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Anna Kendrick Recalls “Actively Shoving Down” Urge To Make Directorial Debut ‘Woman Of The Hour’ & Drawing From “Absurd” Hollywood Experience
Pulling from her own "absurd" experiences in Hollywood, Anna Kendrick in a Q&A about her directorial debut 'Woman of the Hour,' about the Dating Game killer.
While discussing her new movie Woman of the Hour, premiering Wednesday on Netflix, the Oscar nominee tells Deadline that although she was “actively shoving down” the urge to direct writer Ian McDonald ‘s Black List script, Kendrick was so drawn to the “heartbreak” in his depiction of “Dating Game Killer” Rodney Alcala ‘s victims, she got “really sick at the idea” of anyone else helming the film. While Zovatto provides a chilling performance as Alcala, McDonald also depicted “gradations of toxic male behavior” in Hollywood through the characters of Cheryl’s friend Terry ( Pete Holmes) and Dating Game host Ed Burke ( Tony Hale), a fictional surrogate for Jim Lange. Ian is so prolific and such a good collaborator that he is so not precious about his material, sometimes to the point that I would be like, “no, no, no, put that thing back.” But basically, it meant that by the time that I started to have this bubbling thought about pitching myself to direct the movie, I’d read all these drafts and I was like, “Oh my God, I could go and cherry pick all of my favorite moments.
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