The actress tapped into her own experience with a psychologically abusive boyfriend for her lead role in the movie, which she also executive produces, now playing in New York and L.A.
“I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself,” Kendrick toldof her past relationship while declining to name the former boyfriend she says was abusive.
“So when that person is telling you that you have a distorted sense of reality and that you are impossible and that all the stuff that you think is going on is not going on, your life gets really confusing really quickly. And I was in a situation where, at the end, I had the unique experience of finding out that everything I thought was going on was in fact going on. So I had this kind of springboard for feeling and recovery that a lot of people don’t get.
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