuss (amongst other things) her decision to become a director, her relationship with true crime, and the ethics surrounding the production and consumption of true crime media. One of the biggest takeaways from the interview is that Anna Kendrick donated all of the money she earned

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[deja_vu822]

okay what surprising way will everyone find to hate her for this

[ginainabottle]

idk but they will bc based on the last post she's the Chappell Roan of acting to ONTD lol

[varioussaints]

The last post was a bit surprising to me. I've admittedly always had a soft spot for her, but some people really took issue with basically everything she said and I still don't understand why. I've definitely been in situations where I was set up to fail (albeit not in front of ~100 people, but 20-30+, definitely) by men who wanted to "humble" me and it was horrific every time it happened. She became most famous as a comedic actor, so being asked to improv in front of a full set sounds entirely plausible to me

[ginainabottle]

If anything, things like this probably happen all the time on movie sets but people just don't talk about them

As someone who actually works on sets I can't recall any director letting an actor know something didn't work (especially not with a 'oof') in front of everyone. If it's particularly bad, they just shrug off and move on to another take. Notes are always given either privately or in front of the main cast that was in the scene. I know Hollywood is terrible but that's not normal set behavior, it's just a shitty power play and I have no doubt most comments would've recognized it as such had Anna been a well liked celeb here.

[varioussaints]

Oh man, that's really disheartening to hear. Then it definitely makes sense (to me at least) why no one would be talking about it, they'd be essentially calling out the director just by bringing it up.

[ginainabottle]

exactly! based on usual set behavior it was abundantly obvious to me the director was trying to put Anna down so reading the comments was very ok, ONTD still hates this woman lol

[kwoneunbi]

It's legit frustrating how some people seem to believe that you have to earn their empathy, tbh.

[kwoneunbi]

Election or no election, I feel like people would have been unnecessarily mean either way. I get not liking the movie, but the projection irt that situation with the director going on is ridic. Also, given that this probably happened when she was still with that man (the ex she talked about being her abuser), no shit she was especially hurt by it!