Anna Kendrick Opens Up About Surviving 'Emotional Abuse & Psychological Abuse' in Previous Relationship
08.09.2022 - 02:51
/ justjared.com
Anna Kendrick is opening up.
In a new interview, the 37-year-old actress said that she really “resonated” with playing a woman stuck in an emotionally abusive relationship in her upcoming movie Alice, Darling.
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In the movie directed by Mary Nighy and written by Alanna Francis, Anna plays Alice, “a woman stuck in an emotionally abusive relationship to her successful boyfriend, Simon (Charlie Carrick). To her friends, played by Kaniehtiio Horn and Wunmi Mosaku, Alice seems distressingly distant during a birthday trip. As Alice slowly unravels as a result of the mind games Simon has played on her, her friends try to intervene and help,” according to People.
While promoting the movie ahead of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, Anna revealed that she suffered “abuse” right before taking on the role.
“I was coming out of a personal experience with emotional abuse and psychological abuse,” Anna recalled to People about the first time she came across the screenplay. “I think my rep sent it to me, because he knew what I’d been dealing with and sent it along. Because he was like, ‘This sort of speaks to everything that you’ve been talking to me about.’”
“It felt really distinct in that I had, frankly, seen a lot of movies about abusive or toxic relationships, and it didn’t really look like what was happening to me,” Anna continued. “It kind of helped me normalize and minimize what was happening to me, because I thought, ‘Well, if I was in an abusive relationship, it would look like that.’”
While describing her former relationship, Anna said, “I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself. So when that person is telling you