Anna Kendrick opens up about humiliating director snub

When asked about the worst comment she ever received from a director while shooting a movie, Kendrick recalled a situation where she was embarrassed in front of about 100 extras. "I remember a director once in a room full of 100 extras or something being like, ‘Hey, on this next one just try something. Just make something up. Just improv something,'" the actress recounted.

After her improvisation, the director stopped the shot and, again in front of everyone, said, "Oof, let’s go back to the script!" Kendrick admitted that she felt it was a deliberate move aimed at humiliating her. "I really felt that this move was to embarrass me and gain dominance. It was very unpleasant," she added. It turned out that the scene she improvised eventually made it into the film's trailer. "And then the thing that I improved ended up in the trailer. So f(...) you!" Kendrick bluntly commented on the podcast.

The actress did not reveal the director's name or the title of the movie, but her story elicited strong reactions from the podcast audience, who responded with applause to her honesty.

Anna Kendrick recently debuted as a director with the movie "Blind Date." In an interview with "Variety," she spoke about her feelings regarding her new role. "It’s a lot easier for me to talk in extreme detail about certain moments in certain scenes, or about movies that were inspirations than it is to answer the questions that come up the most frequently — ‘Why this project? Why did you want to direct?'" she admitted.

Kendrick also noted the pressure of expectations on her as a female director. "I think there is a bit of an expectation that I speak quite eloquently about the unique experience of being a female director," she explained. "And then you're going, 'I've done this one time. I probably shouldn't be, like, representative of those kinds of big questions.'"