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Why Directing a Movie Left Anna Kendrick Feeling More Vulnerable Than Writing Her Memoir · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Anna Kendrick's directorial debut,
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Speaker 1: Woman of the Hour, tells the true story of a
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Speaker 1: contestant who unwittingly matched with a serial killer on a
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Speaker 1: TV dating show, and making the film, which she also
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Speaker 1: stars in, left her feeling even more vulnerable than another true.
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Speaker 2: Story she closely associated with her own. She compared directing
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Speaker 2: the film to writing her twenty sixteen memoir Scrappy Little
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Speaker 2: Nobody Telling Variety. Those might have been real stories from
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Speaker 2: my real life, but I was presenting them in ways
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Speaker 2: that were often glib and mostly designed to be lighthearted
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Speaker 2: and entertaining. Even though this film is not stories from
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Speaker 2: my real life, it feels dangerously revealing, like I'm revealing
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Speaker 2: something about myself in every frame, intentional or not. It's
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Speaker 2: funny because no matter what the subject matter is or
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Speaker 2: the tone of the film, you can't help but tell
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Speaker 2: truths about yourself. And that's nerve wracking. The words of
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Speaker 2: Anna Kendrick, whose truths were certainly well received, Woman of
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Speaker 2: the Hour claimed the number one spot on Netflix's Top
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Speaker 2: ten Movies
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