The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The Movie

‘If I had to snog them I’m sure it would be fine,’ the Twilight actress giggles, ‘they’re both professionals. But there is something a little creepy about everybody going mad about how hot they are because I started thinking of them as relatives. It’s like the entire world talking about how hot your cousin is.’
Pah. So how about a choice bit of Robert Pattinson gossip, then? Kendrick rolls her eyes in a way that says: ‘Dream on!’ ‘You start to wonder how many times you can say: “He’s a great guy” and have it reprinted as: “ANNA KENDRICK TALKS R-PATZ!”,’ she says.

‘It’s like, oh my God, Twilight fans, this is so not breaking news. All I said was that he’s great. I’ve said it a million times before.’ She may be only 24 but Kendrick is already an old pro.

That said, YES Anna…it must be horrible to be kissed by your hot cousin*! *We do not promote kissing your relatives.

At the age of 12 she was the second youngest Tony Award nominee ever (‘I used to get embarrassed about admitting I was a child actor because it conjures up a kind of creepy, Children Of The Corn image’) and boasts an inbuilt poise beyond her years.

That poise is used to ideal effect in Oscartipped release Up In The Air (out on Friday). Indeed, director Jason Reitman (Juno) wrote the part of Natalie, a self-assured 23-yearold yuppie hired to teach George Clooney’s old dog new tricks, specifically for her, receiving a Golden Globe-nominated performance in return.
‘It’s amazing,’ declares Kendrick. ‘I mean, what other movies have 23-year-old girls in them where they don’t have to be sexy or romantic?’ Not many. One penalty is the lack of snogs with Mr Clooney, though – but as Natalie hilariously puts it in Up In The Air: ‘I don’t think of him that way, he’s old!’ Is that how Kendrick herself views her 48-year-old co-star?

‘Honestly, George seems like a teenager sometimes,’ she laughs. ‘He’s obviously so mature, incredibly intelligent and wellspoken but he was always goofing off on set, playing with Nerf balls and stuff. I felt I was more like his mom.’

Swaddled in a black duffel coat that endearingly swamps her delicate Paule Ka dress (‘they pay someone to make me look like a lady, I usually look like some homeless teenager’), Kendrick appears so very young and tiny I feel like I’m seeing her through the wrong end of a telescope.
Yet she still possesses an air of remarkable maturity. Hers, you sense, is a career that will develop long beyond those of her fellow Twilighteers. ‘This is a little embarrassing to admit,’ she grins, ‘but when I was about six I really loved Bette Midler.’

It’s an unusual, if canny, role model for a starlet whose non-Barbie doll looks and smartcookie brain have already led to her being typecast as ‘the clever girl’. ‘Worse things have happened,’ the West Hollywooder admits.

‘It’s funny, though, because the biggest, most visible thing I’ve done is Twilight and in that I’m the dumbest girl in the world.’ Next up she’s playing Michael Cera’s sister in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead). ‘I love British stuff,’ she enthuses.

‘I’m just getting into Alan Partridge and I watched The Office so much I found myself picking up mannerisms from David Brent – which is not a cute situation. I only realised because I started to make people around me uncomfortable but I sort of do that anyway.’

She laughs, self-consciously twiddling her Moschino heels, and says: ‘I’m a very weird, awkward person.’

You sound like every geek’s wet dream, I tease. ‘It’s funny,’ she responds, guiding us back to PG waters, ‘I was fortunate enough to get to visit the Harry Potter set recently, which isn’t even cool geeky. I mean, my best friend and I do an annual extendededition 13-hour Lord Of The Rings marathon but even that is cool next to Harry Potter. I don’t care, I love it. ‘It made me realise that’s how people feel about Twilight,’ she concludes in typically unfazed fashion.
‘Before that I’d be, like: “Really? It’s just Rob and Kristin. What’s the big deal? They’re great but why are you screaming?

(Source: Metro UK)