Anna Kendrick: 'Twilight is the weirdest set I've ever been on'
Anna Kendrick has devoted a chapter in her upcoming book to The Twilight Saga franchise because it was "the weirdest set" she's ever experienced.
The Pitch Perfect actress played Bella Swan's best friend Jessica alongside Kristen Stewart in the vampire fantasy series between 2008 and 2011, and although she didn't spend much time shooting the movies, it has provided her with plenty of funny anecdotes, which she is set to share in her upcoming autobiography Scrappy Little Nobody.
"They are just rife with stories. It was the weirdest set I've ever
been on," Anna said during an interview on Late Night with Seth
Meyers on Tuesday night (21Jun16). "I ended up devoting, because
stories just kept coming out, an entire chapter to just
Twilight."
She then retold her "favorite day of filming a movie maybe ever"
when she was flown down to Baton Rouge in Louisiana for one day to
play a corpse for a dream sequence in which Kristen's character
Bella imagines everyone is dead.
"All of these characters were in white and we got in this line and
there's this guy that's like the fake blood guy," she described.
"He's got this hose that looks like a plant mister and there's this
line of characters, like we're at the DMV (Department of Motor
Vehicles), so normal and casual.
"Each one of us getting lined up and getting sprayed down with fake
blood by this mister and then climbing on top of a pile and laying
there with our eyes open... I was like 'oooh, this is my job!'"
The autobiography is set for release in November (16) and will
contain funny stories on a variety of topics, both personal and
professional. She told Seth her editor suggested she added more
depth to the book but she wasn't so keen, joking, "If I had any I
would."
During the interview, she also recalled her recent press tour with
Trolls co-star Justin Timberlake, and how she realized she wasn't
famous in his presence.
"He is SO famous... I could tell every interviewer was like, 'We
gotta throw her one question' and then they're like, 'Justin, what
about your baby? What about the music? What about NSYNC? What about
the ramen noodles in your hair, have you seen that meme?' I was
like 'I'm not a celebrity.'"