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Anna Kendrick Says Directors Almost Always Get This Wrong About Actors · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood, Ryan Seacrest and Kendrick will make her
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Speaker 1: directorial debut with the upcoming film The Dating Game, and
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Speaker 1: taking the jump from being in front of the camera
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Speaker 1: too behind it gives her a perspective not every filmmaker has,
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Speaker 1: and she realized there's a lot of misconceptions about what
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Speaker 1: many directors think they're allowed to tell actors. It's often
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Speaker 1: thought actors never want to be told exactly what to
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Speaker 1: do physically and would rather discuss what a character is
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Speaker 1: thinking and be allowed to interpret that in their own way.
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Speaker 1: But Anna says it really all depends. She tells Collider,
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Speaker 1: actors are treated like both insane divas and as these
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Speaker 1: delicate little eggshells. But sometimes an actor will think, just
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Speaker 1: tell me to clench my jaw if everything's working, but
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Speaker 1: right at the end, you should clench your jaw and
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Speaker 1: then it'll be good, tell the actor. Then there are
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Speaker 1: other scenes whereas director, I'll give you all the space
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Speaker 1: you need and we're gonna shoot until you're happy. Both
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Speaker 1: of those things are valid and as latest thriller Alice Darling,
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Speaker 1: which sees her in front of the camera once again,
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Speaker 1: is out now that's direct from Hollywood,