Anna Kendrick slams 'icky' director who embarrassed her in front of 100 extras

Anna Kendrick has blasted a head for embarrassing her successful beforehand of 1 100 extras pursuing an improvised scene.

After being asked nan worst statement she's ever received connected a shoot, nan Pitch Perfect actress, 39, shared her brushwood pinch unnamed head who belittled her aft they had asked her to 'making thing up' and spell disconnected script.

Recounting nan 'icky' infinitesimal astatine a unrecorded taping for nan Happy Sad Confused podcast, Anna said that nan incident felt for illustration a 'power move' connected their part.

She recalled: 'I retrieve a head erstwhile successful a room afloat of 100 extras aliases thing being like, 'Hey, connected this adjacent 1 conscionable effort something. Just make thing up. Just improv something.'

'And I did it and past nan head called trim and came complete and, erstwhile again successful beforehand of 100 extras, was like, 'Oof, let's spell backmost to nan script!''

 'It really felt for illustration a very circumstantial powerfulness move point to embarrass me, to summation dominance. It was very icky.

'And past nan point that I improved ended up successful nan trailer. So, f*ck you!'

While Anna didn't uncover nan sanction of nan director, nan unrecorded assemblage audibly gasped arsenic she shared her communicative connected nan episode.

Anna has starred successful complete 40 films, including Twilight, Scott Pilgrim vs. nan World, and A Simple Favor.

While she's had her adjacent stock of receiving notes from directors, she precocious made her very ain directorial debut for nan Netflix crime thriller, Woman of nan Hour.

Written by Ian McDonald, nan precocious released movie is based connected nan existent communicative of serial slayer Rodney Alcala and his 1978 quality connected nan tv show The Dating Game successful nan midst of his execution spree.

The movie stars Anna arsenic nan crippled show contestant Cheryl Bradshaw and Daniel Zovatto arsenic Alcala, alongside Nicolette Robinson and Tony Hale.

At nan clip of nan show, Alcala had murdered astatine slightest 5 women, and his quality connected nan section later earned him nan nickname, The Dating Game Killer.

In a caller interview, Anna revealed there's a peculiarly 'weird' infinitesimal successful Woman of nan Hour that she really knowledgeable successful existent life erstwhile she was conscionable 19 years old.

During an quality connected The View, she said: 'There's this segment astatine nan opening wherever I'm successful a casting office, and I stole small things from my existent life.

'There's a infinitesimal wherever they inquire maine if I do nudity and they make this really weird, circumstantial remark astir my assemblage that's lifted verbatim from a point that happened to maine erstwhile I was 19,'

The segment Anna was referring to occurs early connected successful nan movie erstwhile her characteristic Cheryl finds herself successful a Hollywood casting telephone successful 1978.

When Cheryl tells nan board she isn't comfortable pinch nudity, 1 of nan men stares straight astatine her thorax and says: 'I'm judge they're fine.'

Confirming this did hap to her 2 decades ago, Anna added: 'I was conscionable like, "Oh, do you guys mind saying this thing?" And I wasn't judge I was gonna support it successful nan movie but it's funny successful nan movie. We tin each laughter astatine my humiliation, that's fine, we're allowed.'