Anna Kendrick remembers watching movies while in her own abusive relationship and never recognizing her own experience, which made her question whether it was just normal.
Anna Kendrick’s latest film, “Alice, Darling,” didn’t need an emotional abuse consultant. Its emotional abuse consultant was Anna Kendrick.
“Alice, Darling,” opening in Los Angeles Friday, was filmed in June and July of 2021, only six months after Kendrick received the script. But with the help of her therapist, a protective cast and crew, and director Mary Nighy’s offer to provide help if things got too intense, Kendrick felt safe. She explained that this was crucial, because when part of your original trauma is being invalidated, you want to surround yourself with people who understand.
“In an hour I learned a lot about Anna Kendrick,” Horn said, “and she learned a lot about me. Really deeply layered things that nobody will probably ever hear.” During the final stages of editing, Kendrick urged Nighy to “pull back” even further, recounting an early conversation with co-star Wunmi Mosaku about why they liked Francis’ script. “I said that I love that it really relied on Alice’s experience rather than cataloging evidence of the behavior from Simon,” Kendrick recalled. “Wunmi said, ‘But Anna, you’re the evidence.’”
In her own recovery, Kendrick said no amount of cataloging evidence — writing down dates, times, arguments and becoming a “detective in [her] own life” — could convince her that she wasn’t imagining it all. “To sit in grief and to believe my own body has been so much harder, but so much more rewarding,” Kendrick said. “I have to believe we can follow Alice and trust her, because that’s my work now: to trust myself.
One woman, a clinical psychologist, cried and said, “I think your film could save lives,” Nighy recalled. In the scene, Alice refuses to look at Simon, her eyes locked on her friend Sophie’s. “Sophie’s actions have just knocked me onto a tightrope of willingness,” Kendrick said. “Which was the phrase I used on that day, that I knew made me sound completely f— insane. I was like, ‘If I break eye contact with her, I will fall off the tightrope. This is a survival technique.’”
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