Anna Kendrick says she had to pitch herself twice to direct Netflix hit 'Woman of the Hour' because she wasn't confident enough the first time

• Anna Kendrick made her directorial debut pinch Netflix's caller existent crime movie, "Woman of nan Hour."
• She told "The Late Show" that she was "beyond terrified" erstwhile she first sounded to nonstop nan film.
• She said nan producers asked her to redo nan transportation nan adjacent time earlier agreeing.

Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, "Woman of nan Hour," is getting rave reviews, but nan character told Stephen Colbert connected "The Late Show" that she was "beyond terrified" of taking nan leap.

"Woman of nan Hour" is Netflix's latest existent crime thriller. The genre has been a immense deed connected nan level pinch shows including "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" (the third most-watched series of each clip connected Netflix), "When They See Us," and "Inventing Anna."

These successes are conscionable 1 portion of Netflix's financial comeback. The streaming giant's stocks are soaring, reaching an all-time precocious of $725 a stock this month, up from 2022 lows of $180.

During an quality connected Wednesday's "The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert" episode, Kendrick said she signed connected to prima successful nan movie 2 years earlier they started filming because she had go "obsessed pinch existent crime."

Six weeks from nan accumulation commencement day successful 2022, nan producers still didn't person a director, and nan task was adjacent to falling apart.

The producers wanted personification pinch acquisition arsenic they planned to commencement shooting soon, but Kendrick told Colbert she had different ideas.

"I person this sound wrong of maine that was like, 'We should transportation ourselves to direct.' And I was besides going, 'Shut up. Everybody unopen up. We're not doing that,'" She said. "I couldn't thief myself, and I pushed myself disconnected a cliff and figured, 'Well, we'll find retired connected nan measurement down if I've packed this parachute correctly.'"

Kendrick joins a inclination of actors trying retired nan director's chair. Chris Pine, Dev Patel, Jerry Seinfeld, and Michael B. Jordan person each made directorial debuts successful nan past 2 years starring successful nan films they directed.

Kendrick said connected "The Late Show" that she had to make a transportation to nan producers nan adjacent time to seduce them to let her to direct.

She said she was "beyond terrified," adding "I was successful nan Zoom pinch each nan producers going, 'Here's my pitch.' And I'm benignant of half doing nan transportation and besides going, 'Unless you deliberation it's a bad idea, successful which case, let's not do it. I conscionable want to do what's correct for nan movie, you guys.'"

Kendrick said nan producers asked her to redo nan transportation nan adjacent time but pinch much confidence.

"It was a fascinating illustration of conscionable really phony Hollywood is because past I did it again nan adjacent day," Kendrick continued. "And I conscionable did, 'You'd beryllium fools not to prosecute me.' And they hired me."

"They knew that I was faking it. They person told maine to clone it, and they still were like, 'Well, that woman seems for illustration a leader. Let's prosecute her.'"

In caller years, Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks, and different celebrities person been vocal astir their imposter syndrome, a psychological condition wherever individuals uncertainty their abilities and fearfulness being exposed arsenic a fraud.

Valerie Young, nan cofounder of nan Imposter Syndrome Institute, antecedently told Business Insider that group who activity successful imaginative fields are importantly much prone to self-doubt because creation is subjective, allowing artists to deliberation that they tin ever do "better."

Young recommended: "Shifting your mindset astir competence — to cognize that sometimes bully capable is bully capable and moving on."

It seemed to person worked for Kendrick, who was connected Variety's 10 directors to watch database successful Janurary. "Woman of nan Hour" has a Rotten Tomatoes professional people of 91% and debut connected nan 2nd spot of Netflix's apical 10 movies past week.