On Air interview
Kendrick gives an interview to Ryan Seacrest during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her role in the film Into The Woods.
I love this version of Cinderella because she’s got Chris Pine (the Prince) chasing after her and she’s still not totally convinced and I love that about her. She’s a lady that knows she’s worth it. He’s a great singer! He was so shy about it in rehearsals. He’s like Frank Sinatra! I want this man to sing me to sleep.
Anna Kendrick interview
Kendrick discusses her achievements and challenges over the last five years, with Richard Crouse.
If there is something really incredible everybody wants it so I audition. It’s a competitive business by nature. I know that room and that line of two hundred girls. I didn’t have to dig that deep to know the anxiety and self doubt. Obviously it was a lot more fun to be working on a movie where I’m doing that and not going home and crying into my pillow. That was a fun thing to perform and see inside her head and talk about the indignity of not being paid attention to when you are trying to perform for somebody.
Anna Kendrick interview
Kendrick discusses her encounter with Beyonce and Katy Perry during the Grammys night. Kendrick (on Beyonce):
We said we’ll just walk past her to get some of the aura. We walked past. My friends was like, dude, she was like motioning to you and You just walked past her. And the panic. I didn’t quite know what to do. But I thought once in a lifetime, just do it. I went back and I just — I was like, I’m so sorry to do this, I just wanted to meet you, you’re such an inspiration. She stood up, she was so nice and points to Jay-Z and she was like, we just watched you on the Kennedy center honors, and you’re so cute in your little red dress, which means she actually watched it, or I was having a stroke. And I imagined the entire thing.
Talks about Camp
Kendrick discusses getting the Camp role. A cousin to the director encouraged her to audition for the movie:
There was a woman in High Society named Randy Graff, and she’s cousins with Todd Graff, who directed Camp. When I was 13 and the show had just closed, she told me that I should go and audition for her cousin’s movie. I went and I read for [the part of] Fritzi and they did a workshop of it when I was 13, and then when he was finally getting it made, I was 16 and he said the job was still mine if I wanted it. It wasn’t really an age-specific role.