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ICYMI - Anna Kendrick Discusses Her Multifaceted Role in "A Simple Favor"

2019-08-27

Actor Anna Kendrick talks about the complex character she portrays in the mystery thriller "A Simple Favor" and recounts her minty onscreen kiss with co-star Blake Lively.

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See you now available wherever you get my guests, please welcome an account drake, it's a high terror. It is a high chair. Welcome to the show incomprehensibly yes m is for having, I feel like you should have warned me personally before this movie came out because I expected it to be another comedy, so I put Income inequality come in, come in now, like I am comedy, and then I just really disappoint people. That's what I was going. It's not disappointing thrilling, but I kept waiting for the joke and then I was terrified the whole time rates, because this is not a comedy at all. Now I mean there's hobbling moments where it's fun Yang. Yours smiling mainly by it's, not a big belly lap right. It's it's like you know, fund in the way they knew
funding, you're scared and your favorite characterise ninety dad. It's I don't know it's very specific type of fun. That's a very! Could cause a story so for those you don't know that the new play character, who is asked a favor and I'm among spoil any of the plot like beyond this point, because the movie really is dark interested your friend was played by Blake, lively, ass, you for a favor yeah. She goes hey. Can you look after my kid guess and then boom she disappears and there's like she just gone yeah yeah and it is very much like, but really she's gone like what's the plan what's going on, I guess she dead issue and it's just like, it's really freaky yeah it's. I know it better than sound like a lot to go on, but that there are so many twists and turns like there, and there is a plot beyond just she's gone and that's the end of the movie
Yeah she's, like we're just move, your people are starving in the room where issues regarding she's gone knows. It's really scary because, like because its with she tried to speak about without giving any thing away. It's it's an interesting story, because you you have this character, the duplex that should give them from everyone. You played yeah, it's well, it's it's kind of about like there's a lot of there's lots of plot twists and turns, but it's kind of about people kind of being more than what they seem right, and certainly these two women are more than they seem, and women tend to have secrets in their lives and Emily Lakes. Character has more have literal secrets and I think my character has more secrets in the sense of like her personality is really more than what it seems like she's, the kind of person you look out and you think you have completely figured out and there's a lot more
there's a lot more going on with her, and it was one of those tricky ones, because when I read the script, like my character is very very chipper, you know she has qualities. That, frankly, are you know in the real world or could have denigrated like a home bolt. She tries really hard and that's not cool, don't like that and who had always a home- and you know bleakest plainest character who has like the qualities of you know that are better kind of most valued and our society, which is beauty and style and wealth, and she has the sparkling dialogue as she's very to escalate. Right now, and so I was like there's a play when I was reading scriptwriters saying to the director puffy goes like
I have to get me something less annoying to do, because I'm so as to be the protection of the environment. The body is supposed to be on my side right, but the truth is like she acts the way that she does, because she has trauma in her life. Dungeon interesting corrections are play because I have read some people say like oil don't like your character, which, which means you ve, played her well, the as its will to be, and will you go like this is realistic. She super nice and yeah like everything and people who, like like yeah yeah like that she's nice yeah, don't like that she's nice. I like that she's cheaper and you know, and its funding, because there's like you know there, isn't a scene where she sits down and says, look like this is the way that I rise. I am this way but M, not really happy, I'm just like really chipper, because I'm afraid that if I show one crack all fall apart, complete
You know so it's like kind of my challenge was finding the moments to to choose to show that this is all informed by the trauma that she's been through and like there's there's this running thing in the movie where people are like. Oh you're, a saint, and I wanted that reaction to that too feel different from her usual place of light. Soft application of like all this dress. Oh no, not me now. I know drugs have felt like she was really uncomfortable and, like I'm not please don't say that brings us it up because like to tell her that she's a good person. She doesn't like that because she has real shame about some, but like the darkness and her past, Let's talk about a scene in the movie that everyone is buzzing about and that is you kissing lake lively people really upset about that yeah. It's a tough job. You now
professional. So I got through it rightly is. Is it is true that this was the freshest mint used kissed? You ever heard what I've you know. I've casts some dunes on screen and I'm always like freely self conscious, almost exceedingly avenant who's got lost, I'm using those little like labels, whisper things and staff, and the guys, like you ready. Let's do this, and this was like. Two women. So we were both like popping Mintz and gum and enforcing, and it was probably the mentally ill Yes, I've ever had meant just kiss onscreen yeah. That's gonna marry legal aid in cinema history. I like that. If someone looks out of this movie and they go like this so much to absorb. There's your character journey. That's the story itself, which is, I can't explain how twisted this movies, while giving anything away right. I just know that it was like cause. This
mean real life like so my unclear, we haven't even really well. What happened is my uncle extended uncle from my family? He did the same thing. He went came to a family function and ears are taken. You look after my kid and then he disappeared than has gone, and then it was like where'd, you go and then was gone for ever and then it was like photos more funding than your movie right. That's in Africa will I get it happens. So, like your noble, your movie is like it. It really early. Wasn't me I'm fine, I'm like here whatever words like thing, if man over another class where he lived, because you know their clothes like he's gone but but but the movie really is terrifying and there's a thrill of what are you? What are you hope is the one thing people would take away from them when they move to so many different plots interests that are happening when you walk. The movie. What do you want someone to think? What do you know? It's, my
I mean there's saw the plot is so great and it is so much fun but like seeing in promoting a million seeing their reaction to it. I've kind have been examining, like you know, different peoples of some people are more drawn to seventy, my character. Or more drawn Emily, and it's actually kind of made me wonder, like you know what are the, what The policies that I value like do I let people off the hook for kind of you. No bad behaviour if they are, if they seem beautiful and sophisticated. Unlike do I need to, more aware of what's going on with the person and that they might be behaving in a way that off putting, but there might be something going on behind that. Estimating examined the people you meet more closely because they might abandoned their in big I need to find Mongol and uses way in a fun scary, thrilling way. Thank you so much for being on the show how to care for everybody,
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