During a recent appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Anna Kendrick reacted to fans upset she forgot about her role in ‘Twilight.’
“A while ago, I had done a silly, funny tweet where I just said, ‘Holy sh*t. I just remembered I was in ‘Twilight,'” the actress said. “People were like, ‘Wait. You didn’t really forget that you were in ‘Twilight.’ And the answer is truly yes and no. Because, obviously, obviously, I didn’t forget the experience of making the movies.”
She continued, “But those movies, especially at the time, took on such a life of their own, and they were such a kind of, for better or for worse, a kind of touchstone. Such a reference that everybody would talk about trying to find the next ‘Twilight’ or whatever.”
“I would find myself in business conversations talking about, ‘Oh, yeah. I’ve heard that there’s a book series that just got optioned that we maybe wanna try and make it the next ‘Twilight.” And then I would be like, ‘Oh my god, I’m in that. I’m, oh my god,'” Kendrick added.
In the first four ‘Twilight’ movies, Kendrick played Jessica Stanley. Jessica is one of the few human characters who stays human. In the books, she is described as the ‘popular blonde volleyball captain.’ In the movies, she becomes friends with Bella, played by Kristen Stewart, and even gives a speech at Bella’s wedding to Edward, played by Robert Pattinson, in ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 1.’
“Almost everyone else in the cast had to treat every moment like life and death, good versus evil, our eternal souls are on the line – and all I had to do was show up and make a snarky comment as I kind of pass through the frame,” Anna previously said of her experience in ‘Twilight.’
She shared, “So I really felt like such a bystander to it in a way that I was very grateful to be privy to this kind of cultural phenomenon without it really impacting me in the ways that I think would’ve felt really challenging and overwhelming.”
Kendrick is currently in her first movie as a director, called ‘Woman of the Hour.’ It tells the true story of Rodney Alcala, a serial killer who was on an episode of ‘The Dating Game’ in 1978.
