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

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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.

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[dreamdate]

Loved the film, and I say this as someone who doesn’t like to watch much true crime if at all. What makes it awful to watch is not only this man committing these crimes, but the ways his victims knew what was going to happen and how they tried to fight, whether they survived or not.

I also think it’s real fucking icky that people keep bringing up how Anna is inserting herself in this film. Considering she’s a survivor of DV, and who knows what else she hasn’t disclosed, I feel she’s more than equipped to understand how to tell this story. If they’d gone with a man to direct this, it would’ve been fucking awful.

[ginainabottle]

I also think it’s real fucking icky that people keep bringing up how Anna is inserting herself in this film.

who would've thought that directors and writers self-insert all the time amirite? lol Poetic license has been a thing since forever and films based on true crimes have used it for ages now.

[mandapandao_o]

That's really cool of her and idk why people are hating on her for this.

I liked parts of this film but as a whole, it was painful to get through. Mainly the pacing's fault.

[toddies]

you can tell the people writing essays didn't actually watch the movie. it's not a true crime movie, it's about misogyny. heaven forbid a filmmaker use a real life event to build a story about men not taking women seriously, a man who says all the right things to put women at ease so he can abuse/kill them, how hard women have to work to stay safe & alive around men generally.