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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[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.

If anything, things like this probably happen all the time on movie sets but people just don't talk about them. The extras and crew probably don't want to risk not being hired again over what would essentially be a nothingburger of an anecdote ("Oh wow, Anna Kendrick sucks at improv!" isn't exactly the most interesting story-time of all time). Everyone else is probably just really glad it didn't happen to them.

She didn't write the script or produce the movie, she was just the director and star. While parts of it don't seem to have landed well (I haven't seen it myself, just going off what I've seen from reviews), the worst she seems to be guilty of is overselling the movie. And it has given her the opportunity to talk about something that really matters to her and an experience that could go a long way to explaining the person she was over the course of the relationship and the person she is now.

I don't know if I'm wording things well but I've noticed the same. Honestly, I'm hoping it's because a lot of people are super stressed about the election and therefore temporarily allergic to being nice or something because it's getting a bit overwhelming.

[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!