Anna Kendrick, who stars in the Netflix film Woman of the Hour where she plays Cheryl Bradshaw from the infamous Dating Game incident involving serial killer Rodney Alcala, recently spoke about how she claimed to have ‘forgotten’ one of her earlier iconic roles.
The multi-talented actress, now 39 years old, made a candid post on social media back in 2018, expressing a moment of surprise when she recalled being part of the Twilight saga, tweeting: “Holy s**t, I just remembered I was in Twilight.”
Kendrick featured as Jessica Stanley in three of the four movies – Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn: Part One, acting alongside Kristen Stewart’s character, Bella Swan, reports the Mirror.
While chatting on Call Her Daddy, a podcast hosted by Alex Cooper, Kendrick opened up about that tweet, stating: “A while ago, I had done a silly funny tweet….And people were like, ‘You didn’t forget that you were in Twilight.'”
She elaborated: “The answer is truly yes and no. Obviously I didn’t forget the experience of making the movies… 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.”
Kendrick has revealed that despite the Twilight series grossing over $3 billion at the box office, she often found herself ignored in conversations about its success.
She explained: “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.'”.
However, Kendrick admits feeling more fortunate than other stars, such as Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, in dealing with intense fan scrutiny.
She felt relieved not to endure what they went through, noting: “I was really lucky to not be dealing with the eye of the storm. You know? I think that a lot of the folks that were in the movie, even in the later movies, as long as you were a supernatural character, if you had one line, you couldn’t leave your hotel room.”
She didn’t face the nit picking some of her co-stars encountered either: “People were crazy, and people were criticising, ‘Oh, but she has green eyes in the book’, or whatever. And I just didn’t have to deal with any of that.”
“So it almost feels like I didn’t really have the gauntlet that…most of the other people did. I just had to show up and say dumb funny s***..It was awesome.”
This isn’t the first time Kendrick has opened up about her Twilight experience.
In an interview with Business Insider, she revealed: “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.”
Woman of the Hour is streaming now on Netflix.